Bananas - A favorite?

Today was Dylan's first time trying fruit, we have conquered and loved our veggies. Rice cereal is a staple and oatmeal is something we are getting used to.



I thought I would be taking a couple precious pictures of a child thrilled to be eating bananas after all the veggies mom has been serving up. I did get some great pictures but not at all what I had in mind as you can see.



Looks like Dylan isn't quite sure what to think in these first few pictures but the flared nostrils say something isn't quite right















Now it looks like Mom just feed her precious angel zucchini oh wait Dylan loves zucchini













Maybe it was a lemon???











Here is the proof - this was bananas!!!


After one bite little man signed a real grown up type sigh. It said in not so many words - "OK, I got through that! What is this woman going to throw at me next?"
Can you imagine if I had fed my child bananas first like so many people successfully have. Dear Dylan would never have trusted me again to give him food.
Of course being the sweet child that he is Dylan ate all the banana that mom had for his dinner. I am sure he will get used to it and one day maybe even love bananas - we will see.
For now his heart lies with the wide variety of squash he has eaten.

7 months!

The sweet ladies in Dylan's room at the church nursery took a picture of us so Rory could see both of us on the blog:) The next picture is Dylan having a great time in the nursery. He is quite popular - I found out this time that ladies who work in other rooms want to come in and get some Dylan time:)

Dylan's first bath in the actual tub! He loved the freedom to move around! As promised my darling son got to play with bubbles.

He was definitely captivated by the bubbles...

tried to grab or catch the bubbles...

when they landed in the water but didn't burst he would slap them causing water to go everywhere:)...

and he didn't know what to think when they burst on his face

Mom splurged and bought Dylan a gator in a speedboat. You pull the string on the back and the boat scoots across the water. I thought it was pretty neat.

Dylan on the other hand just wanted to chew on it:)

Here we are after the wonderful bath time!

For those of you who are interested - I weighted Mr. Dylan on our bathroom scale 19 lbs 4 oz

"Big" Boy

Dylan loves playing with his blocks (from Ms Courtney) Of course his version on playing is let mom set them up then knock them over repeatedly after which he will choose a few to chew on and be good to go.

This outfit is from Ms Courtney as well - we wanted to wear it because we were thinking of Daddy and missing him so much!

Dylan is now strong enough to ride like a "big" boy in the shopping cart at the commissary (grocery store for you civilians:) ) It does make it a little longer of a trip because Dylan now has access or tries to have access to all the neat things on the shelf and in the cart.
Yes, he is squinting again. maybe I should look into some baby sunglasses.
If you click on the picture to make it bigger you can see his top teeth so maybe he wasn't squinting he was showing off his new teeth:)

Dylan can also sit up like a "big" boy in his swing. he doesn't want anything to do with the reclining swing position. Even if he starts to drift off to sleep he better be sitting up. If I recline him he lets me know that wasn't a great idea.

Tomorrow Dylan hits the big 7 months:) We are going to celebrate by doing the usual plus mommy bought some safe bubbles (safe as in they are made out of sugar water). We are going to blow bubbles at bath time tomorrow evening.

Daddy and Dylan

Here are some pictures we took Sunday before Rory left.

Some handsome fellas :)












Rory you are being greatly missed - we love you so much!

Thanks to Aunt Megan & Uncle Jimmy for the bib and Nana & Papa Steve for the V-day shirt



































Our little family went to Texas Steakhouse for Valentine's Day dinner:)

Snowy Valentines

This morning when Rory was heading out for work at 4:30am (God bless that man for his hard work - can you imagine 4:30 leaving for work) he came back upstairs and had me look out the window. It had snowed more than we have ever seen here. After he headed out I watched him in the early morning light scraping his windows - oh I love him!

Dylan was able to experience his first snow this morning. Way before his mom every did - being that I was born and bred in the great state of Florida. When we first walked out the front door he was staring intently at the sun gleaming off the snowy ground. He started laughing when the breeze picked up.

For a Floridian this is deep snow!

Here is our precious Dylan all bundled up

Our curious man wants to learn about everything -
he was patting the snow with his bundled up hands

He is laughing again - it makes my heart sing to see him so thrilled with life.

Oh to experience the everyday with the heart of a children

Pops I included this one just for you - if you look close you will see why

He is squinting:)


Happy Valentines to Everyone XOXO
I will post some family V-day pictures later once we take some when Rory gets home

Brody's Party

Dylan is a partying guy!

This past weekend Dylan attended another birthday party.

Brody's first birthday.

He started out slow with his cake. Some of his little friends even helped him out by putting some cake into his mouth. He took over from there...

Brody was lovin' that cake!!

Some party goers:) Caroline with her son Grayson and Dylan and I. I tried to get some pictures of the birthday boy but he was too interested in being mobile. Before cake time he had on the cutest outfit - a yellow dress shirt with a tie and jeans. He was stylish! I also tried to get a picture of Dylan and Grayson sitting together but each one was interested in something else as you can tell was the case since they are doing the same thing above.
Another great party!

Eating Veggies

Dylan has worked his way through yellow veggies and this evening he starts green veggies - yummy. My girlfriends had mentioned that they started their children on veggies so they didn't get a taste for the sweet fruits first and then hate veggies. We decided that was a great idea. I am doing half homemade baby food and half store bought.


Thus far Dylan has eaten and loved sweet potato, yellow squash, carrots and butternut squash. When he tried the carrots he did squeeze his eyes closed and make a face but then the mouth was open for more. Of course he eats his DHA enriched rice cereal at every meal.
He is a veggie eating champ.


Sweet peas tonight!
In line we have zucchini, green beans and down the line (making sure his tummy is ready for the fiber) we have asparagus and broccoli in the freezer



PS - Dylan's third tooth is coming in - it is his front tooth on the top left. It has broken through the gums.

Peek-A-Boo

Dylan was playing under the sheets on Rory and I's bed the other day - it was to precious so obviously I had to take a picture:)

Little Man Updates

This boy is working so very hard at crawling. As you can see in the above pictures he does get up on all fours. When up there he rocks back and forth then falls down to his tummy and goes about his business - which is now getting into everything he can. I know, I know he hasn't even begun to show me what really getting into thing is all about.

Daddy and Dylan:)
Notice in the bottom picture Dylan pulling Rory's hair - yeah he loves to pull hair, twist hair around his finger and try to eat it. (obviously the twisting and eating he is trying to do with my hair)

Here is our goof ball - one of his new things is to stick his tongue out and around the corner of his lips. He plays with his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth - odd but precious (of course I am the mom saying that is precious)

Peek-a-boo. Little man can scoot backwards very well! He could win the backward scooting 100meters if we would let him, but we are waiting and training him for the 400. When we are in the office he always seems to end up under the couch - he seems to think that is his secret spot:) For those of you who know about his love affair with wood, I think that is what is so attractive about under the couch. The couch has wooden supports and legs - so Dylan just scoots right on back under the couch to admire the craftsmanship.

Dylan's first Superbowl and no his parents didn't let him watch. Daddy did show him how much men love remotes:)