The Off Button

Yesterday we went to Peter's Grammy's house to celebrate Grammy's birthday (one day late) and watch the Packers lose. Early in the afternoon we fed Peter his lunch, and like a good boy he ate it all. It must have been a lot for him because he tapered off at the end and could barely eat the last little spoonful. But once he was done eating and we cleaned him up a little, I picked him up and held him in my arms, at which point he began to fade. In no time his head started leaning over and his muscles went limp. It was as if he came down with narcolepsy all of a sudden.

It's pretty much out of character for him because getting him to fall asleep is usually something that takes some work. He has an active desire to remain up and to interact with the people around him. Granted, he hadn't had a nap earlier in the day, but for him to go from awake to deeply asleep while I was holding him like that is uncommon. He wouldn't even go out that fast when he was a newborn. Frankly, I'm looking forward to him doing it more regularly (just as long as he doesn't, in fact, have narcolepsy).

In other news, Peter & his mom went to the children's museum on Friday afternoon. Peter observed at first, but once he felt he understood the situation he pretty much took over his surroundings. He was in a padded area with a lot of toddlers, and he was his normal dynamic self, crawling, talking away, and reaching out to touch other kids. He was complimented for being such a handsome lad, which he is, but it's still nice to hear that from others. He also was measuring out to be about as tall as a good deal of the older kids who were walking. We measured his relative height against our own, and he comes up to almost the top of his mom's thigh and about the middle of my thigh. We did an imprecise weighing of him a couple weeks ago using a bathroom scale, and he came out at 21 1/2 pounds. So he's tall and he's got weight, and we know from carrying him that he's mostly muscle. He’s big kid now, and strong. Oy.