The Arrival of Dylan Allen

Right before we left for the hospital...the last time to be an only child! He is such a proud big brother!

Arriving in the hospital labor room. My last belly picture.

Daddy watching the heart rate and contraction monitor.

Laboring....

Trying to catch some zzz's waiting for Dylan.

Hard contractions

Staring at Daddy helped me focus

Getting really close

Dylan's very 1st picture!

Our 1st picture together

8 lbs. 1 oz. and he was MAD!

Admiring my precious creation.

Proud Daddy

Love how he is pulling on his hat

GO HOGS! (especially with all these LSU fans!)

Sleeping baby boy

Tiny feet are so sweet!

Chillin with Mama in bed.

Swaddled up and loving it.

Sweet...

Looking at the camera

Such a big boy!

These are some pictures to hold everyone over until we get home. We are all doing very well. Dylan Allen was born April 13, 2010 at 2:04 am. He weighed 8 lbs. 1 oz. and is 20 inches long. I will write about our eventful night soon. We should be discharged tomorrow morning.

Easter 2010

We had a great Easter! We had some family come into town for Easter, and they were on standby just in case the baby decided to come. We spent the whole weekend playing with James and enjoying each other's company. We took a walk to the park, and we had a fun Easter egg hunt for James in the backyard. Here are some of our pictures from Easter.

Here is what the Easter Bunny left James ~ Little Tikes Golf Set, monkey pillow, big ball, peeps, bibs, and bubbles! Wow! This Easter Bunny was a little crazy! ;)

Pawpaw and Nana even gave him a present ~ Pound a Peg, an adorable bunny, and a ducky that flashes when you push the ball inside.

Here James is showing off his mad skills with the Pound a Peg. He actually caught on really quick and loves this toy!


This is James' technique for golfing...he might need some help Poppi.

Another good action shot of hitting the ball off the tee.

Our sweet boy waiting patiently outside by the fountain for everyone to leave for church.

Daddy and James ~ this outfit is the one his Daddy wore for his second Easter! We are so glad Gigi saved this!

Smelling the flowers before church...too cute!

Our big boy after church

Cute little pose

Daddy is SO funny!

Our little family of 3!

Here is a good shot of my belly on Easter while I am working on dinner!

OH!!! More Easter eggs!

Finding Easter eggs in the yard.

I love how he takes such care in doing everything!

James is running after the last egg and Mama is encouraging him to go.

Daddy is showing James the bubbles.

Even though baby Brother decided not to show this weekend, we had a great time and we are officially ready and waiting on our newest edition! Nine days or less!

Easter Egg Hunt

We had an Easter Egg Hunt last night at church for all the children, and we had such a great time! Here are some pictures of all the excitement!

Daddy and James were listening to the instructions and waiting to get some eggs!

We walked outside and James just took in all the other children until....

He spotted his first egg! After that he had no trouble running around picking up eggs.

Sometimes James would run away from all the eggs on accident, but Daddy would point out some eggs and James would boogey over there! It was too cute to watch them find eggs!

He is delicately placing his eggs in his little basket.

Here James and his little friend, Judd are picking up eggs together and trying to give each other their eggs! It was really cute to see them sharing. The older kids at church walked around and strategically placed eggs for the little ones and this was one spot where they left about ten eggs!

I love how he is excited and running back to his basket here!

Mommy is trying to keep James away from some one's forgotten eggs. James saw this as the perfect opportunity to pick up some more eggs!

Mommy was telling James to look at the camera, but little did she know he was and she wasn't! Silly Mama!

Here James is telling the older boy who just gave him an egg "Thank you" in sign language. How sweet!

Look at that throw!

We sat down to admire our eggs and every time he would smile at his eggs they would be over his face! So, he had a great time we just couldn't capture the smile!

His favorite egg is a yellow egg with blue butterflies. He found this egg without any candy in it, and he loved to try to open and close it all night!

My sweet boys ready to go back inside!

We decided to walk back over to see what Judd was doing.

The two boys carrying their own Easter baskets. They did NOT want anyone else carrying them. I think they were really proud of all their hard work.

Daddy put James in the bounce around thing, and I think he would have enjoyed it, but there were too many big kids. He kept getting smooshed.

Here he is trying to get up, but it failed!

Just standing around holding his Easter eggs.

Oh! The cookie after dinner...he was chewing it like a fish and I thought this picture captured that! He ate about 1/4 of the cookie and decided he didn't want that anymore. I think it was too sweet!

Then he wanted to look at his eggs...and try to eat those too!

Daddy held James on a big inflatable thing and bounced him around - James had a blast!

Well, that was our fun-filled evening last night. I think we are going to hide some Easter eggs outside Sunday just to see him do it again! It was too cute, and I know he really enjoyed it. Hopefully we will get a family picture on Easter and we can post then. Enjoy your weekend!

Baby Update

I am feeling, overall, very well. I have decided I think I am ready for Baby Brother to be here...TODAY (or asap). I love being pregnant, but there is just something so much more special about having your baby here. I went to the doctor yesterday and found out I am 3 cm dilated and 60% effaced! :) I will not disclose how much weight I have gained, but I will say it is less than what I gained with James....so far. My blood pressure was great at 120/60, and the baby's heartrate was 137 bpm. My uterus is still measuring big by two weeks, so it looks like a 39 week belly as you can see below! YIKES!!! Since we have such a long drive to make it to the hospital, and we think I won't make it much longer, we decided to set a day to be induced. We should definitely have Baby Brother here on OR before April 14, 2010! We are still struggling with this choice of breaking my water because we want to let nature take its course unless there is a medical reason to induce. However, having to drive an hour and a half just to get to the hospital makes us think this is the wise decision and everything will be okay. I guess we can still decide later, but for now that is where we stand. We will keep you posted as best as we can!

39 Weeks!