More time with Aunt Sarah and then a play date with Aidan

Its like they have their own secret handshake...probably plotting against us.

Aunt Sarah's in town...

Aunt Sarah is visiting and we had spaghetti for dinner, Rhys' first time. After he slurped up the noodles, his aunt spent some quality time in the bathroom scrubbing him clean.

New additions to the family

I would like to introduce Sophie the sofa and Shannon's unnamed couch. These are our first pieces of non college furniture and they are super comfy.

Here is Rhys breaking in Sophie. He barfed on her right after the pic was taken. And this is Shan's unnamed sofa.

After watching Rhys have such a good time with Aiden's toys, we decided bite the bullet and get him an exersaucer.

Maryland just "survived" the worst winter storm all season. Some compared it to the apocalypse, cars covered in 6 inches of snow, highways caked with powder and not a plow in sight. Everything was canceled: work, businesses...pretty much life as we know it ceased to exist those 2 days of a winter wonderland. Shan got some pics of the hell we had to endure. (I've walked to school in worse...much much worse) If Jay was a Superintendent down here his district would be the only one that wasn't closed.

Here's the bubs rolling around in front of Sophie.

Grrrrrr

Rhys has been growling lately at everything. We got some video of him doing just that and some of him playing with his new basketball from ESPN. Turn up the volume on the speakers for optimal growling. Before you say anything Nanny, yes the movies are dark, no we don't have more lights yet, yes we will buy some this weekend :)

Our fun weekend

Saturday we spent the morning at the financial planner figuring out how much Rhys is going to make us poor when he goes to college. We spent the afternoon washing Rhys' mouth out with Scope (very funny story but not blog appropriate) and then went out for a night in Annapolis with Vannah, Derek and Aiden. Aiden is a week younger than Rhys but their due dates were one day apart. We went to Jos, a japanese Restaurant that does NOT cater to little ones. No room to move, no changing tables, and no high chairs so we passed the bubs over plates of sushi and sashimi. The boys were good for the most part and we had a fantastic time. Vannah ended up wearing a beer, a glass of water and tons of baby food before the night was over but she was such a good sport! We got some great pics of the boys at the restaurant and then at Vannah's parent's house. They were so wonderful with Rhys and it was great to spend an evening with people our age that have a little one too.

Oh first Rhys had bacon for the first time saturday morning. Needless to say he's going to be a carnivor when he grows up. Uncle Pat better hide his piggies the next time we head to Brasher.

Here are the men with the boys getting them ready to brave the chilly Maryland night. The little ones were very well behaved and since neither really have much hair they got along b/c there was no pulling/grabbing.

There was plenty of food to be brought home and the waitress was oh so happy to box it up and get us the hell out of there. Also you can spot the other part of dinner: Rhys' bottle, puffies and Aiden's homemade babyfood.

Sunday we spent the day in Baltimore. First stop was Charm City Cakes for all of you food tv fans. Shannon with get a cake from Duff for his birthday. Then we made our way to the Baltimore Aquarium which was a lot of fun. This nice woman with a little one saw that we were a bit confused as to which line to get into for tickets so she asked if we'd like her 2 guest passes. SCORE! We got to see the dophin show where Rhys tracked the high flying antics of the stars of the aquarium.

After Rhys got his fill of looking a turtles and fishies, we had lunch at the ESPN Zone pub. Good food, tvs everywhere (even in every bathroom stall) and a pretty good sports apparal shop. We got Rhys a couple of football, basketball and baseball onsies. This was definately a Hopkin's kinda joint. :)

Once we were done for the day, Rhys took a 3 hour nap, woke up after he peed the crib and had his dinner nakie style.

More pics of the move

I've finally put him down for a nap so we're going to see how many pics I can post before he wakes up and wants to be entertained.

Too late, he's awake and grabbing at the computer. oh well....I found a bunch of cute pics we never posted so I'll try and keep them in order as we go down memory lane.

Holy momma...did I swallow a basketball? We later found out the bulk of that was Rhys' butt.
























Here is our last day in San Jose. The apartment is empty and that is our little cottage that we brought Rhys home from the hospital to.

He's chillin our our empty bedroom before we headed over to the airport.
This is literally the entire place...small huh? :)
Nanny and Grandpa came down a week after we flew out here to help us unpack boxes. After a long day of working hard, we went to downtown Annapolis to thie AMAZING Irish pub, Galway Bay. Rhys loves his Nanny and Grandpa so much...he attacks Nanny's cheeks and tries desparately to get at Grandpa's 'shash.