Christopher is 18 months old!

Time to celebrate another little milestone!

Christopher is 18 months old and he's the funnest little guy around! This past Sunday we had friends from church over for a BBQ. It was so much fun! We had Wendy & Tim, Eli & Celest, and Bob (Amy was at a softball game). And, in turn, they brought Kaynen, Avery, Noah and of course we had Christopher here. The cool part was that all 4 of us (Wendy, Celest, Amy and I) were pregnant together (we went to the same church) and our babies, i mean toddlers, are just months apart.

It was a blast to see the toddlers huddle around the ice chest, grabbing the root beer bottles and imagine them doing this in about 18 years with their school buddies! What a blast!! Even funnier was their hands, mouths and noses were bright red from the cold! They insisted on playing with the ice, sucking it, holding it, etc. And then we remembered that we had sprinkled salt on the ice to make it last longer!!! Salt lick!! It was all hilarious!

So here's my little "milestone" chart for Christopher. It has both milestone-type things and just plain old fun things that he's been doing recently.
Every morning he has breakfast with mommy (usually cheerios)
He feeds himself just fine, thank you, with milk dribbling everywhere...all the way through to the last drop which he feeds himself by picking up the bowl and drinking it!! Some days he'll have a banana or raspberries this particular week and he'll eat it all and then some. Wonderful appetite so far!

On most days we'll watch a few Disney shows (Little Einsteins, Mikey Mouse Club House, Handy Manny, The Doodlebops) or my other favorite PBS Kids (Curious George, Clifford & Sesame Street). I love it when he interacts with the charactes (he'll pat with Little Einsteins, wave goodbye at Mickey, or get excited with Elmo or Bert & Ernie!)

Adam and I usually pray before meals (:-) and Christopher wants to eat as soon as that food is in front of him! But every now and then, he folds his little hands together and pray...and then we all throw our hands up in the air as if to say "Woo Hoo"!! and say Amen! :-) It's so fun to watch him do that

Adam, Christopher and I are also big right now on floor wrestling, rolling around, tickles and more! One of our favorites is "hooey!", where we poke someone's belly button and it makes them jump and say "hooey"! It is hilarious! Especially when Christopher pokes Adam! :-)

And the sweetest part of all is the kisses. Adam and I love it when Christopher give us "besos". We'll ask him to kiss us and we know he only does it when he wants to...not always. So when he does want to, it's the best thing ever! :-)

Yeah, having Christopher is fun! So for now we're happy as a family of 3. We'll see where we go from here. :-)