Valen will be five months old on november 1st. he has been a bit cranky at night and has hadissuesgoing to bed and staying to bed. the past couple weeks he has been up two or three times a night. maybe he is getting a tooth, of course he chews on everything and drools like a maniac, but that is what babies do, so it is hard to tell. he did bite me a couple times the other day, and i am a little nervous for when he actually does have teeth!! ouch! i never had that problem with dahlia, so i really hope he doesnt chew me up. Valen is just about different in every way from dahlia, except they are both extremely cute! other than the night time crankiness he is a very happy baby. so smiley all of the time! in this picture he was only barely sitting by himself for a few seconds, and as soon as the picture was taken, he fell over (= but he is getting stronger and will be sitting up all by himself soon. he is really interested in anything at all. everything that is within a foot or two he wants to grab. he reaches for eveyrthing... even dahlias hair (= he is paying her back for all of the smacking she has done to him (=

we love our valen!