Head to Toe

Christopher's newest thing is to play and eat his toes. It's really cute, but sometimes it gets in the way. The other day Cory was feeding him rice cereal and watching TV at the same time. So in that split second he turned his head to watch the TV, Christopher managed to get his toes in his mouth. Needless to say, the kid was literally covered in rice cereal from head to toe by the time he was done eating!!! (I have to admit that this has also happened to me. You get distracted for a second and he gets his foot in his mouth.)

Here he is, full on eating his foot!!

(I know the picture is blurry, but it's nearly impossible to take a clear picture of a moving baby)

Oh, here's a little update of what baby Christopher likes to do:

eat his feet
kick NON-STOP when trying to go to sleep (my mother-in-law watched him the other day and had to hold his feet down so he could fall asleep)
roll on to his tummy (he's not so good at rolling back to his back)
eat rice cereal (he hates his bottle though)
play in his exer-saucer (Thank you JD!!)

Cleaning

I consider myself a pretty clean person. I clean my house once a week and I like things to be organized. But there are some things that I just HATE cleaning. For example, I hate mopping. Every time my mom comes in to town, it seems like she’s mopping my apartment for me. Good thing I only have 3 very small areas to be mopped.

Lately I’ve been noticing how dirty my oven looks. That’s another thing I HATE cleaning. So I gathered up the courage and cleaned the oven for the first time since I’ve been married!! (Wow that’s 3 years without being cleaned. Pretty gross!!) So, is there anything you don’t like to clean?

Happy Halloween!!!

Just a little preview of what our neighborhood will see this Halloween. Christopher the Penguin!!

(I know I am biased, but he's so stinking CUTE!!)

Roll Over

Christopher finally rolled over (from back to side) for the first time last week. Here's a picture of him after acomplishng such a deed!!

Brazil

So here are the promised Brazil pictures. He had a great time spending time with my family.

Us in my parents' neighborhood

My sister and Christopher

Eric (my brother's baby) and Topher. These two are only 15 days apart.

While in Brazil we got to go to a soccer museum. This is us with the King - Pele.

We had 2 family reunions. This is my mom's whole side of the family.

I still don't have the pictures with everyone from my dad's side, but here's us with grandparents (dad's side)

The four cousins get reunited!! We used to love playing together when little. (Now we love to chat, gossip and catch up on each other's lives when we are together.)

(from left to right: Cynthia, Renata, Me, Ruth)
My parents, grandparents (dad's side), and us

Christopher on the day he got his first tooth!! Yeah!!

Christopher and Ruth's son, Pedro.

Update + Tag

So I realize I’m really bad at this blogging business, but here’s a little update on our life. We just got back from a quick trip to Brazil this week. We usually go for at least a month, but this one didn’t last more than 2 weeks. Christopher was a good baby on the plane and in Brazil (which helped considering I was alone with him for all flights and for 1 week in Brazil). He grew his 1st tooth while we were there, and he’s just a happy little guy. I’ll post pictures sometime this week. Right now I’m just writing because I’ve been tagged by my friend Dana, so here it goes:

Answer the following with only one word.

Where is your cell phone?...................................purse
Your significant other?...................................... handsome
Your hair?................................................... complicated
Your mother?................................................... funny
Your father?.................................................... serious
Your favorite thing?........................................... food
Your dream last night.........................................forgot
Your favorite drink................................... water
Your dream/goal.................................. exaltation
The room you're in.......................................... living room
Your children?........................................... happy
Your Fear?............................................. death (losing husband/child)
Where do you want to be in 6 years?.................. my house
Where were you last night?................................home
What you're not?............................................ messy
Muffins?............................................ fattening
One of your wish list items?.................... pre-school (own one)
Where'd you grow up?.......................... Brazil
What'd you read last?....................... Book of Mormon
What are you wearing?............................PJ’s
Your TV?.......................................... off
Your pet?........................................ dead
Your computer?........................................Dell
Your life?........................................... interesting
Your mood?.................................. mild (?)
Missing someone?.................................. mom
Your car?........................................... white
Something you're not wearing?................ watch
Favorite store?.................................. (this is a hard one, it depends on what I’m buying) Ross, Babies R Us, Target (although I hate their return policy)
Your summer?..................................... HOT
Like someone?.......................... Cory
Your favorite color?......................... yellow (when I was little, today anything goes!)
Last time you laughed................................Today
Last time you cried?................................Today