Devin is 8 months old!!!

On the 3rd Devin turned 8 months old! Time just seems to be flying by these days!! He's such a big, very happy boy!! He can grin his way through anything! Nothing keeps this boy down, and I love that about him!! Now that's not to say he doesn't have his moments...cause he has more than his fair share of them! He's under this misconception that if you are in the room, you are holding him and loving him and playing with him...or else he is screaming. He is getting better lately though as I've started just letting him scream it out. It's hard to listen to him cry, but I know he's fine, and all he wants is to be held. He does like to sit and play on the floor with his toys, he usually starts by tipping his toy tote over, thus surrounding himself with toys. He still isn't up to the crawling challenge, but he's found his own way of getting around...it's a combination of rolling and scooting and squirming. He has managed to get up on his knees, he just hasn't figured out where to go from there. He's got super strong legs though, as he can stand holding onto something all by himself, and he's starting to walk holding onto just your fingers. Devin is quite the talker as well! He jabbers on and on and on...it's absolutely adorable! And he gets so excited when you carry on a conversation with him! He's getting better at the self feeding thing too...this is definitely motivation based, as he loves to eat! He devours puffs, and those mum mum treat, he's had bread and crackers and eggs and banana pieces. He far prefers real table food over the mushed baby food. He now has a whopping 6 teeth(4 on top two on bottom) so no more letting him teeth on our fingers...ouch! He is the funniest, most adorable little boy ever and we just love him so very very much! He's always making us smile and laugh...with his expressions and his melt your heart smile. Oh and his laugh! His laugh makes everything better and brighter and good! There is no sound in the world as sweet and pure and good as the sound of my children giggling! Devin absolutely adores his big sister! He always wants to be by her and talk to her and play with her, and luckily most of the time she wants the same. No one can make Devin smile and laugh like Elizabeth can...it's always been that way and I pray it always stays that way! I'll have to weigh him soon as I haven't since he was so sick, I know in the hospital he got down to barely 17 pounds he might have even gone under...but I don't know where he's at now. I know he's tall about 30 inches(he's incredibly hard to measure as he doesn't hold still for a second these days) but I know he was pretty close to that when they measured him in the hospital. I can't believe how fast he's growing! Here are his 8 month pictures, enjoy!











This is a video of Devin standing...it's the second one I took and the first is better but it was out of focus. So Devin had been standing for over 2 minutes at this point, hence the falling at the end.