Peter and electronic communication

Pete really likes to talk. He knows the sound of the telephone ringing, but also the ring for when Skype. I did catch the beginning of his anticipation here as we were waiting on Grandma to pick up on Skype. His eyes light up, and if he is across the room, he crawls as fast as he can to the computer when that ring starts going!


One of his favorite toys is the telephone. I think it might be because the noise the buttons make when he press them. Though now he has taken up press buttons on the phone, then start talking to it. It is very cute! Our little guy is such a social butterfly. That or he just loves the attention.

A walk down memory lane

I enjoy seeing early pictures of Pete, so I thought I would share a few of them with you. It seems unreal in a way that he is over 9 months old!

Wandering Pete

Pete is loving his new found mobility. Yesterday, I saw him crawl out of the living room. Normally, he makes a bee-line for the paper bag ready to be shredded. After a few minutes of quiet, I wondered where he was. I looked around and saw him in the kitchen playing by the dishwasher. He figured out how to get the magnet off the dishwasher door. He was happy, so I finished what I was doing. I walked around to where he was and noticed he was gumming something. Great, he found something on the floor. I thought I had cleaned it that morning. As I went to get whatever it was out of his mouth, he kept shaking his head and not letting me get into his mouth. A little battle ensued, I was able to get my finger inside his mouth. Upon which he clamped down (thankfully no teeth yet) on my finger. I fished out a piece of orange peel. Can't image that must have tasted very good.

Bubbles

Sorry for the poor quality...but thought you'd enjoy seeing Pete convincing me he is not sleepy.

Can't believe that it is almost the end of January

So, I have been really lax on posting on this blog. Been adding more to Facebook than here. Peter is growing like a weed. He has his first real cold right now. Been told that babies will have 10 colds their first year, and I am hoping Peter is the exception. A cold is no fever, a runny nose and cough. He doesn't like getting his nose cleaned out, but it has to be done.

In the past month he has discovered squealing, and is laughing a lot more. He can pull himself up from a 30 degree angle to a sitting position (holding on to our fingers). And he is standing and squatting more when we are holding him. We are working on rolling over. At his last check up (Dec. 30) he weighed 13 lbs. and was 24 in. long.

Here is a clip from Christmas time of Peter meeting his great grandpa for the first time.

Peter Playing

Pete curled his arm around the bear when I put it next to him. Though he really didn't acknowledge that it was there. His pants have a hard time staying on him, unless he is wearing a thicker cloth diaper. They kept wanting to come down.



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Pete and his toys

Last night, I was doing some moving in Pete's room, and one of things I rearranged was his stuffed animal collection. We introduced Pete to 2 of his toys the bear and monkey. I loved his expression as he came in to contact with the little monkey.

If we get more snow today, we may get some more pictures with Pete and I outside. We'll see (and yes I will bundle him up really well!!).