Catching Up

It has been so long since the last posting that many things have
happened. Devin is walking up a storm. He is practically running.
Daycare insists that the only reason he didn't walk sooner was because
he wanted to learn to run not walk. This was a fun milestone to see,
it was the first physical one that Devin wanted to do verses being
coaxed through physical therapy.  Now he is a monkey climbing on
everything.

We have also reached the mimic phase both verbal and physical. His
favorites are:
- talking on the phone and anything can be a phone
- 'puh'ing, this is where something round is in your mouth and it gets
spit out projectile like. Favorite 'puh'ing items are small balls,
blueberries (I think he actually calls them puhs), and grapes.  This
is not something that is encouraged but is pretty funny.
- throwing balls, well we are trying hard to limit this to balls
anyway. He'll walk around the living room saying ball until we find
him one. We are practicing catch but the catching  part is hard.

Devin still refuses to say ma or da to our faces but seems to say them
when the said person is not around. He gets very frustrated when we
don't know what he is saying. We are getting better at it. Realizing
that ma-na was monkey (for monkey paci) was a huge break through.
Although we are trying to hide monkey now that he is older.

Jeff and I have started the process of looking for houses to buy. It
will take a while to find the perfect house but we have till the end
of the year so no real hurry.  I want a park nearby and Jeff wants an
awesome kitchen. I believe we can obtain this perfection if we are
patient.

The forth of July was fun going over to friends for a BBQ. Devin got
to play with his friend Julia and at the end of the day even got a
kiss. The best part was the smile that he had all the way to the car.
We'll have to watch this one he is a super flirt.

See picassa for pictures!