Long time, no post

Peter is 2 now. Pictures of his birthday will be posted “soon.”

 

Anyway, Peter is making great strides in his development lately. He is showing a lot more maturity (relatively) these days, and is in the midst of the full-fledged verbal explosion.

 

We took him to get his hair cut on Saturday, and the times we’ve done that before have been less than pleasurable.  Each time there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Not this time. He sat patiently and munched on fruit snacks. He didn’t fidget much, and his eyes stayed dry the whole time. He was calm like that when we took him to the doctor’s office last month, too, so it’s not like it was just a one time event.

 

He went to church Sunday morning surrounded by a large number of other kids, and he sat quietly or played by himself for the bulk of the mass. The past several months had seen him being quite the handful in situations like that, but not this time.

 

He’s also saying new words every day now. This morning he said “blueberries.” He’s even constructed some basic sentences like “hit the ball.” He’s doing a lot of parroting. Yesterday his mom said something was fast, and then he said “fast” a bunch of times.  He hasn’t mastered all the sounds of spoken English yet, but he’s working on it. He still says “fra fra” but he will also say “choo choo” and a recognizable version of “railroad.”

 

Another sign of the new maturity is the honesty, or at least self-awareness he displays. He never would admit to being tired before, but now when I ask him if he’s tired he’ll actually think about it and admit “yeah,” he is tired when he is. Does he maybe want a nap? “…….yeah.”

 

I wouldn’t mind a nap…