Peanut

Peanut celebrated his first birthday this past April. =)

He was born just over 7 weeks early and spent 29 very long days in NICU before coming home with us. (It's all documented here on the blog.)

In December we found out that Peanut has external hydrocephalus. That's fancy words for a head that grew so quickly that his brain began to make more fluid to surround his brain since his now bigger than normal head has a more than normal amount of space. Did ya catch all that? You can read about it in this post. The most important info is that we recently learned he should be out of the woods and not need any surgical intervention to correct this problem.

Peanut is eager for attention and loves to laugh. He knows how to get what he wants, which is called screaming. Or screeching. Or squealing. Pick your description because whatever it is, it's LOUD & will wake the dead!

This child is an eater. There is NOTHING he will not eat. Apparently eating is now one of his favorite hobbies. :) He is a really good eater though which is a huge relief to us seeing as we've been fighting with Little Man about eating for going on 4 years now.

He has zero words in his vocabulary but he makes a lot of noises & sounds so we're not ready to worry about that yet. He has an infectious smile that will leave you in a good mood, no matter what.

It's just amazing to see how different the personalities really are. Peanut is more agressive & demanding. Little Man just goes with the flow most of the time.

Maybe we should call him Linus since he's so attached to his blanket.

He is DEFINITELY a button pusher. He can't help himself when he sees a button...he MUST push it, lol.

Updated: August 19, 2009