Happy Birthday Daddy!

Kris celebrated his 35th birthday last week. He was excited that his mom would be visiting us and he asked her to make his favorite lasagna for his dinner. Emma helped me make a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting at his request also. He got some great gifts. Besides curtains for Emma's room from me, he also got tickets to the monster truck rally this past weekend. He and Ryan had a great time - although they said they'd bring ear plugs next time. They got there early enough to get to go see the trucks on the floor.

We're almost done with our visitation times after Nick's birth. Grammie will be leaving tomorrow. We are so happy that my mom, Kris's mom and Robin have been able to come out and help us out. Here are pictures of what they did (aka - hold the baby).

Ryan and Emma have been keeping us busy. One of Ryan's favorite things to do when there is company is be 'Mrs. Nickell' - his preschool teacher. He gets a chair, puts a cushion on it and a stool in front and reads books to us. I'm still trying to get it on video, but I did get a picture.

And in case you're interested in how Nick is doing. I've included a pic above. He's doing well. Eating and sleeping pretty well. He has his one month appointment next week. So we'll get to see what they say. I've tried to weigh him here. On the big scale I got about 11 lbs, which I didn't think was right. So I put him in some Tupperware (fun stuff going on in our household) and put him on the diaper scale we have for our diaper study and he was 9 1/2 lbs. I can't believe he'll be a month on Saturday. The time flies!