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.

Phoenix Zoo

I took the boys to the zoo today with some of my friends and their kids. I'm sure you're expecting to write how we had such a great time and how Christopher saw a ton of animals (...) Well, the least I can say is that the trip didn't quite go as planned. Here's how our day went (in chronological order):

1. Get to Rachael's house 30 minutes late (well, I'm usually late, so that's no biggy).

2. Drive to the zoo.

3. Get flashed by a dumb speeding camera on the way (and I couldn't even hope it was the person in front of me that got flashed because I was following my good friend Dana).

4. Pull over into a restaurant area because Christopher puked all over himself.

5. Clean the HUGE STINKY mess with no more than 10 baby wipes.

6. Get to the zoo and buy Christopher a t-shirt, since the kid is roaming around in just diapers.

7. Enjoy a total of 3 animals at the zoo because it's too hot to go any further. (We are approaching the end of September and still dealing with weather over 100 degrees in Phoenix. Does it ever cool down here?)

8. Walk to my car, load up the kids, put away stroller and bag, turn on the car. Oh no, my car won't turn on!!! Can it seriously get any worse?!

9. Have my friend help jump-start my car (thank goodness it was the battery or I would have laid in the parking lot crying at this point).

10. Finally, arrive home safely (to find 5 cop cars in front of my neighbor's house. Man if they were in front of my house I'm not quite sure what I would have done).

I think I'll stay home for the rest of the day and wait for my "little" dark cloud to pass over. I need to go grocery shopping, but I'm pretty sure that can wait until tomorrow!!

Hope your day is going a little better.

This one is for you Cory!!

My dear husband has had to put up with so much in these last few months, and I just need to let him know how much he's loved and appreciated!!

This week I was having a rough day with the baby and Cory called to check on me. As I went off on how the child won't sleep, I can't get anything done, I'm tired (...) he just paciently listened and then we hung up. That evening when he got home he had this beautifull bouquet with red and white roses to cheer me up! I was shocked and absolutely loved them!!!! If you know Cory, you know he doesn't usually give me flowers, which makes this so much more special and totally worth blogging about.

Thanks hun! I loved the flowers and I love you!!!

What's for dinner?

I added a new section to the right side of my blog. I saw this at a friend's blog and thought it was a good idea. I'll try to post our dinner menu for the next two weeks (that's why the different colors). Anyway, if you start one it will definitely help me too. Hope you enjoy!!
Oh and if you want a recipe, leave me a message and I'll email it to you.

Can I have some privacy?

Yesterday while I was feeding/burping the baby, Christopher decided he needed some quiet, private place to do his reading. This is what he came up with.I was quite entertained just watching him dump all his books out from this little book stand, get himself in there (I have no clue how he manage to fit in it), and then close the door. He did it all on his own! I was excited I was able to find the camera fast enough before he decided to leave.

Oh, and while I'm at it, here are some more pictures of Drew.