Baby Dylan - 34 wks (7 mths) old today

This week Dylan and I are in Mobile, Alabama while Matt is working in Lafayette, Louisiana. He will driving in today. This week we have mostly been visiting family and friends. We celebrated Lucie's 1st birthday (Lucie is Dylan's first cousin) and also took our first trip to the zoo in New Orleans, Louisiana. I will be sure to post pictures of both events sometime over the next week. As far Dylan, he is crawling all over the place. Talking up a storm, although we can understand much, lol.

Baby Dylan - 33 wks (7 mths) old today

Every week its something new. This week, Dylan has really showed major interest in crawling. Although, he has been pretty mobile for the past few weeks like bottom shuffling (scooting around on his bottom, using a hand behind and a foot in front to propel himself), slithering on his stomach, & rolling across the room. We have witnessed all of these actions but, now he has learned to move confidently from a sitting position to being on all fours, and he can also rock back and forth when his limbs are straight and his body is parallel to the floor. He is trying to master the art of moving his hands and knees together . Sometimes he will not go very far, other times he will boogie half way across the room. Matt bought him a bouncy ball to play with and it has really turned him on to the crawling action by chasing after his ball. When he achieves his goal of reaching the ball, he then, rolls on his back on tries to eat it, lol. It's so funny.

The Rest of Dylan's portaits....

Dylan's Pajamas!

Here is a few more photos taken from the other week. After taking numerous photos, we were getting ready to leave the studio and changed Dylan into his pjs to go home, when all the sudden he started cheesing it up for the photographer. So, having photos taken in his pajamas wasn't part of the plan, but, ended up being a pretty dog-gone cute idea!

Baby Dylan - 32 wks (7 mths) old today

Finally, Dylan has 2 teeth. After several fussy nights and a runny nose, 2 pearly white teeth have made their long awaited appearance.
He seems to enjoy chomping down on the spoon whenever I stick it in his mouth to feed him. So, another week, another wonderful milestone!
The picture to the left is part of Dylan's portraits we had made a week or so ago. As promised - I will post all the photos from that session very soon.

A very special quilt!

This past weekend Matt took this photo of Dylan with his Noah and the Ark quilt that was handmade by his great-grandmother. He loves the bright colors and pointing to the animals. Thanks for a very special gift Great Mamon!

Dylan's First Halloween!

OK, I am a little late on this, but better late than never! Here is Dylan in his Halloween costume. He did so well in his Humpty Dumpty attire. We attended a few parties and threw a Halloween Party as well, so I have lots of pictures to sort through. I will be sure to post them.

Discovery Toys!

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Halloween 2007

I hope everyone had a safe and Happy Halloween. We put some decorations out, bought some candy to hand out, and invited neighbors over to enjoy a fun evening of trick or treating. We figure over 30 neighbors visited our house, not including the trick or treaters. Anyways, Sheree' will be posting some additional pictures soon i think.

Baby Dylan - 31 wks (7 mths) old today

Our precious little man is now 7 months old. We went last week and had his pictures made. I will be sure to post all them real soon. We are apart of a milestones photo club so we had to go get our photographs for his 6Th month. We were a little behind on them, lol. All and all, he did pretty good. He loves to have his picture taken. I think he might be a print model/football player/lawyer. OK, so I have big dreams for him! He can be whatever he wants to be. We will love him no matter what.

Our Gerber Baby

All the time we have people stop us and tell us how Dylan looks a lot like the Gerber baby. To me, he does resemble the popular icon. What do you think?

Sleepyhead....

Right now it's 6:45am . Dylan has been up and down all night. I think the weather change is getting the best of him. Normally he doesn't wake up til like 8:45ish/9:00ish am, but his nose has been a little stuffy and he can't seem to take his pacifier and breath at the same time. He wants his Pacifier in a bad way. He loves it. So our feet don't normally hit the floor this early (unless I am going to a 18 hr sale at the mall).

The photo to the left was shot a few days ago. He fell asleep while taking his afternoon bottle. I didn't want to wake him, so I snuck up on him and got my photo. He is so sweet;holding his bottle with boths hands! I love it!

We have a visitor, it's Mr. Grumpy!

