Category: Firsts

We tried to take you to the circus today. We got in and you immeadiately hated the whole thing – we don’t know exactly what, the loud music or the darkness, and to top it off, the fireworks that scare you so much. Not even the horses and elephants convinced you to stay. We had to leave and luckily they gave our money back. Maybe next year…

You have been singing in your own words for a while, but today I could clearly hear the words, you sang “bubbles in the air” from the Gymboree bubbles song.

You are now tall enough that you can open doors. You just opened the pantry door (your favorite place in the kitchen). You loved closing all the doors and then asked us to open them for you since you could touch the door handle but not well enough to move it. Now we will have to pay a lot more attention to where you are going…

Daddy and vovô were working assembling a closet organizer and you saw the ladder they were using next to the wall. You kept pointing at it every time we went by, and Daddy decided to go near it with you to see what you were going to do. You climbed it! And didn’t want to go down or let go of it! I had to trick you to get you to let go, you thought it was so much fun climbing the ladder…I guess it’s a good practice for the playground.

Today we were outside working in the flower beds and we heard this song getting louder: it was the ice cream truck playing “Don’t worry, be happy”. You started to dance! When it finally turned the corner of our street, we went there to get some ice cream: you had some ice cream sandwich with Daddy and then shared Klondike with vovô. We’ll see if you will remember that the music means ice cream the next time around.

You were playing with your phone toy, which plays a song everytime you press some specific buttons (not sure which ones, seems kind of random). The song started playing and you were humming along!

Today we took you to your (overdue) first haircut. One of our friends recommended Cool Cuts for Kids, since they have lots of things to distract the kids while they are getting a haircut. We got there, you looked around happily until it was time for you to sit at the chair. It was a nice red car but you didn’t care – started crying immediately and wanted to get out at all cost. The lady was blowing bubbles, turned on the TV with the movie Cars, gave you stickers, but you didn’t even look. You just cried and clinged to mommy for dear life. I had to put you on my lap and then hold you while the hairdresser trimmed your bangs and overall hair while you moved your head non-stop. She had some skills. It was not the best haircut in the world but at least you didn’t get poked with the scissors, which seems quite the accomplishment. They usually take a polaroid picture to give it to the customers, but in your case, because of all the commotion, we ended up with no picture. They saved a lock of hair though…

You drank some water from a 1 liter bottle, because you saw me drinking from it. We normally put some water into the cap of your baby bottle, but you didn’t want anything to do with that; you had to have it from my bottle.

Today, we went to finish your Brasilian citizenship, and you wanted to walk up the stairs. So, holding both of your hands, you walked up about 4-5 stairs. I told mamae to get the camera and make a movie. When you saw the camera, you decided you want to go down, backwards. Then you went up and down the first step a bunch of times.