Practing "surprise face"!

As many of you know, my family loves to do a "surprise face" photo. Here is Dylan practicing his best surprise face, we are getting close!!! 
 

Dylan Celebrates Cinco de Mayo!

Dylan celebrated his first Cinco De Mayo with a little salsa and spice! He made music with his favorite new rattle, watch out marache bands!

 

Sleep 101

Our doctor and many other people told us not to worry about Dylan's sleep patterns until he was 12 weeks old. Well, here we are just past 12 weeks and we started to see more patterns and decided to read up on "sleep training". Dylan amazed us by sleeping through the night, I mean 12 hours!!! BUT that quickly changed last week, we knew it wouldn't last forever so we enjoyed the long stretches while they lasted. Here are a few milestones, Dylan's first naps in his crib, him sleeping in the co-sleeper next to our bed and him sleeping outside under the trees in my parent's packyard.

 

 

 

 

Muir Woods!

Almost every night we read Dylan "Good Night San Francisco" and there is a part of the book that talks about "the nearby redwoods" so we thought it would be important for Dylan to SEE the nearby Redwoods. BUT first we took a drive to Stinson Beach. . . wow, we quickly realized why we don't do that more often. That drive is so crazy, constant turns and you feel sick after going about 1 mile. We made it there just in time to grab lunch. We found a great little spot by the beach and ordered from the outside cafe. Just as soon was we ordered our sweet Dylan decided it was his time to eat as well, and he let everyone on the patio know!!! We quickly told the server that we'd take it to go and I headed to the car to feed Dylan. After he got his meal I was determined to see the Ocean, so we walked to the beach said, "hello ocean" and thean headed back home stopping off at Muir woods first. We had a great time here and Dylan really enjoyed being out of the car, and so did we!!! Here are a few fun photos of our day adventure!

 

 

 

 

Dylan meets Addison!

My very best friend from high school, Lucky Meg came to visit with her husband Craig and her daughter Addison. We had a quick visit at my parents house but it was so much fun to get our little ones together. Dylan got to meet Addison who is just 6 months older than him, who says he can't go for an older chick?

 

 

 

Easter 2009

We celebrated Easter by going to mass at St. Agnes with Ryan's parents. It was a great liturgy and a wonderful way to begin our Easter morning. We then went to Danville to join my parents, the Brinkers, the Fishers and Aunt Bethy for a BBQ. We had a great time and Dylan enjoyed his first Easter basket as well. I had a good time dressing him for the occasion. . . see the socks!

 

 

 

 

Dylan meets Tammie and Lily

Dylan and I had a playdate with Tammie (my good friend from high school and LMU)and her daughter Lily before Easter. It was so much fun to see Tammie as a Mom and to play with Lily. Tammie lives in Lincoln so we don't always get to see her but we had a great visit at her Mom's house in Diablo. Thanks Tammie and Lily for coming down to visit us!