10 Months

Hi Devy Boy!

Last month was an intense one! We had lots of adventures, time with friends and cousins, and lots of travel. You are definitely a social kid, and brought smiles to others everywhere we went. You wave to everyone now, including the dogs.

Early in the month you came down with Hand, Foot, and Mouth which was fortunately incredibly mild, but showed up along with your first major diaper rash. Based on advice from the nurse we spent a couple of days away from other kids, and you took lots of tubs and had as much naked time as possible to help your rash get better. For being "sick", you seemed blissfully unaware that anything was wrong, which meant we had some amazing uninterrupted Mommy/Devin time. We snuggled, we played, and you tubbied it up! While there was some extra work involved in taking care of your rash(es), I had a great excuse to just be home and enjoy you. I know that as you get older I will cherish that weekend so much!

You were definitely starting to teethe, even though nothing had poked out by the time you hit 10 months. Spoiler alert though: you have a couple of bottom teeth finally coming in now!!

You are crawling all over the place these days, and constantly standing whenever you can pull yourself up to something. In fact, while we were in Utah you pulled yourself up and let go a couple of times, standing for 10-15 seconds all on your own!

You love to play with other kids. You had such a great time with your cousins while we were in Utah, and you also learned to roll the ball with Mimi, and of course climb all over the Devin-sized couch.

You got in a lot of water time this month, playing in the backyard baby pool, and taking a trip to the lake with Mimi and Papa while we were in Utah. You rode in a boat for the first time, and even took a couple of rides on the wave runners. I was worried you would be nervous, but you almost fell asleep when I took you out for a ride. Clearly mom doesn't get too crazy (even when she doesn't have a Devy boy along for the ride).

You eat pretty much anything (except bananas since they seem to make you sick). You especially love food that is on someone else's plate. You still eat most foods from a squeeze pack (cereal is totally unappealing in any other form), but you like things you can eat with your hands (unfortunately this is not limited to food), and will eat off a spoon when we all eat together. You also discovered snow cones while we were in Utah, and I think Bryn hardly ate any of hers between sharing bites with you and Aria. You tried lemonade for the first time and LOVED it, although you made hilarious faces after each drink.

You also love to dance and "work" on the computer, or anything that someone else is working on. I finally found a great app for the computer so you can play on the keyboard without doing any damage.

Although I have taken the scissors to your hair a few times, you got one of your first real haircuts this month. There's not a lot of hair up there, but it's definitely growing and getting thicker by the day.

Every day is such an adventure with you in our lives Devin. In the mornings I walk in to find you smiling and laughing, jumping with excitement to see me. Then we quietly sneak back into our room and you can't climb over the blankets fast enough to get Daddy. All the tiredness melts away in moments watching you start to explore each new day. I love your smile, your laugh, your big, blue inquisitive eyes, and basically every little bitty bit of you! This has been an incredible year, and we can't wait to see what the rest of it brings.

xoxoxox,

Mom and Dad