Lately..

A few weeks ago I had a day off and so me and Cam went downtown to the Fire Museum. I've been wanting to take him forever and of course the day I take him it started raining :( We decided to go anyway and it was ok. I have to say I was expecting it to be more on a little kids level, but it was more advanced and "museum like". It was still fun for him to see the big red fire engine and the toy room full of tons of fire engines big and small, old and new. We have been to see mom at work (same as mine) downtown and to see a few of my coworkers. Cam loves going to meet CeCe for lunch!

 Cam dressed as Woody

 At the Fire Museum in front of all the toy fire engines

Cam wore his Fireman coat from CeCe and the new fire hat from the museum

The girls of my Sunday school class threw me and another pregnant friend, Stephanie a baby shower recently. It was so sweet and I could not believe how generous these women were! This was especially surprising since we haven't even been able to go very often since I started weekends at work. But we racked up! I also finished the nursery so all we need is a sweet new baby to fill it :)

The New Members Sunday School Ladies

Two weeks ago, Camden starting having what I thought was an allergic eye with redness, swelling and drainage. When it didn't go away after several days I started him on his antibiotic eye drops we were on last time he had conjunctivitis. After 3 days of this an no improvement and then a inflammed tissue hanging down into his actual iris/pupil I decided to make a trip to the pediatrician. Our MD is very nonchalant and never gets very excited about things, but one or two looks at his terrible eye and an immediate referral to the opthamologist we went! Luckily it was 2 doors down and they worked us in right then. The eye doctor did a dilated eye exam and informed me that it was a granuloma. It's a benign inflammation of the eyelid and it was caused by the eye infection going untreated for too long. I felt terrible!! But we were started on 4 times a day steroid eye drops and after a week the granuloma is almost gone. We have another full week of drops then tapering down over the next week. Cam really has been a trooper and didn't put up too much of a fuss over the drops which I thought was going to be a nightmare.

You can sort of see Cam's little lazy eye here on the left this is at the beginning of his eye drop treatment

 Aunt TT joined in on the snowman building fun with a mini me snowman :)

Also we have been getting a couple of snow days here lately. Two weeks ago we got 7 inches then another inch or two this past week. I'm praying that we don't get any around the delivery date!! Camden and Trey were able to build an almost indestructible snowman which lasted for 3 days! It started leaning on day 2 and on day 3 it leaned almost parallel to the ground. It was unbelieveable!


On another note, my pregnancy is almost through! At my last Dr's visit my OB thought that the heart rate was too high in my abdomen and that the baby could possibly be breech, so she scheduled us for another ultrasound. I was so nervous for a week imagining the worst only to have a great ultrasound. The baby was perfectly upside down like he/she is supposed to be and the amount of amniotic fluid level was good, the heart rate was great at 150 bpm and the weight was estimated at 7 lbs even (give or take 6 ounces). The doctor told me I was 2-3 cm dilated already so I anticipate that labor could happen at any moment! Keep us in your prayers over the next couple of weeks!

Southaven Christmas & Children's Museum

We had a busy Christmas once we got home from Texas. I actually had 10 days off in a row which was a Godsend! I haven't had that many days off since our summer vacation last May! I worked alot on Christmas gift shopping, the nursery and just little to do's that had been put on the back burner. We bought an old dresser and have been working to refinish it for the nursery. Camden helped me put the glaze on it. I still have another coat to go, but I already love it! On Thursday day we met the Dukes (our friends from college who were in town from Florida) at the Children's Museum in Memphis. It was too fun. Camden loved playing with Bryce and Ce Ce and was worn out after it was all said and done.

Cam helping me paint the baby's dresser :)

 CeCe Duke at the Children's Museum! Dont you love those pigtails??

 Camden scurried around the little grocery store loading his basket like he was on "Supermarket Sweep!"

 The boys rocking out on the green screen (they were in a music video on a big TV not pictured)

 CeCe in the little Escalade at the Museum

Cam fishing in the scaled down version of the Mississippi River

We did Christmas with Trey's family on Thursday night and Cam got spoiled as usual. He got a new John Deere bike, a Titan tackling dummy, Tonka trucks and much more! We all gave each other gifts $10 or less (minus Cam's gifts) which was nice for the budget!

Cam entertained us by talking smack to the Titan tackling dummy and knocking him down as well as placing him in "time out" for a short while! He was hilarious with that thing.

Santa's loot

 The Cresswell gifts under our new tree

 the notorious "big truck with all the cars in it" as Cam called it all December

Stuffing his face with yummy lunch that CeCe made!

 Opening presents with Walker and Gallegah

Fell asleep on my big belly after a big day :)

Friday morning (Christmas Eve) Santa made an early appearance to our house (mostly b/c I had to work Christmas morning and leave the house by 6 am). Cam got his big truck with all the cars in it that he had been asking for ever since the word Christmas was mentioned. He was excited about that and the Mater truck he got and had a blast playing with everything until my mom, dad, brother sister and Great Uncle came over for a huge lunch. We opened even more presents and needless to say by 5pm we were all tuckered out, Camden woke up from his nap grumpy and so I held him for a minute and before I knew it he had fallen back asleep on my belly. I couldn't help thinking how sweet it was that I had both of my babies in my lap and Christmas couldn't be more perfect! We are so blessed and are thankful for the birthday of our Jesus to make hope and everlasting life possible.