Christopher Day

This blog entry is totally to celebrate the little boy human entity named Christopher J. Hood.

You know how your parents always ask you when you're going to start manufacturing humans when it's clear you don't have the investment capital and your production facilities aren't remotely close to being well staffed enough for such an endeavor? Well, they want to urge you to manufacture a human at any cost, and to do it quickly, because manufacturing a human was one of the best things they ever did, even though they are, admittedly, a little bit disappointed in how their human turned out.

Yes, eventually, everyone's humans become scowly and old and bark into their cell phones and wear bad shoes, but it doesn't matter, because when their parents look at them, all they see is pajamas with feet. With that in mind, I'm just going to go list my human, Christopher's progress before his 22nd month birthday coming in 13 days.

1) walking (since 9 months old)
2) running and crawling (if he feels like it)
3) understands words i.e. no, outside, yes, done, okay, come on, thank you, love you, smart baby, dance, jump, diaper, change, kiss, fish, dada, mommy, mama, owie (it hurts--or pretend hurt), big black (vacuum cleaner), hug/big hug, pee-pee, we're done. Commands such as : sit, be good, eat, drink, stop, no, clean up, light off, light on, can I have ___ (filled in objects you need).
4) can say words i.e. eeewww, owie, shoe, ball, love, no, okay, ya, fine/fun, fish, kiss, apa (Indonesian for: what, but he's calling my dad 'apa' because it's close to 'opa'--Dutch for grandfather), ema (Indonesian for: mom, but it's what he calls my mom 'ema' it's close to 'oma'--Dutch for grandmother), 'hi (fish, mommy, dada, apa, ema, la-la, po)' , tubby (if he wants to watch teletubbies), la-la & po (his fave teletubbies character), nanoo (the teletubbies' vacuum cleaner), more (food/drink), ba-ba (milk), wa-wa(water), juice, cheese, count 1 to 5, sometimes to 6 or 9, a-b-c, pee-pee, geico, good to go, dirt, kitty, doggie, duckie, bunny, tree, bye-bye, yayyy, wheeee, wow, cool, nice, yummy, are we done?
5) dancing (strangely enough most attracted to rap music beat)
6) jumping
7) throwing balls (rarely catching it)
8) changing television channel manually so he can watch cartoons
9) climbing up and down bed, chair,
10) opening and closing closet/door (also locking and unlocking--both Michael and I have been locked out before by him)
11) turning the light on and off
12) brushing his own teeth
13) throwing tantrum (quite) safely, he decided when he's upset to go to the carpeted area where he can slowly fling himself on it, pursing his lips defiantly then whine/cry (tearless) pretty loudly until he's distracted.
14) falling asleep by himself, and picking up blanket and bottle by himself before going to sleep
15) seeing you out (waving and saying bye-bye when you need to leave)

My current mision: getting him potty trained, he understand now the word "pee-pee," and he always says that after he did it and wanted to be changed...

There you go. I may add on as I see things progressing.



Love,

His mommy