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Introduction

Dear Dylan,

I just wanted to write you a little letter telling you about the things that you have accomplished by the little age of 9 months. For a while there you weren't sleeping through the night, you were waking up every few hours and refusing to go back to sleep. So after weeks and months of no sleep, I called Honey and she told me to call Aunt Teda and talk to her about your lack of sleeping. So, I did and she told me that I was doing everything right at night to get you to back sleep, that I just needed to stop taking you out of bed, just to lay you back down and pat your hinny and talk to you, but to let you go back to sleep on your own. I thought that I was in for a long time of doing this, but it only took two days. You cried the first night for four hours, with me going in and lying you back down every 20 minutes (that was a long night), you finally gave in at 4:30 that morning. By the next night you went to bed and woke up. I repeated the routine and you cried this time for an hour and a half and were out for the night. Boy, did I get a good night's sleep that night.

So now you are going to bed at 8:30 p.m. and sleeping until 7:30 a.m. Sometimes you wake up once at night, but I give you your nunnu and you go right back to sleep. I just wish I would have called Aunt Teda sooner!!!

Well, we took you to see the orthopedic doctor a few weeks ago. He said that you are well advanced for a boy your age. He did see a problem with your leg, but that you didn't have to wear the corrective shoes or braces, that hopefully as you age your hips and leg will straighten out. The doctor wants to make sure that you are doing all right, so he wants you to go back in March after you turn 1, to see a pediatrics specialist that comes on post every other month. The doctor wants to get another opinion on what he told us.

I just want you to know that nothing slows you down. You can walk holding onto anything whether it is a wall or furniture you are using, or you crawl until you can pull yourself up on it. You are trying to hold your own bottle, but you would rather Mommy or Daddy hold it so you can play with your ear or our fingers. When you try to hold your bottle you shake it so hard that milk goes everywhere, all over your face or ours.

You are gibbering so much now and making raspberries at everyone. Sometimes it sounds like you are saying MAMA, but Daddy says no; I think he just wants you to say DADA first like Logan did. But we are trying to get you to say BYE BYE and wave at the same time. You have the waving part down, but the BYE BYE is still a work in progress, you will get there.

Daddy and I took you and Logan to see Santa the other day. I thought that you would have cried but you just looked at him and Logan, and just sat there. You did great. The pictures are so cute. I am excited about the Christmas holidays; we are going home to New Orleans to see Honey, PaPa, Grammy and everyone else. They keep telling me that you have gotten so big and that they can't wait to get their hands on you. You are so loved by everyone, especially Mommy and Daddy.

Dylan, I just want you to know that I love you so much, that I thank God everyday for giving you to us. You and your brother are our worlds, we don't know what we would do without you two. I am so proud of you and all that you are doing now, I can't wait to see what you will do next to amaze me and make me love you even more. I love you Little Man. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!

Love, Mommy