its been soooo long!

          it's been so long since the last time i posted! here's my excuse... DEVIN'S CRAWLING!

and not sleeping through the night anymore. that part sucks big time but its so fun to watch him crawl all over the place! hes also pulling up to a stand on everything possible and looks like he'll start cruising furniture soon. he crawled and pulled up for the first time on the same night (5/29/10) and has been mobile ever since. we had to baby proof our ridiculously dangerous straight from the 70's house so now he has free roam over the entire upstairs.

 

i have no time at all to get on the computer for more than 5 minutes anymore so my blog has been neglected.  fabain has been working until 8 every night for the last week so that makes things extra hard and like i said, devin has decided the sleeping through the night thing is for babies and hes not one of them! he had slept from 10-11pm until 9-10am every night since he had been home for about 2 weeks. i think his top tooth thats about halfway there now is the culprit. its very hard to think about the fact that teething is just beginning!

not much has happened recently other than what ive already said. we did visit fabian's boss jack and his wife and daughter the other day. elisa is 5 months old and very cute. devin was very pleased to make her aquaintance!

they had fun palying. while elisa was in her walker, devin was on the ground crawling around her and he grabbed on and wouldnt let her go anywhere! it was funny...

oh! he also got his first bruise from bumping his head on the floor while crawling. it was very traumatic... for me and me alone. the bruise just faded today and it happened again, so now he has a slightly larger bruise in pretty much the same spot. im guessing it never ends from here?

ive been taking any free minute i get to create a huge scrapbook of devins firts year and plan on giving it to him on his birthday which is approaching very fast (6/23). it conatins about 10-25 of the best shots in each month he has been here. im very excited about completing it and plan on taking a picture of each page to blog about when it's finally done!

this time im not lying when i say i promise i'll be posting more often and i'll explain why in the next day or so ;) here are a few cute pictures, i have much more to say, but its late now....

happy 11 months devin!

ok, this is CRAZY! i cant believe this is the last month before my sweet little one turns a whole year old. im feeling quite numb about it all and im afraid im going to have some sort of a breakdown as the realization of next month's huge milestone sets in a little more. i've started planning an extravagent ocean themed first birthday party and its actually helping me cope. im pretty excited about all the little details that will go into it and will definitely go into that in future posts. i havent been posting much because it has been a rough week. well it started last weekend, but devin is cutting one of his two front teeth right now and nightime has been especially difficult. hes just very hard to relax and fussy pretty much always. hes still happy and adorable for the most part but its been tough. i cant wait to see that tooth when its a little bigger! what a big boy! 11/8 months old... wow.

we had a yard sale this weekend, it was kind of annoying, we did ok, but not great and still have lots of crap to donate or try to sell on craigslist. devin hung out in the pack and play. we had to cover it with a sheet because it was mosquitopalooza out there. we would turn our backs for a minute and people would be over there inspecting the goods like the whole thing was for sale!

here are some good ones from the last few days...

devin, feeding himself grilled eggplant. he LOVED this and ate quite a bit. he feeds himself very well now, its just challenging to figure out good stuff to offer him.

with grandma :) 

i love my handsome little sweetheart more than anything! hes just perfect. happy 11 months baby devin!