Nice!

Nice, is what we have been trying to teach Deven this month. Well it was only in the last week that we started trying this method. Deven is a biter, a hitter and I am sorry to say very emotionally exhausting when he is unhappy. I am hoping this sounds familiar to everyone so that I can know that we are not the only ones! We love Deven greatly but he has entered some sort of stage that I hope passes quickly. It has been a few weeks now so...

I have gotten really behind in blogging this month but other than dealing with new challenges it has been a good one. The weather has been up and down but regardless we had are usually at a park on the weekends. Deven digs the slide (head first) and if not distracted by little rocks or pieces of bark, loves to climb up and down all the tires and jungle gym type stuff! He can say momma, dadda, bye bye, hi, and Nick has heard thank you a few times and when he says nice it is more like sssss (so polite). "Uh oh" is very common too!

Interestingly enough he loves trees, flowers and plants - even better he loves to water them. We bought him his own watering can and once set to watering we are hard pressed stop him.

In the last month he has really grown up into a little man - no baby food and no bottles. He weighs over 24 pounds now and picks his own stories for bed time. He ate an apple...without me chopping it up...I know...I was equally as ecstatic. Seriously though, this is such an exciting time. All the milestones almost overshadow the daily incident reports from school...almost.

So future Deven, we love you but sometimes it is really great they you go to bed at 7!! ; )

9 Months

Deven turned 9 months this last week. His official check up is Thursday but I thought I would get in some pictures of one of his favorite activities, crawling.

Last month he was definitely getting around but it was more of an Army crawl of sorts. This is full fledged. He also continues to pull him self up onto everything and has started practicing "cruising." He doesn't quite realize just how far he could go around the coffee table but he does realize that if he leans along the table he will eventually land near the toy he has his eye on. We had a sick free few weeks until this week but thankfully it seems to have come and gone within just a couple of days and NO nebulizer (cross your fingers).

Hmmm, what else can I brag about??

He still says Momma and Dadda but I am still not convinced he actually associates Nick or myself with the words. Dadda seems like it will be his first word when it does happen though. This month Deven has tried a few more "real" foods...asparagus, spaghetti pasta, tai rice, potatoes, mini orange slices and a tiny piece of strawberry...nervous about this last one and his tummy didn't seem to appreciate it either...maybe in a few months when "they" say it is safer to give babies more citrus fruits.

Stats as far as we know (officials to come) are ~29 inches and ~21lbs. He has officially started into his 12 month cloths, thanks to everyone who got Deven outfits for a year out at his shower!!