Peter is pulling up and starting to experiment with cruising. This last weekend or so Matthew said Peter was starting to bend his knees and kind of attempt to take steps while being held. Well, today I was supporting Peter (he refused to sit down on the floor) a few (my) steps away from the piano bench. I could tell that's where he wanted to go and just to see what he'd do I encouraged him to go there while I held him up. He took several steps there and even managed to pivot his legs to turn away from the bench. It's crazy how fast he's moving (literally too!)
A couple of days ago Matthew said Peter was pulling up (or attempting to) on the rocking ottoman. He was successful on the side that didn't rock, but when he tried on the side that rocked it kept knocking him down. Matthew said he was yelling at the ottoman. It was kind of funny. Well, I began to notice him practicing on all the sides of the ottoman now. His determination has kicked in and he's mastered pulling up despite the rocking motion.
In the vocal department, he uses the 'm' sound when he wants me and just in the last couple of days started using 'dadada' around Matthew. Over the last couple weeks he's added 'p' sounds as well. I'll usually mimicking him when he starts up and say, "p,p, Peter". He'll smile and sometimes keep doing his 'p's and sometimes stopping. Tonight he was laying flat on the ground like in sit-up position and started reaching for my fitbit clip. I told him, "up". He smiled and recognized the command from Matthew having him do 'sit-ups'. Just to see what he'd do, I then told him "down." Sure enough he flopped down just as we have him do for sit-ups. We did this exercise a few times and then he started saying 'p' after we'd say 'up'. We think he got the vocal connection!
Today he moved the treasure box (whether on purpose or by accident I don't know) to under the piano. He was trying to get on top it while looking at the piano keyboard. I recognized him wanting to play the piano, so I moved to the piano bench and set him on my lap so he could play. He was quite happy with getting what he wanted :)
He also recognizes his food jars now. He was in the kitchen while I was gathering my lunch. I showed him his jar and asked him if he wanted to eat. He got a great big smile on his face and came out from under the table. When I fed him again later I started signing water, food, and more. We'll see how quickly he picks them up.
Peter is such a smart little boy! He amazes me with his intelligence and determination.
Oh yes, just another milestone tidbit - his second front bottom tooth has come in. It looks like one of his top canine teeth is working its way out now.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
I'm having a bout of insomnia. I woke up at 3 to go potty and haven't been able to sleep since though I feel really tired. The bed is getting too small for three people, or rather the third person is getting big and needs transitioned back to his own space. Since cutting dairy his sleep has improved greatly though whether it is due to the lack of dairy or just a result of where he is developmentally, I don't know.
Yesterday Mike and Tran watched the boys so we could go on a date. I wasn't sure how it would go for Peter. Usually he sleeps from around 9 to anywhere from 10:30 - 11:30 and we dropped them off about 8:45. Matthew and I hoped to make it to the 9 am session at the temple but we missed it by five minutes. We decided to do sealings instead though it turns out we could have done the 9:30 session (it is the only session on the half hour). Oh well. It was a wonderful experience anyway and we spent some time in the Celestial room afterwards. We were done by 10:30 which left some time to do something else (thinking we had until noonish).
I finally got to go to Ikea. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I liked it. Matthew and I were pleasantly surprised at how cheap everything seemed to be. He is on the hunt now for loft beds for the boys. It was busy in the store! We'd originally planned to take the boys back there after picking them up but nixed it by the time we were ready to leave. There is a restaurant in the store we were going to eat lunch at, but the line was long so we left instead.
At this point it was pretty close to noon so I texted Tran to find out how things were going. She said the boys had been fighting and Peter wouldn't sleep :/ I felt really bad. We were starving though so we stopped to get food. By the time we ordered and got everything together (another 30 minutes or so) she texted again and told me that Peter finally ate some food and fell asleep. We took a deep breath and enjoyed our meal in the car before heading back to pick them up. Just as we pulled into the driveway she said the boys were eating lunch and all was well again and enjoy the time. I - we- are really grateful for the time together, but I figured she deserved her quiet house again :)
Peter slept for a long time (and no wonder since he'd been up since 7:30). He acted/seemed kind of off the rest of the day. Normally he is really chatty and happy. He seemed more quiet and reserved. I don't know if it was just because he was really tired and off or if he was taking in our absence. Or maybe it was because he slept so long and after eating and playing for a little bit he ended up hanging out with Matthew in the bedroom for a long time while I helped Jared organize his papers. Peter took another long nap about 5:30 or 6. I thought for sure he wouldn't be ready to go back to sleep at 9:30 when we went to bed, but he did.
