Spike It

I took Christopher to get a hair cut today. I specifically told the lady "no clippers, but I want it short enough to spike it."

Well, she followed the instruction of no clippers, but I'm not too sure he's got enough hair for spiking! (LOL) When she was finished she asked if I wanted to have her put anything in his hair, and I said I wanted to learn how to spike it. The lady put some gel on Christopher's hair and tried to spike it, not very successful. She finally looked at me and said "Well, his hair isn't used to staying up (not true, his hair sticks up when long), but as you keep doing this it will learn how to spike." I just wanted to tell her, yeah, it will spike once it grows back in and there's hair enough for spiking!!!

Anyway, he looks cute (kind of). Actually,considering his wild behavior, you would think he ran away from a juvenile corrections facility.

This is Christopher with his new hair cut!! It's a little spiky.

On a side note. I took this picture of Drew tonight and he looks so much like Christopher when he was this age. I think it's the big smile.

All About Christopher

Christopher has been talking a lot lately and I wanted to write down his words before the list got to be too long. Anyway, this post is mostly for my own information, since I know it’s kind of boring to read a huge list of words a 16 month old can say. In case you do read it “iP” stands for “in Portuguese.” I know I probably missed some words, so I’ll add them on as I remember. I tried to keep it to just words, not sounds (like uh-oh, yay …). He repeats a lot of words we say, but I tried to write only the words he uses consistently.


agua – water iP
all duh – all done
amen
Aplefur - Christopher
apple
baaboo (banho) – bath iP or when reading it’s Brown Bear
ball
be – asking us to sing “Jesus wants me for a sun beam”
beebee – baby
bubba - bottle
bubush – bubbles
bue or blue – if you ask him “what’s your favorite color?” he’ll always answer “blue”
byeye
car
Cheese-for both the camera and the food
chuchu – train
clock
coco – poop iP
cookie
Dew - Drew
dinner
down
ee up - clean up
eeboo – peekaboo
e-i-e-i-o – usually when he wants to watch a movie, or to specifically listen to Old Mcdonals
esse - this one iP
eww – ears
eyes
five (sometimes he’ll say 1,3 and 4 when counting, but I usually have to say those)
food
fower – flower
get dOWn
Guga – grandma Garrett
hat
hi
hot
how cooool (sun glasses are also called how cool because every time he puts it on I tell him “how cool)
how cuuute
hue – hair
I __ youuuuu – I love you (we say love)
I see you
lights
mais – more iP
Mamãe - mommy iP
mão - hand iP
mine
nanana - banana
não – no iP
nigh-nigh
okay
ouside – outside
Papa – grandpa Garrett
Papai - daddy iP
pe - foot iP
peepee – his privates
play
please
pop – ballon
ração (oração) – prayer iP
ready set go
sh** - shirt
shishi (xixi in Portuguese) – pee
shoes
shots - shorts
tan tu - thank you
teddy
tó - here iP
tss cold – puts the cold object to his cheeks and makes a “tsss” noise followed by the word cold
twee - tree
two
uck – stuck
up
Vovô – my dad
Vovó – my mom
watch
whasat – what’s that
wheggo – where did it go
WOW – usually when he sees a ceiling fan or when he finds anything amazing (like the garage door opening or closing)
you fufall – you’re going to fall (he hears this one a lot)

Refuses to say animal names, but can make the sounds. Animal sounds: meow, woof, roar, quack, baa, u-u-a-a (monkey), uuuh (elephant – accompanied by hand motion for the trunk).
On a not so related note, I took some pictures of the boys last night as they were ready for bed. They turned out kind of goofy, but since I haven’t posted pictures of them lately, here are a few.

Christopher was really happy when he saw me get the camera!!

Christopher took this picture of Drew and I think he did pretty good, even getting the baby smiling

House

This is going to be a quick post about the house because the baby just woke up and needs to eat.

I finally got around to taking some pictures of the house. We bought a 3bedrooms, 2.5 baths, plus living room, family room and dinning room house. I didn't take pictures of every room (too much work and not everything is nice and organized). For now this is what you get (by the way, I'm terrible at taking pictures, as you will soon see!!).

The House!!

Living room (you can kind of see the family room in the back

The master bedroom (I don't know why the picture turned out so red. No our room does not have pink walls! We actually just have one color through out the whole house)
These are the 2 other bedrooms. Christopher was asleep when I took this, that's why the door is closed.