Catching up...

I notice I haven't posted anything since the end of July. We've been busy, but there are some Peter tidbits to report.

He's 15 ½ months old now, and like a teenager he gets moody. We think it has to do with growth spurts and teething, but he gets cranky a lot more easily now. It might also be that his energy levels are adjusting to a one-nap-a-day cycle.

He went to his cousin Ethan's 5th birthday party in Madison over the weekend and ran around and played most of the day Saturday. He also partied at Irishfest Friday night. Sunday saw a lot of activity, too. All of that added up into an epic crash Sunday night around 7:00-ish. We had to change hs diaper at about 9:30 that night, and boy was he not thrilled about that. It's bad enough that he rarely lies down for a diaper changing, but add in being extremely tired and irritable and you have a diaper changing that probably annoyed the whole neighborhood.

He's also gotten back into screeching again. Repeatedly. I think the pitch of his voice might be lowering a little, but the shriek is still piercing. Especially in the car.

Peter has a doctor's visit this Saturday morning. We're very curious to find out what his measurements are and the percentiles, too. I'm betting his height and head size will be high on the scale, and his weight trailing behind. While he feels heavy when we haul him around, he's lean, so I'm thinking there are shorter, pudgier kids who probably weigh more. But he's tall with long limbs, and he's grown out of his shoes and hats, so he's pretty much getting bigger by the day.

We also know he's smart. First he figured out how to wiggle out of the arm straps of his car seat, and after we tightened them so he couldn't do that any more he just figured out how to undo the buckle that held them together.

We also took him to the State Fair a couple weeks ago. He got excited to see the livestock, but it was the chickens and rabbits that really got him pumped up. Probably because he isn't something less that 10% of the size of a chicken or bunny. But there were some chickens with funky feathers, so he probably found them more engaging than a heifer chewing on straw.