He is growing so much. We noticed he spent more time creeping then crawling yesterday. He's been experimenting with it the last few weeks but not making it more than a step or two before giving up and going back to his stomach to push off with his feet to move faster. It is so cute to watch him to try to coordinate moving his arms and knees. He's getting more adept. It won't be long before that is his preferred mode of transportation. Jared said he spent a lot of time in the walker and Mike and Tran's yesterday. At one point when Matthew had him he came out with Peter 'walking'. Normally Matthew has Peter's feet on his or pushes Peter's feet to have him 'walk' but he said this time Peter was bending his knees and moving two or three steps on his own. We were talking the other night that Peter will probably take his first steps by nine months but we can't put a timeline on actual walking. He has also been mastering the art of pulling up though he is not quite there yet. It is time to lower the co-sleeper. I think our house is not set up to enable a cruiser so that may slow him down a little in the walking department.
Jared has been keeping all of his math handouts and occasionally digs through them all to find the help for a math problem. He's needed a way to organize them and I promised him a few weeks ago that we'd put them in sheet protectors to make it easier. With Peter's long nap I was finally able to do that. It didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would and Aaron was happy to help too. I couldn't believe how happy it made Jared to have it done. We got them put in a binder and he carried that thing around! He even brought it to the table for dinner. It's always the little things that make such a huge difference!! He'd been struggling to get his math homework done this weekend but he worked on it while I worked on the papers. I think the scenario helped motivate him. It put him in a good enough mood that he even practiced the trumpet without any reminders. And even more amazing to me was after we sang and prayed he wanted to play even more (though he didn't get to). I am curious what time he actually went to sleep and what condition he is in b/c when we went to bed I don't think his bed was even made and he certainly wasn't in his pjs. I was too tired to wait for him though.
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We have been trying to figure out what to do about our lease expiring at the end of April. It is really bad timing for a move but we are starting to really feel the cut in pay form Matthew's new job and could use some give in our expenses. I recognized a couple of weeks ago that my spiritual habits were severally lacking and causing the Spirit to be lacking in my life as well. I have made strides with the boys' help to get everything back in order and it has helped tremendously. In fact, the other day I was praying about our housing situation and the answer came to stay. It is amazing the mind shift that happens when the Spirit speaks and an answer is received. Peace.
After some conversations with Matthew regarding his job and finances, I kind of feel like we are in for another change in October. Staying in our apartment would make it easier to allow those changes to work. I think Matthew feels the change coming as well. Several times today he's made comments to the effect that he doesn't like change whenever the word would come up in a conversation. He asked me if I could choose to live anywhere in the country, where would I choose? Would I choose to go back to the East coast? I told him I liked it there and would be fine going back but I am ok here too. I am not unhappy here and don't mind staying. I forget that it takes a year to feel settled in a place.
Well, it is a little after 5:15. I feel really awake at this point though I should probably see if I can get a little bit more sleep. Or get lunches ready or something in case I sleep in.
Yesterday Mike and Tran watched the boys so we could go on a date. I wasn't sure how it would go for Peter. Usually he sleeps from around 9 to anywhere from 10:30 - 11:30 and we dropped them off about 8:45. Matthew and I hoped to make it to the 9 am session at the temple but we missed it by five minutes. We decided to do sealings instead though it turns out we could have done the 9:30 session (it is the only session on the half hour). Oh well. It was a wonderful experience anyway and we spent some time in the Celestial room afterwards. We were done by 10:30 which left some time to do something else (thinking we had until noonish).
I finally got to go to Ikea. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I liked it. Matthew and I were pleasantly surprised at how cheap everything seemed to be. He is on the hunt now for loft beds for the boys. It was busy in the store! We'd originally planned to take the boys back there after picking them up but nixed it by the time we were ready to leave. There is a restaurant in the store we were going to eat lunch at, but the line was long so we left instead.
