Dylan Does Dallas

Sorry for the heavily infused picture post, you have been warned.

For Labor Day weekend, Dylan and I planned a little get away. Ok, you got me, I planned in and Dylan tagged along. Damien was going out of town for the Virgina Tech/Alabama game (roll tide), so I thought if he was going out of town, we should too. I called up my friend Holly, whom I had never met, yea, you read that right, no need to read it again, and invited myself for a visit. She will deny this, but it's the truth. We met on a baby board when we were both preggers. We met on the first time May Mommies board, we had the same due date. Throughout the past 2 years (almost) we have gotten to know each other well. We really have a lot in common. We joke about it all the time, like, oh 1 more thing to add to the list of similarities. Like, we both had the same due date, we both wanted to have them on Mother's day, I have an interest in learning sign language, she was a sign language major, etc.

I had been wanting to meet up with Holly for some time and also let the kiddos meet. I was anxious about flying with Dylan by myself as he had flown only once before with Damien, my dad, my mom and myself. To my surprise, there was a new play area at the Nashville airport. Sweet! He can burn all that energy and snooze on the plane.

Well it was a good idea, but I didn't realize until that day that we had a stop off in Birmingham before arriving in Dallas. Dylan fell asleep on that leg and then when we landed in B'ham, the flight attendant got on the speaker and was being loud and woke him up. That didn't make for a happy baby on the way to Dallas. Once we reached the approved altitude for electronics, baby einstein came to the rescue and he watched 2 DVDs without making a peep. The ladies sharing the row with me were so impressed at his focus.

This is my little chipmunk with lunch shoved in his cheek, storing it for later

Once we were there, Harper and Dylan were intrigued with each other. Holly suggested they kiss each other, but learned that Harper was a kissing bandit and leaned in for a kiss without a prompt. Holly quickly started suggesting hugs. Friday night, her and her husband host a life house group (home group, home church, whatever you want to call it). (Another thing we have in common) I was honored to be able to sit in on the group and the good discussion around Acts 2.

On Saturday, we went to the Ft Worth zoo. Dylan loves him some animals and he was not scared to get up close and personal with the animals. This is him checking out some fish.
He was a little reluctant of this little fellow until I touched him and showed him that it was safe, then he couldn't keep his hands off of him.
Harper and Dylan cozied up for a nice stage coach ride.
Then, there was there first bath together. I joked with Holly that I was going to title my blog the hair and the hairless, you can see why. Dylan has a lot of hair compared to Harper and from this picture, you can tell she is jealous :)
Then there was sweet quiet time when they read their stories.
Then there was snuggle time with me and Wiley. We were fond of each other. He was a great snuggler.
We couldn't leave without a picture of the group. Wish we had thought about this when her hubby was at home or awake, oh well, it was the best that we could do with extended arms.
Dylan giving Harper's carseat a good buy hug. He is quite the hugger. I should make him a shirt that says "FREE HUGS HERE"

We had a great weekend with the H family and hope that we can meet up again, maybe next time in Tennessee. Thanks for the great weekend ya'll !