What's new in the past week is that Peter's walking as much as he can. Although he started in January, now he's walking more than crawling, and likes to walk laps around the house, especially holding on to a big person's finger or thumb. He leads.
We also installed black-out blinds in his bedroom, and moved his bedtime from 7 pm to 8 pm as part of a plan to improve his sleeping. It's worked quite well. He's not too cranky before bedtime (we've been entertaining him with home renovation projects: papering the inside of kitchen cabinets, installing blinds), and he manages to sleep through until 5 when he has his first breakfast, then back to sleep until 7 or so. What a relief.
Something else that's new is that Peter's been talking much more, or rather imitating in most cases. He's saying ba-ba again (bye-bye) spontaneously, and da-da of course, and then some other syllables that sound like hot and cold (ot, old), thank you (I can't quite spell this one, it's more like a two syllable grunt), and all done (a-da). These are real words. Then there is lots of repitition (spontaneous though) when he hears a word in our conversation, or when we speak to him. He seems to speak a lot on some days, and not so much on others.
His first birthday is in a few weeks. I'm torn about party plans. I want to do something special and fun, but also something that won't leave either of us frazzled and worn out. We also have lots of friends with babies around the same age or a bit older, and we'd love to include them in celebrating. Maybe two parties? A tea party for babies and mummies one day, then dinner for the grandrelatives and cousins from out of town. Either way, theme parties can wait.
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