Peter is officially a toddler. Today he is 13 months and he's been toddling around for two weeks. He's also grown two more teeth: the fourth front bottom and one on the opposite side in the back. Isn't it too early for molars?!

Sunday seemed like a light switch went off and all of a sudden he was communicating more clearly and just seemed more with it in general. He signed and said, 'done' for the first time and was saying, "dad, dad" and reaching for Matthew. I've come to understand that his sign for 'water' is more of a universal sign for wanting food or drink. He'll stand in the fridge now and choose items out. He'll shake his head 'no' when he really doesn't want something. He'll wave and say, 'bye-bye'. The other morning he woke up and was upset when I wanted to get him dressed and change his diaper right away. He fought me and pointed out of the room and made some sounds that made me think he wanted to go see the boys. Sure enough, that was what he wanted. I took him to see Jared and Aaron and then he was fine and cooperated. He has a word for both of them, but I can't ever tell which one it is because they sound very similar.

Jared introduced him to "the Doodle" as we call it. It's that magnetic board you can draw on. He loves it. He can spend quite a bit of time with it just doodling. He holds the pen like he knows what he's doing and is quite intense. It'll be interesting to watch this develop.