Earlier this week I captured the photo to the left. I saw a new mood from Dylan. I like to call this mood,"Let me out now or else". He wanted to play as soon as he finished his meal. Normally I put a few toys on the high chair and he is content for a few minutes. I do this so his food has time to settle in his stomach before he goes to playing and rolling around on the carpet. With his reflux, I find that waiting 10 minutes before playtime after a meal seems to keep his food in his tummy and not all over the floor,but on this rare occasion, he was not happy after eating his dinner and decided to toss all of his toys off the high chair and yell at me. I tried my best not to laugh at him. I didn't want to encourage this type of behavior, but it was funny. He was acting like the Incredible Hulk. The photo doesn't show, but he was trying his best to push the tray of the high chair. After taking my pictures, I told him (in a firm voice, never used towards him before) "Not Nice". He seemed to be upset at the fact I told him that. He cried a little then calmed down a bit. I placed his rattles and blocks back onto the tray. He played for a few minutes. Then I let him get on the floor and play.
It's so interesting to watch him really show his emotions. Although I have a feeling this will not be the last time he reacts unhappy to my parenting choices, lol.

Visit to Mobile

This past week Dylan and I went to visit my parents in Mobile, Alabama. We had a wonderful time, while Matt was hard at work in Dallas, Texas. While we were there, my mom, my brother and I took Dylan to the town pumpkin patch at the park. He tried so hard to eat the hay. Everything to the mouth! Anyways, here is the picture we took!

Dylan's First Words!

Dylan's has spoken his first words. It is the sweetest words ever."Da-Da" , our kid is a genius. We were shopping in TJ Maxx when all of the sudden he let this burst out and a cute little laugh then started yelling for his "Da-Da". Matt says that Dylan was trying to yell for him because mommy was shopping at a sale, lol. I did have my camera on hand, and happened to catch his very first words on video.

Can you believe it? Amazing how intelligent he is at such an incredibly young age. Okay, Okay, so we are partial, but very proud of our little man.

For your viewing pleasure, click the play button located above this paragraph and see for yourself......Don't forget to crank up the volume!

Time to store the swing in the attic!

The swing, a new mothers best friend, her part time babysitter; I am gonna miss my old friend,(insert dramatic cry here) as we will soon be putting the swing away for the next LeBlanc baby to use in the future. Dylan is very close to reaching the max weight limit recommended by Fisher Price. He has really enjoyed his swing. Napping, Playing,watching TV; it has been a dear friend to him too,(pause to dry tears from dramatic cry) but, he is outgrowing it. I think the tell tell signs are pretty obvious. We are replacing batteries more frequent than in the past and sometimes it just stops, lol. Anyone who is in the market for a new swing, I highly recommend this swing, The Fisher Price Cradle Swing. It switches direction from front to back swinging or side to side cradle style swinging. We bought the Fisher Price Take-Along swing (recently recalled by Fisher Price,we are currently waiting on our refund from Mattel) for travel purposes, a waste of our money. He couldn't stand it. We would still pack the big swing. So to make a long story short, it is now time to say good bye ole' friend (sniffle-sniffle) as you go to that attic in the sky.

Quack-Quack, Waddle-Waddle........

And the winner is, Rubber Duckies. After many of you voted on our "Upstairs,Kids bathroom design theme", the poll results are as follows:

rubber duckies
6 votes (42%)

stripes and polka dots
4 votes (28%)

pirates and mermaids
2 votes (14%)

teddy bears
2 votes (14%)

Total Votes :14

We will be sure to post pictures as the bathroom takes shape in its Rubber Ducky theme. Thanks for voting!

Baby Dylan - 30 wks (6 mths) old today

At last, Dylan is once again sleeping through the night. I think the recent milestone of learning to roll over onto his stomach; was the result of the past few weeks worth of restless nights. Now he mostly sleeps on his stomach or side. Although, he sometimes wakes up a couple of times a night, we have discovered he can put himself back to sleep after a little bit of fussing. That’s not to say every night is perfect. Some nights he wakes up in the middle of the night and can’t calm himself back to sleep. Occasionally that's when we put him in his swing. Overall, we’re pretty happy with how much better his sleep habits are, if you compare them to the past few weeks. Hopefully after last night (a very long sleeping time) he will maintain this new sleeping pattern.

Baby Dylan - 29 wks (6 mths) old today

Here is Dylan hanging out in his bedroom. He wanted to sit up in his rocking chair. Wow,he is such a big boy. Anyways, he wouldn't stop wiggling his feet. That's why its a little blurry in the photo.

"Ring My Bell"

Last Friday night we were getting ready for bed when Dylan started ringing the bell on his firetruck. It was the funniest thing. He needed a little assistance at the time picking up the string to the bell but, soon learned how to do it all by himself! Click on the arrow on the picture to the left to play the clip. Enjoy!