Thanksgiving in Effingham

We went to Effingham a couple weeks ago to celebrate Thanksgiving with the grandparents. Here we are at Grandma Vickie's. Mommy loves visiting Grandma Vickie because she takes the 6 am feeding and lets Mommy get a big chunk of sleep at once. I always feels rested when I come home from there! Plus, she makes really good coffee which I insist on drinking out of these little Frankoma mugs. Now that we aren't breastfeeding, I can have all of the caffiene I want again! Yay!

You Know What They Say About Big Feet!

A couple weeks ago, we went to Effingham to visit the Grandparents for Thanksgiving. Grandpa Bob and Grandma Linda couldn't believe how big Creux was getting! He fed him for the first time and Creux got to play, "Guess what actor Grandpa Bob can't remember the name of Game", which is always fun! :) It was Martin Mull by the way if anyone wants to know! I guess you had to be there. Creux was a good baby, like usual. He loves riding in the car. Oh! And these are his first shoes ever! Cammo! Grandpa Bob and Grandma Linda got them for him. His feet are huge! He's into 9-18 month old socks already!

Mommy's Baby Shower for Creux

Here are some pictures I took off of Aunt Ali's blog of Mommy's baby shower. Grandma Vickie and Debbie threw it for me. I was soooo surprised to see Alison! Other friends that attended were Joyce, Jen, Debbie, Peggy, etc. Family members who attended were Barb, Sally, Kathy, Grayson, Grandma Cheryl, Grandma Vickie, Aunt Zoe, Holly, Grandma Linda, Grandma Matilda, Barb Rieman, etc.

I think there might be a double chin in there somewhere in these pictures! Go Colts!

Where's the Watering Hole?

Here is a picture of Creux in his cowboy hat that Grandpa Bob and Grandma Linda got him! Hilarious!

Random pictures

Here are some pictures of Grandma Vickie when she came to stay with us for the week after we got home from the hospital, as well as random pictures of Creux and Grayson at her house this weekend. The following blogs are a little out of order, but I just got these pictures from Vickie so I wanted to get them all posted.

Darla and Terry Visit Creux

Terry and Darla came to visit Creux when Grandma Vickie went home. He was about two weeks old. They brought him a new outfit. It was so cute...and organic.

Visit to Grandma Vickie's

We made our first trip to Effingham last weekend. Creux slept the entire way down and back. Daddy and Mommy got to go see a movie together..Role Models. It was hilarious, but we really missed Creux and Grayson. Although, the break was nice. We also went to visit Grandma Linda. She had a blanket made for Creux and he loves it! It is the only thing he will sleep under now! We spent most of the weekend playing Uno Attack with Uncle Josh, Daddy, Grayson, Mommy, David, and Grandma Vickie. Grayson decided she wanted to be Uncle Josh's assistant instead...she had a ball! Creux also had his first visit to Walmart where we got to use his stroller for the first time. Jeremy saw about 50 people he knew in the 15 minutes we were there! He was such a proud papa.

Creux had a doctor appointment on Monday. He weighs 11 lbs 3 ozs now! He gained 2 1/2 pounds in 2 1/2 weeks! At this rate he will be bigger than his dad at the age of 6! He's quite the eater! His head is getting sooooo big! Tonight, only his Mommy could make him happy. I knew all of that vomiting would pay off and we would be really close!

Aunts and Uncles at Hospital

The Hospital Troopers

Creux has the same internal clock as his mother. Therefore, he was at his peak at about 2:01 am. Here are the pictures of the family members that drove up that evening and stuck it out for his early morning birth! I think they were all glad for the wait. I had to kick them out of the room at one point because I was having mean thoughts about them when they would talk during my contractions. Not their fault because I didn't tell them I was in that much pain, but I seriously wanted to hurt someone, anyone at that point! These are the after pictures with the baby when I didn't want to hurt my family anymore! lol

Hospital Photos

Here are some photos taken at the hospital that Grandma Vickie and Grandmpa Jim had put onto a CD for us. Please accept my apology for some of these pictures! You have to remember, that I was in labor or had just given birth in many of them!

The Trifecta

I forgot to post our story about Jeremy's rough evening. We were changing Creux's diaper, tag team style, a couple weeks ago. It was still mostly breastfed poo, so it was runny and yellow. It was such a bad blowout that we needed to get him in the shower. So Jeremy had Creux in his hands, naked, with both of them covered in it as I was running the baby bath. He had to be hosed off before we could put him in his bath because we didn't want to bathe him in dirty water. So Jeremy is holding him a foot or so away from him to avoid getting the poop on him, and Creux just pukes, projectile, all the way over to Jeremy's shirt! So we get him hosed off, and Jeremy now has been pooped on and puked on, and we finally get him into his bath. Creux proceeds to throw up two more times on Jeremy and as Daddy is getting him out of the bathtub, I see this tall, arch-like stream of water coming from Creux's direction, going onto Jeremy once again! He was peeing on his Daddy as he was getting taken out of the bathtub! So to sum it up, within 3 minutes, Jeremy had been pooped on, puked on, and peed on! I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe! Jeremy thought it was amusing as well, with the comment, "You've got to be kidding me!" coming out of his mouth three times that evening!

Grandma Cheryl and her Grandbabies!

Grandma Cheryl came over to visit with Zoe and Chris last
week as well. I can't believe how alert Creux looks in this
picture. And what's up with my so-called photogenic daughter?! She has to TRY to take a bad picture...and well, she succeeded! What a ham! Creux looks so big in her arms because she's like a third of Jeremy's size! When Daddy holds him he looks like a tiny little elf and with Grandma Cheryl, he looks like he's going to try out for the NBA next week! She has really bonded with Creux which is nice. Her baby boy moved to Cincinnati a couple weeks before he was born, which if I think about Creux moving out -- I'll have a break down! By the way, I think Creux is starting to look like my Dad, which means I might eventually have a child that looks like ME!

I just realized how little you have to write about when your world doesn't extend outside of your basement! I was reading Aunt Ali's blog for Ethan and she has all kinds of fun stories and places they go....and we are still in "shut-in" mode. Well, at least we are taking our first trip to Effingham this weekend. Maybe I'll have some better stories next week.....to be continued.

Zoe and Chris...built-in babysitters!

Zoe and Chris, Zoe's boyfriend of over a year
came over to visit last week. Doesn't Zoe's hair
look great!? (she was on on her way home from the hairstylist). Creux just loves these two crazy teenagers. And I think Chris has tried to smuggle him out in his sweatshirt a couple of times. I've never seen a 17/18 year old guy who loves babies so much! I can't wait until Creux's a little older and they can babysit! One of the many perks of having a sister younger sister who still needs a safe place to make out! Just kidding Dad!