Sunday's Surprise....

Someone decided to join our family four weeks early....

Riley Easton Creel

6 pounds

18 inches

May 24, 2009

What's New?

Things have been staying busy around here and I am too lazy to find the time to document it. Here are a couple pictures of what we've been up to.

Mikey went to his first baseball game. There's a triple A team here in Lancaster called the Jethawks and we went to a game a couple weeks ago. Mikey actually only watched minutes of the game. Not because he was running around, but because he was OBSESSED with the mascot. He has a picture of him in his room. We thought he'd be scared but he couldn't take his attention off of him. It was funny.

Mikey and Michael have enjoyed watching the Lakers games together. They barely made it past this last series and we're hoping for less nailbiting games coming up. I love watching Mikey and Michael together. Michael is Mikey's hero 100%.

Michael's sister and mom threw me a diaper shower about a week ago. It was beautiful. It's hard accepting a shower when you're having your second boy, but it was fun to get a break and get together with my friends. Here's a quick picture of the stash. Sorry it's not a very good one. We were really blessed and got way more than we needed.

Don't mind the mess in the crib, but these are the diapers and wipes we got at the shower. I am happy to report that I won't have to buy diapers for the first few months of our little guys life, maybe longer. Everyone is SO generous. I'm hoping I won't have to buy Mikey diapers either, but potty training isn't going so well....

Michael's sister made me this adorable diaper cake.

And gave me these beautiful roses.

Here's the only belly shot I have this whole pregnancy. I told you I've been lazy. Here I am at 34 weeks. I've been warning you I'm huge!

Training the dog has been going better than expected. She is behaving really well and we're happy with her. Mikey loves her. She gives him hi-fives and he thinks it's the coolest thing.

And, if you were thinking my son looked like a sweaty mop-head in all his pictures, you were right. I finally got up the guts to hold him down and let him cry his way through a haircut. It wasn't pretty and it took forever, but I'm happy with the results. Here's my cutie! Two in less than two weeks! Wow! This is his attempt at smiling for the camera. We're working on it.

As I've been promising, there are more pictures to come. We have yet to post pictures of the house or anything because I am weird and want it to all be finished. So, the nursery and Mikey's room should be finished this week and hopefully we'll be getting our new flooring as well. It would've been done sooner but I've been sucked into a few good books while Mikey napped instead of working on the projects that keep piling up. But, the nesting instinct is hitting hard and this is bound to be a productive week!

Pretty Colors

I love the colors this time of year. Everything is so bright and vibrant.

This is the tree in our front yard. It's been looking dead since we moved in so we were quite surprised to see it so beautiful. I love it!

Mikey is getting old so fast. I know he looks like an old man in these pictures, but that's not quite what I'm talking about. He's just so big though....

Monterey

This past weekend we stayed in Salinas with Michael's grandma and we had a really good time. We took Mikey to the aquarium and just enjoyed spending uninterrupted time together.

(Sorry for the upcoming picture overload)

A cute picture of my guys in the back yard.

Mikey holding his cousin, Kaston. He was in love with this baby.

I know he's not smiling, but he was distracted. I still like it. This was on the street by the aquarium.

Mikey was in heaven with all the fish. The seahorse exhibit was the last thing we saw, so he wasn't too interested, but they were cute.

We all loved the jellyfish

The penguins were cute

Mikey wanted to stay with Nemo and Dory all day.

Michael got to touch the bat ray. I wasn't long enough.

The restaurant we ate at on the wharf after the aquarium. I had a really good calamari steak..mmmm.

View from our table.

Mikey and Michael on the patio outside the aquarium.

Family photo...gotta love my big belly and my hair flying everywhere...what can ya do?

Mikey wouldn't even touch the star fish. He thought they were "ucky"

It took a lot to get Mikey to take his eyes off the giant fish tank and look at the camera.

Mikey loved the sharks. They were also his daddy's favorite.

He thought the otters were going to get him they got so close to the glass. They were show-offs.

There were these talking birds outside the restaurant that Mikey thought were pretty cool.

Outside the aquarium.

There was a seal on the beach when we were leaving the wharf. It was soaking up the attention and posing. Funny.

We had a really great trip and wish we could do it all the time. We highly recommend the aquarium. Thanks for everything, Grandma!

Easter and Ultrasounds

So, I'm a forgetful mother and didn't take any pictures of Mikey on actual Easter when he was dressed up all nice, but I did get some pictures of him participating in an Easter egg hunt his auntie Sara organized for him on Saturday. He did surprisingly well. He knew just what to do and took home quite the haul. Which Michael and I, of course, appreciated.

We had an ultrasound on Tuesday to check up on our little guy and he's 3 pounds 7 ounces already and still breech, but we have a while for him to turn. I'm a little nervous that he's going to be a giant baby by the time he's ready to come out. They did a 4-D for us and we got a good one of his little, but chubby, face. I think he looks like Mikey. We've gotten mixed opinions. Sorry it's crooked, I scanned it in a hurry.

I can't wait to meet him. We're almost done with the nursery, and we re-did Mikey's room, too, so pictures of that to come whenever we get it finished.

Craving of the Week....

Lucky Charms Treats...I'll never eat Rice Crispie Treats again