11 Months

For his 11 month Deven received (for better or worse) his two front teeth. I think I jinx'd myself earlier this month when talking with a friend that Deven didn't really seem to be bothered when his teeth came in...well it WAS true for his two bottom ones but apparently top teeth are different ball game. Deven is usually one happy camper most of the time (knock on wood) but this month was marked with some challenging moments; I mean opportunities to learn patience! I think it was a plethora of variables (tummy troubles, cold, changing nap schedules) that contributed to the challenge but as you can see we made it through this mini phase relatively unscathed.



















Deven's stats:

Weight: 21.8 (officially doubled birth weight)
Height: won't know for sure until next month but he is now officially on Nana's measure board.
Teeth count: 4 (I sware two top eye teeth are on their way)

Like:

• His baby walker
• making new sounds - shhhh, weeeee, raaaarrrrrrr
• computers - as we speak he's trying to clime my leg to get to the keys - one of which he broke already
• walking the perimeter of the living room - because he can hold on to everything
• guitars - still jammin' with dadda every night
• soft things - anything that remotely reminds him of his blankie gets a cuddle
• dogs - any and all get cuddles (see above 'soft things')
• kitchen utensils - a nice distraction as we make bfast, lunch or dinner
• swimming - we are off for another month but starting back again in July
• grass - we found out grass makes him calm, weirdest thing
• avocados - his teachers hold up his snacks of banana or avocado and he always chooses the avocado!
• giving high fives - getting super good at this
• reading - he actually sat in my lap for about five minutes reading one of his books over and over (a miracle)

Dislikes:

• colds - again!
• getting his diaper changed - see above discussions on opportunities for patience
• teething
• being told he can't do something - I have a feeling this will not end soon
• napping two times a day - we have changed to one a day a little early, so says my research, but I think it is the only way he will not get kicked out of school! ; )
• car seat - he has taken to getting extremely up set when being restricted in this manner
• over eating - a good thing yes but his way to tell me is to suddenly and without warning spit the food, with force, back at me
• hats - doesn't seem to like things on his head so we will have to get Velcro ones when necessary

New food:

• Cheese
• peach yogurt
• deli meat
• cucumber
• olives
• orange juice
• ravioli

I can't believe Deven is going to be a year old in a month from now. We are celebrating by going to the zoo today! Hope the weather holds, so far it is a gorgeous day in LS.