Cherry Blossoms and Easter

This year we were so lucky that Easter weekend was BEAUTIFUL. On Saturday my parents came down to spend some time with Dylan and we dragged them out to the overly crowded Cherry Blossom Festival. We packed everyone into Pat's car (including Charlie) and headed downtown. Of course we choose the busiest day, it looked like Obama's inauguration all over again. It was hard to drive because people were pouring into all of the intersections! We finally found a garage to park in and walked over to the blossoms. They were so pretty, it was an incredible site to see a sea of pink in full bloom. Charlie loved running through the grass and saying hello to all of the other dogs and people.

We spent Easter Sunday at Pat's parents' house eating a delicious Easter dinner and just relaxing. Dylan happily put up with the cutest outfit!

My first baseball Game(s)

Baby Dylan has already been to three Major League Baseball Games. He's been to two National's games and an Orioles v. Red Sox game. He has been absolutely amazing at all three. We were so worried that the noise and excitement would be too overwhelming for him, but we couldn't have been more wrong. At the first National's game we took him to he excitedly tried to look at everything all at once. He loved looking at all of the red shirts. We had amazing seats thanks to Mary's amazing job! At the second National's game we ran into one of the "Presidents" and were able to snap a quick family picture! A few weeks later we watched the Orioles beat the Red Sox with a ton of home runs on both sides! Camden Yards was a lot louder, but my attempts to cover Dylan's ears were pointless. He got mad and shook his head preventing me from covering them, he wanted to take the whole experience in.

Here are some highlights :)

Dylan Joseph Soper

On March 3rd at 7:46 am Dylan was born!! He was 6 pounds 5 ounces and 20 inches long. We spent 4 days in the hospital then all went home on March 6th happy and healthy. The first night home was basically awful. Dylan refused to sleep, hated the pack and play, and screamed all night. We were really worried about what we were in for. The next day we figured out that we needed to keep our room a lot warmer and let him sleep on a blanket and things became really easy. He now sleeps for 4 or 5 hours at a time; yesterday at his two week appointment he was 6 pounds 13 ounces and healthy as can be.

Here's some highlights of our hospital stay...

Finally!

It took a couple months, but here goes... if you didn't know already I'm due March 1st (March birthdays are obviously the best!) and it's a boy!! I'm 32 weeks and very ready for this to be over. I'll post some long awaited pics of the baby bump soooon, but for now, enjoy some pictures of Charlie, the best puppy ever :)