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I guess I missed Dylan's 9 month mark. I was waiting til after he went to the doctor to post all his fun stats and then I just got so busy that here it is a month later and still no post.

9 month stats
Weight - 22 lbs 64%
Height - 29 in 65%
Head - 48 cm 97%

I'm amazed that he isn't higher in the weight and height. He always seems so big to me!

A few things about Dylan
Dylan is like a magnet to the dog food. Whenever he spies the dish on the floor he makes a beeline right for it as fast as he can just to splash in the water and try to shove some food in his mouth.
He has 8 teeth now.
He eats mostly table food now and loves it.
He said his first word on August 23rd. He said mama followed shortly by dada.
He can crawl so fast. And an update, he took his first steps on September 2nd. He loves to walk along the walls and almost prefers that to crawling anymore.
loves to walk along furniture and walls.
He loves his blanket (swaddling blanket - aden and anais) and I'm so glad that I 4 of them to rotate through.
He is just my busy body. He loves to be where ever the other kids are and loves to use his voice. I love to lay in bed in the mornings to listen to him babble to himself.
He is such a mellow baby. People always comment on how good he is. He really only cries when he is hungry or tired. Never just to whine.
He is so fun and I still love to kiss on him all day long.

Sometimes I Can Craft

Sometimes I catch a crafty bug - it's kinda like the flu, it hits hard but doesn't last very long. Here are some things I did while I was in the mood.

Gallery Wall-
I had a lot of family pictures that I was in love with. I couldn't pick just 1 of each kid to display and I have a billion frames in boxes in my storage closet. So I decided to take my big wall of my family room and make it a gallery wall.
I started with pulling out all my frames so I could pick what ones to use and I knew what sizes I had so I could print my pictures. I laid them all out on my floor and did a rough design with them. Then I used my awesome artistic abilities and drew my design on paper so I could map out my pictures. I had to decide what kid to put where and make sure I didn't have 3 of the same kid clustered together.

I had to paint some of my frames and I wanted to add some color to them so I picked 4 frames to paint blue and painted the rest black. That's what the green outline is, showing which frames to paint blue.

 I printed my pictures at Mpix and I love the metallic prints! So I got all my big pictures in metallic.

Then the fun part. Tracing all the frames onto paper so you have templates for hanging your frames. It was a pain in the butt but so worth it. I only ended up making one mistake by not making one template the exact size so my spacing in one spot was off and I ended up with a visible oops hole. I made sure to mark where the hanging hardware is on the templates so you can just nail through them and not have to do a lot of work putting nails in.

The finished product. I love how it turned out! And I loved that I got lots of frames out of my storage and onto my walls.

Chair Redo

                             Before                                                                           After

My work was going to throw this chair out and I knew I could do something fun with it. So I snagged it before we put it in the dumpster. It only had it about a month before I got to work on it. I got my fabric at Wal-mart. I think it's darling. So after sanding and painting all the wood, and running out of staples for the staple gun so I had to use tack nails to finish, here is the final product. I had originally wanted to put it in the toy room but I don't think it would last too long before it was colored on, or ripped, or spilled on, or something else to stain it. So I'm keeping it downstairs for a while.