What an amazing year. Zevry, you changed my life so much, and I am so grateful you are part of our family. I never would have thought I could love you more than I did the first time I felt your little heartbeat against my chest, the first time I felt your soft skin, or smelled your sweet little head. In fact, there have been so many firsts this past year, I can’t even begin to list them all. You’re the best baby in the whole wide world and I …

Every night, right before he goes to bed, Zev gets a full body massage (lucky him). Its nothing too fancy – 5 minutes or so where we talk about our day and connect before he goes to sleep. His job has always been to hold the massage oil bottle.
Zev and I were cleaning up his toys in his room today when he spied his bottle of massage oil. He grabbed it and handed it to me. I thought he was helping me clean up, so I put it on the …

Zev has been really interested in birds lately. We go swimming a few times a week and then sit out in the shade and wait for the hot air to dry us off. While we do that, a lot of birds fly overhead. They fly from tree to tree, and sometimes land on the roof or the ground. A few weeks ago, Michael was holding him the pool and he pointed in the air and said bird one time, but then he didn’t say it again. He also made the …

Zev got his 3rd tooth today! Top left finally poked through this morning. I swear, it has been coming down the pipe for a month. His bottom two came in without much trouble, but these top two were just monsters. I think a lot of the pain should be relieved once the other one cuts through. Poor little guy has been wreck – his sleep is messed up, his eating has been altered… everything has just been wrong! Hopefully this gets him back on track.

So Zev got his first haircut. He was looking quite wild and woolly and I think he was scaring the other children. I decided to give him a little trim, and it seemed silly to take him to a barber shop or even one of those kids haircut places. His hair was about a million different lengths and was starting to grow over his ears, so I really just wanted to trim the edges and make his top hair short enough that his shampoo mohawk could actually stand up. He …

At 10 months and 3 weeks, Zevry took his first steps! Not sure if I should be glad or scared – a little of both perhaps. They were very, very shaky steps, but he did it! He was standing holding onto a low chair and I was about 3 feet away from him. He let go of the chair and stood by himself for about 20 seconds and then he got this big grin and he took about 3 steps toward me and then fell down into my lap. He …

Just a quick entry here in case I forget to jot this down somewhere. Zev’s been saying Mama for a few weeks now, but he also just started to say “Buh” and “Dog.” He does “Buh” when he waves and I think it might mean bye. And “Dog” is dog. His pronunciation is less than perfect, but he is a baby after all.

I read somewhere that around the 9 month mark, your child will amaze you almost every day with something new. This is most definitely true for me! Zevry has been doing all these great new things lately – I almost can’t keep up. He has mastered pulling himself up. The only issue is that he wants to pull up on everything. Every. Thing. Me, the dogs, the bookshelf, his Zany Zoo activity center, the bed, the couch, the 6 inch high box. All he knows is he wants up. He …

No, not on a baby singles cruise to the Bahamas, though he is quite a ladies man. Zevry still needs a lot of help with balance when he stands. He has the strength to fully support his weight, but he can’t quite do it on his own. So this morning I set him down on his blue mat to play while I scoped for freebies and he pulled himself up on the table. He slowly edged along, all the while eying the chair. When he got to the edge of …

Tonight I gave Zevry a bath and I was blowing soap bubbles at him. He would watch them land on his belly and try to touch them and of course they would pop. So I kept saying “Bye Bye Bubbles!!!” And he repeated it back to me! I know he doesn’t know what it means, but he said “Bye Bye Bubbles” very clearly about 3-4 times. Later he kept trying to say it and came close, but it was more like “Buh Buh Bubs.” It was very, very sweet!
Then, …