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.

Bath, Peed on me, sitting, reflux

Yesterday I gave Peter a bath. Sharon usually does that. It's great. He's so excited to take off his clothes. He just starts fidgeting and moving his arms and legs everywhere as he's on the bed naked and knows he's about to get a bath. As I carried him to the bath, I suddenly felt my chest get warm. I realized he had peed all over me. First time that's happened!

Peter is sleeping at most about 5 hours a time at night. Usually around 4. When he goes from Midnight to 5 AM that's a good day.

He's also sitting pretty well, which is a lot of fun. He's very active and aggressively plays with toys. Sometimes he still gets fussy and seems to have reflux, but overall he's slowly improving. Giving him Zantac twice a day.

change clothes; happy baby

One of the things Peter hates the most is changing clothes. Putting those arms and head through is one of his worst fears.

In the last week Peter has changed from becoming an angry terror to a truly happy, smiley baby. He still sleeps poorly at night, but during the day time he is a treat. He smiles and giggles all the time to almost everyone. He has figured out the bottle and I think his body has adapted to the formula. It's a fun time to be a parent.