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8 Months Old

By Kimberly, on February 19th, 2009%

So much to write about! Peter turned eight months old yesterday and he’s now 20 lbs and 28″ long. What a big boy

It was such a nice day out yesterday that we did most of Peter’s photos outside. His “official” eight months photo below was taken inside our barn. We also got photos of him in the tree (Mike’s holding him with him arm behind a tree branch), standing up and holding onto the fence and several inside. You should go check them out here!

As far as changes for Peter, we’ve got a big one! He’s crawling! Grandma & Grandpa Johnson were up visiting this weekend and got to see him do it for the very time. It was his way of celebrating Valentine’s Day I think. It’s slow but it’s crawling, you can see a video of that here!. He’s already gotten better at it since that video was taken!

He’s also trying to pull up and can get himself up on his knees but can’t quite stand all the way without our help. Once he’s up he’ll stand with just one hand on the furniture and will let go completely for several seconds before grabbing at it again when he starts to fall. It’ll be time to lower his crib really soon it looks like!

He’s also starting to get better in the church nursery and actually seems to be having some fun with the other kids now. He gets a little upset when we drop him off but that’s normal at this age.

I can tell that he’s really starting to understand more words now. He responds to his name nearly every time he hears it now instead of just when he feels like it and starts looking around for Mike when I say Daddy. He’s also starting to grasp the idea of the word “no” and gets all flustered when I tell him he can’t do or can’t have something. Luckily his attention span is short enough that I can usually distract him after stopping whatever forbidden activity it was and avoid a total meltdown.

His favorite distraction right now is music. Although he prefers to listen to Mike and I sing to him, he also loves listening to Mp3′s of children’s songs on the computer and playing with his little piano. Maybe he’ll be a musician!

Picture Peter at 8 months

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Houston Visit

By Kimberly, on February 6th, 2009%

It’s been a busy few weeks just full of little things and events. Weekend before last we had a chance to down to Houston to visit family. Cousins Chris and Jess were in town from Peru with Joshua and Peter had lots of cousins to play with. You can view some photos from that trip here. There are new photos in the eighth month album too.

We had a good time being with family but I was sick most of the time . Poor Peter caught my cold and wasn’t his at his best, but other than not sleeping as well for a couple of nights, he seemed to do alright. The weather constantly changing up here hasn’t helped with his congestion or mine either, but we both feel much better now!

Peter’s so close to crawling now but still not quite there. He can move around the room by rolling and scooting really easily and has sat up on his own three or four times. I keep thinking it’ll be any day that he’s officially crawling!

He shows more personality every day and has his favorite toys, people and foods. He can actually push on his scooter now and loves to rip paper and play peek-a-boo. We have scooter and paper tearing videos up, but still need to take a good peek-a-boo one!

I think my favorite thing he’s doing now though has got to be reaching for me and Mike. He lets us know how when he wants to be picked up and snuggled and it’s so sweet!

Even though he still has no teeth he’s determined now to feed himself! We started giving him cheerios for him to pick up and put in his mouth. He picks them up and “chews” them methodically with his little gums. So cute!