look at the door and wait for mommy

I remember about 4 months ago I would try and put Peter to bed and he would cry and cry and cry and keep looking at the door. Turns out because the door was open he was waiting for Mom to come in and take care of him. When I closed the door, he was fine. That little brain figured out real quick how to recognize patterns.

My Little Monster

This one tells so much of Peter's personality! He is super strong-willed, smart and manipulative! He is the most strong-willed of them three. He can eat everything even chicken nuggets, that's right he ate two for lunch today without choking once. He still thinks that if I'm out of his eye sights I will never come back so the second I leaves him, he screams for me. He gets so jealous when I read to or play with his brothers, and he would try everything he can so I will hold him instead. Whatever you don't want him to touch or play, that's what he wants. If he really starts screaming, don't expect to calm him down until he is done. He loves to play Peekaboo but he usually covers his mouth instead of his eyes. He loves music, when he shakes his bum to the music is the cutest thing! He can say "mama" "dada", and I think he knows what power those words gave him. I especially cant resist picking him up when he pulls my pants to stand up and begs "mama". Love him, my 10 months old little monster! Can you believe he will turn one year old in 2 months????!!!

Desperate to grow up

Peter is desperate to grow up and be just like his brothers. He cries for table food, desperately wants to play with his brothers and always wants to be where they are. He is so determined and cute. Love this baby! 

Pulling to stand the very first time!

Pulled himself to stand for the very first time! Even though he fell sideways after like 2 mins, it was still ecstatic! He is turning 9 months old tomorrow. Looks like his brothers cant keep him away from their stuff for long!

worms

Got home from school early today. Started OBGYN this week and have been gone 13-14 hours a day. It's been a hard transition since I have been home studying for STEP1 for the past several months. I miss the kids while I am gone and am sad I have little time to play. Today I got home at 3:30 and was happy to spend the afternoon playing with them. Peter is crawling all over the place. Michael has quite the little temper but is quick to be adorable and loving. Enoch is the sweetest boy and so intelligent. I tickled Enoch and Michael to wake them from their naps and took them outside to pick the wild flowers in our yard. We gave them to an old neighbor family across the street. Then we planted some pea pods that I bought from home depot a while back. Weather should be just right for them. It was fun because it has been raining a lot recently and there were tons of worms in the compost pile. I think it was Enoch and Michael's first time playing with worms. They loved it. They weren't too afraid to hold them and let them crawl all over.

I feel so blessed to have wonderful kids and a wonderful wife.

Crawling!

It's so funny to see Peter following Enoch and Michael around the house and get locked in different rooms when they close the doors on him. Also, I kept finding him choking/chewing on different things that he found around the house! Even half of a ping pong ball?! Well, the last part is not funny, it's actually quite scary. I almost put him to bed without knowing that he has something in his mouth yesterday. Could have been a total disaster!

8 months

He is not crawling yet, but he gets on all fours sometimes to practice swinging back and forth and he can get around pretty well, by turning around, pushing himself backwards, or by... I don't know how to describe it but take a look at the third picture. He can get things pretty far and come back to sit again which is quite amazing to me. And may I add that he is so big that he wears 12 -24 months clothes and they don't look big on him.