Peter Update

Peter continues to grow and learn more everyday.   He's a lego master and he's become such a good swimmer that he's graduated out of the program so no more swim lessons for Peter.   He was also accepted into Webster - the same academically accelerated program that the other three attended.  We're very that he'll get to be there too.

We bought him two lego sets to work on during General Conference hoping it would keep him occupied.  Well, the joke's on us - he did all 3 cars and two motorcycles in one session.  Not even half of General Conference had passed.  After that he broke them all down to individual pieces and rebuilt them from scratch two more times.

On St. Patrick's day I made leprechaun rocks and then had him hunt.  He found every single one and then got to dissolve them to find the money hidden inside.  He loved to watch them fizz.

Where you'll find Peter every day:

Christian wants to make an athlete out of cerebral little Peter.  This is his attempt to teach him basketball.  It went ok until he took a ball to the face.  Then it was all tears and over in a flash.

Ice skating lessons are slowly getting better.  He's picking up some speed on the ice and actually seems to be having some fun out there.

I find pictures like this on my phone nearly every day.  This one highlights his other constant - eczema, especially around the mouth.  Some lotions help but the only sure fix I've found is a prescription steroid cream which I only use when it gets really bad.

More lego creations.

He went to the dentist a few weeks ago and I had to take a picture.  His depressed stoicism was going strong as he sat like a convicted felon in the chair waiting for his execution.  Those sunglasses they give the kids were the best part.

This was after he graduated from swim lessons.  All that's left is the swim team but after training with them once, he decided he didn't like it.  He kept up beautifully for the first 30 minutes and was every bit as good as the other kids, all of which were multiple years older and much taller than him, but he just wasn't used to swimming laps for 60 minutes!  He's never swum more than a few laps at a time and his lessons are only 30 minutes with lots of breaks.  So after 30 min, he tired out and started hating it.  I assured him that he just needed to build up stamina but he wasn't having it.  "When I'm much older, like 7, maybe I'll do it again," he told me.  I guess we'll just swim on our own this summer.  I'm still so proud of this guy - in 14 months he went from hating water to swimming all four strokes fluidly.  I really hope he does choose to go back some day because he's a natural.

One of his favorite places is sky zone.  This past time he dared to go on the big slide that's always scared him in the past.  He rocked it.  It was so fun to hear his laugh as he shot into the air!