Trip Home & Surprise Party

After a lovely four night stay at the Hotel UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center it was time to make the big trip back to Playa del Rey. Step one in that process was putting on actual clothes:



Next we got to break in the new car seat. Carson was somewhat disinterested:



All loaded up and ready to go. Nurse Pauleen took a family photo before we hit the road:



Despite being his first car ride ever, Carson didn't get too excited:



We arrived home to a surprise party thrown by Grandma and Grandpa Morris and the Baileys. Here cousin Vivian fulfills one of the most important parts of a surprise party -- yelling SURPRISE repeatedly.



Mary Jane and Vivian got to check out and play with their newest cousin. Here Carson reacts quite well to being held by MJ:



With the surprise party over it was back to standard operating procedure for Carson: