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Lost Child

We had so much fun posing Donovan next to this sign while we were at the Los Angeles fair. I love the sequence of these photos.





Showing off his belly. Maybe he'll get some takers this way.

Our Dallin

Our second son, Dallin Irving DeVard was born June 6, 2010. He was 8 lbs. 4 oz and 20 inches long. I was induced with him one week early because my doctor was afraid his head might be too big to fit on the way out. I went in Friday night and was induced around 6 pm. I had steady contractions all that night but not enough to have really active labor. Around 8 in the morning my OBGYN came in and broke my water to speed things up a bit. Well, that did the trick! By 10 I was hurting so bad that I told them I wanted an epidural. But my nurse told me the anesthesiologist wouldn't be able to be there for a while so they offered me some IV meds for the mean time. I took them... and boy did I regret it. They made me so sick! I was throwing up for the rest of the day! Awful! But despite the sickness I was dilated to a 3.5 when the anesthesiologist came in for the epidural. It went very smoothly. While they waited for the epidural to start working Sterling noticed my contractions were "off the charts." around 11:30 my nurse checked me and said I was dilated at a 10 and the baby was "right there." She quickly called my doctor and before I knew it I was pushing. I couldn't believe I dilated 6.5 cm in and hour.The pushing was kinda slow (due to our baby's big cranium) and honestly the worst part was that between the pushing I had to stop to throw up. But he eventually made it out at 12:45 pm. I was so excited to see his cute little face and full head of hair! Actually I was shocked that his hair was so dark and that he had so much of it (Donovan was practically bald and strawberry blonde). But I had a lot of hair as a newborn too. But he was healthy and alert and started eating right away. We really couldn't have asked for a healthier little guy.



Anyways... now it is three months later and Dallin is thriving...literally. He is almost 18 pounds! No joke. He is off the charts for growth percentiles. He is our little chunky monkey and we all love him to pieces! Especially his big brother Donovan who is always wanting to kiss him (especially when he's napping).

Now that we have Dallin though we realize now how easy of an infant Donovan was. Dallin is much fussier than Donovan ever was. He also has a habit of not wanting to fall asleep until after 1 am. Mommy is not too fond of that one.

He loves to look at faces, talk back with his cute baby language and coos. He enjoys trying fit his fist in his mouth, have tummy time and smile at everyone.

We feel so very blessed and couldn't ask for a better set of boys!

It's been a while

I'm such a bad blogger lately. Let's just say I've been busy... not to mention pregnant, tired and swollen. Things have been great for us lately. I am now almost 6 months pregnant! I can't believe how quickly it has gone by this time. We found out the exciting news that Donovan will be having a little brother! I kinda figured we would have a boy just by the sheer number of boys in Sterling's family. I'm really glad that Donovan will have a little brother. I hope they are the best of friends.

I can't believe Donovan will be turning 2 in May. The time goes by quicker than I imagined. Lately Donovan has been REALLY into letters and numbers. He loves saying the alphabet and pointing out letters wherever we go. He also likes counting things and finding numbers. His other favorite thing is babies (which works out nicely since we will be having one in a few months)! He has a baby doll and loves to carry it around the house, give it a bottle and sleep with it. He always gets really excited too seeing a baby at the park or a store. We recently taught Donovan how to pray. He will fold his arms and then repeat the last word that we say to him. He always tells us before we pray that he wants to pray for Evie (which is his nickname for his best friend Zoe) and Bip (his nickname for Bishop- Zoe's grandpa).

Playing piano with Zoe

These two are so cute!

Playing at Kidspace

Pointing out letters at Kidspace

Being an alligator in the tub

Pre bath time bubble fun with Dada

Sleeping next to his friend Grizzly the mastiff

"Cheese"

Donovan teaching his baby how to use the potty

6 months pregnant and Donovan being goofy

Zoe hugging Donovan at Disneyland

"Hello Banana"

Birthday kisses for Mama

Zoo Trip

Donovan and I went to the Los Angeles zoo today. It was so much fun! The sun was out and it really warmed up today. There was barely anyone at the zoo and the animals were all out today. Donovan really loved getting to see all the different animals (especially the ones he knows from his books) !

Donovan enjoyed picking up all the different colored leaves on the ground.

He got so excited when he saw the Chimpanzees. He called them "monkeys" close enough!

Here he is pointing at the chimps on the rock.

The tiger was walking around growling!

I loved the color of these leaves!

He playground was probably his favorite part of the whole trip!

Riding the Alligator!

He gave the alligator a kiss. He's a sweetheart.

I love this photo!

DeVard family News

I am very happy to announce that we are expecting our second baby! He or she is due on June 14 2009(my grandpa's birthday!). I'm 13 weeks pregnant and very excited to be expecting again. Things have been going well so far, although I have been way more nauseous this time around that I ever was with Donovan. I'm hoping the tiredness wears off soon and I get some energy. Jane took these photos for us recently and I just love them! I think Donovan is going to make a wonderful big brother (he just has to work on sharing first :) ).

Check out my shirt

I'm so excited

Yay!

Halloween

This year for Halloween we decided to dress up as Peter Pan characters with our friends the Foresters. It was so much fun! Donovan was Peter, Sterling was Captain Hook and I was Wendy. Zoe Forester was Tinker Bell, her Mom Leah was Tiger Lilly and her Dad Tyler was a Lost Boy. These pictures were taken at our Halloween party at church. I really love dressing up for Halloween and taking photos. I also want to include some photos of Leah and I taking Donovan and Zoe trick-or-treating Saturday night. I'll add them soon.

PS- Sorry for the lack of posting. We just moved to a new apartment a few weeks ago and just barely got internet.

Catherine if you are reading this thank you agin for taking these great photos!

Group Photo

Silly shot

Peter Pan and Tinker Bell share a Halloween kiss!