Dylan is 6 months old!

Well, we can barely believe that our little boy is already 6 months old.  Time has gone by so fast.  He is so much more interactive which is really fun for us.  He loves to babble and has gone away from just the screaching sound.  We went to the pediatrician's office on 4/28 and he is now 27.5 inches long and weighs in at 15.6 pounds.  He is in the 83rd percentile for his length and 14th percentile for his weight.  Basically a long skinny baby.  His new favorite toy is his jumperoo; now that he can actually touch the ground with a pillow underneath him he is starting to jump and laugh.  He has been eating baby food for about a month now.  He loves bananas, and0 there hasn't been a food yet that he doesn't like.  He definately loves to be held and loves his mama and dada.  He is thrilled with anything that he can pick up or anything that makes noise.  He has also outgrown his bumbo chair.  Just last week crawled out of it.  Now we have to keep a much closer eye on him when he is in it.  Wow, so much news...here are a few pictures.  I am working on being able to upload some video.

He thought this was so funny

Dylan got his first tooth!

Well, the last few weeks have gone by fast.  Shane and I have both been very busy.  Between work, yard work and other house projects we have been going nonstop.  I could never have imagined how much longer projects take when you have a baby.  Something I could have accomplished in a couple hours now takes a couple days.  Oh well, I have definately learned to be much, much more patient.  Speaking of our little guy; He finally has his first tooth!  He is growing up way too fast but it is a blast.  He has also started eating rice cereal, oatmeal, barley, carrots, and pears.  He makes the funniest faces when he eats the carrots.  He has started to become a little more fussy and he definately knows exactly what he wants and when he doesn't get it he is not happy.  I am slowly trying to wean him to have more alone playtime. 

Around the house we are working on getting our garden ready to be planted.  We are also having a landscape designer come over next week and draw up some plans so we can work on the front and backyard this summer. 

We also have taken Cash to a new dog park.  It is nice because we can let him off the leash and run and play with the other dogs.  There is a stream they can swim in and he loves to retrieve sticks.  I wear Dylan in our baby bjorn and he gets a kick out of the other dogs and people. 

Family at the dog park

Cash swimming

Shane and Cash taking a nap. (not really but Cash loves to be held like this)

Dylan sleepy outside.

Go Orioles!

Dylan on Opening Day

Go Orioles!

Pictures of Dylan

Happy Baby!

Holding on tight to Cash.

He loves to pull Cash's hair and lucky he doesn't seem to mind.

All cozy on a cold day.

Family Pictures

Last week we had our family pictures taken.  Here is a web address that you can view them at:

http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewalbum?bm=115835

and also at 

http://www.charleswestphotography.com/

go to the clients page and the password is Dylan.

Easter

Dylan and I hung out together in the morning while Shane was at work.  Dylan took a long nap which was perfect so I could bake some cupcakes.  I even made a bunny cake with the left over batter.  I am pretty proud of my first ever bunny cake.  We are going to have some friends over later for dinner and then some ice cream after that.  Here are some pictures of Dylan and my cake I made.

Dylan's First Easter

My first bunny cake!

Florida Pictures

On the airplane...thank goodness for the boppy...

Dylan slept almost the whole way on both flights!

Dylan and his Great Grandma Miller

The family at the beach...warm, sunny, 80 degrees, perfect!

Dylan in the ocean for the 1st time!

He thought it was pretty funny when the water would come up.

Shane and Dylan at his first MLB game.

Dylan in his Oriole's outfit and a baseball in his hand...hopefully in 20 years he will be wearing the real Oriole's outfit!

Dylan at the Twin's-Phillie's game

Great Grandma Miller, Dylan, and Shane playing bingo.

At Ed Smith Stadium to watch the Oriole's - Yankees game!

(Oriole's kicked theYankee's butt!)

We had front row tickets right off of the first base!

I got five autographs and a foul ball thrown to me!

Great Grandma Miller babysat Dylan all day while we were at the game...

Dylan had a good time with his Great Grandma

Dylan's first bite of rice cereal...

and back it came out. At least he thought it was fun.