At this point it was pretty close to noon so I texted Tran to find out how things were going. She said the boys had been fighting and Peter wouldn't sleep :/ I felt really bad. We were starving though so we stopped to get food. By the time we ordered and got everything together (another 30 minutes or so) she texted again and told me that Peter finally ate some food and fell asleep. We took a deep breath and enjoyed our meal in the car before heading back to pick them up. Just as we pulled into the driveway she said the boys were eating lunch and all was well again and enjoy the time. I - we- are really grateful for the time together, but I figured she deserved her quiet house again :)
Peter slept for a long time (and no wonder since he'd been up since 7:30). He acted/seemed kind of off the rest of the day. Normally he is really chatty and happy. He seemed more quiet and reserved. I don't know if it was just because he was really tired and off or if he was taking in our absence. Or maybe it was because he slept so long and after eating and playing for a little bit he ended up hanging out with Matthew in the bedroom for a long time while I helped Jared organize his papers. Peter took another long nap about 5:30 or 6. I thought for sure he wouldn't be ready to go back to sleep at 9:30 when we went to bed, but he did.
He is growing so much. We noticed he spent more time creeping then crawling yesterday. He's been experimenting with it the last few weeks but not making it more than a step or two before giving up and going back to his stomach to push off with his feet to move faster. It is so cute to watch him to try to coordinate moving his arms and knees. He's getting more adept. It won't be long before that is his preferred mode of transportation. Jared said he spent a lot of time in the walker and Mike and Tran's yesterday. At one point when Matthew had him he came out with Peter 'walking'. Normally Matthew has Peter's feet on his or pushes Peter's feet to have him 'walk' but he said this time Peter was bending his knees and moving two or three steps on his own. We were talking the other night that Peter will probably take his first steps by nine months but we can't put a timeline on actual walking. He has also been mastering the art of pulling up though he is not quite there yet. It is time to lower the co-sleeper. I think our house is not set up to enable a cruiser so that may slow him down a little in the walking department.
Jared has been keeping all of his math handouts and occasionally digs through them all to find the help for a math problem. He's needed a way to organize them and I promised him a few weeks ago that we'd put them in sheet protectors to make it easier. With Peter's long nap I was finally able to do that. It didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would and Aaron was happy to help too. I couldn't believe how happy it made Jared to have it done. We got them put in a binder and he carried that thing around! He even brought it to the table for dinner. It's always the little things that make such a huge difference!! He'd been struggling to get his math homework done this weekend but he worked on it while I worked on the papers. I think the scenario helped motivate him. It put him in a good enough mood that he even practiced the trumpet without any reminders. And even more amazing to me was after we sang and prayed he wanted to play even more (though he didn't get to). I am curious what time he actually went to sleep and what condition he is in b/c when we went to bed I don't think his bed was even made and he certainly wasn't in his pjs. I was too tired to wait for him though.
*******
We have been trying to figure out what to do about our lease expiring at the end of April. It is really bad timing for a move but we are starting to really feel the cut in pay form Matthew's new job and could use some give in our expenses. I recognized a couple of weeks ago that my spiritual habits were severally lacking and causing the Spirit to be lacking in my life as well. I have made strides with the boys' help to get everything back in order and it has helped tremendously. In fact, the other day I was praying about our housing situation and the answer came to stay. It is amazing the mind shift that happens when the Spirit speaks and an answer is received. Peace.
After some conversations with Matthew regarding his job and finances, I kind of feel like we are in for another change in October. Staying in our apartment would make it easier to allow those changes to work. I think Matthew feels the change coming as well. Several times today he's made comments to the effect that he doesn't like change whenever the word would come up in a conversation. He asked me if I could choose to live anywhere in the country, where would I choose? Would I choose to go back to the East coast? I told him I liked it there and would be fine going back but I am ok here too. I am not unhappy here and don't mind staying. I forget that it takes a year to feel settled in a place.
Well, it is a little after 5:15. I feel really awake at this point though I should probably see if I can get a little bit more sleep. Or get lunches ready or something in case I sleep in.
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