Meet Dylan

After several hours of waiting around, Dylan Noble finally came into the world at 6:34 pm this evening. It had been a day full of anticipation as Amber was scheduled to go into the hospital first thing this morning. Things went pretty slowly for several hours, and then it all happened at once. Being adoptive parents, all we could do was wait. I think it's almost like the way things used to be, when the dad would get a phone call telling him he had a new baby boy. When we got the call, we raced down to the hospital to meet little Dylan.


We arrived at the hospital just in time for Tara to get a bracelet and head into the nursery for Dylan's first bath. What a cute kid. He weighs 8lbs. 3oz. and is 20 inches long (isn't every baby 20 inches long?) and has little tufts of light colored hair. While Tara bathed him we learned immediately that this kid has a good set of lungs, as you could hear him screaming through the glass - can you blame him though, it was a pretty tough day...





Kennedy and Alex were so excited to see their new baby brother. On the way to the hospital Dede had a checklist of her new duties to care for Dylan. "Give him his bottle, make sure he has a binkie, burp him so he doesn't have air in his belly." The list went on and on. As we watched Tara with Dylan the kids were beaming. They kept trying to get the baby's attention and couldn't wait for the chance to hold him.

We spent a couple of hours with Amber and Dylan, before we needed to bring some exhausted kids home for bed. Birth mom is doing great (what a trooper!) and, much to our surprise, she gave us presents for our family and the baby. Can you believe it? Like she didn't have enough on her mind already! It was an amazing night and we can't wait to get back to hospital tomorrow to see Baby Dylan.