32 weeks down...7 weeks to go!

I went to the dr this week and everything is looking good.  Baby's heartrate was 135 and he said that was normal.  My belly was growing good, which means little Aiden is growing good too!!  He is a very active little booger.  Much more active than I remember Charlie being, but I could have forgotten.  It's fun to just sit there and watch my belly do flip flops.  I go back to the dr. in two weeks and as of now, we are still planning to do a csection at 39 weeks - sometime around Jan 17th.

Chess, Charlie, and I got all our Christmas stuff out and put up Thanksgiving day after we ate lunch.  We (I) just couldn't wait...

As you can see, my little helper was very willing to help decorate the tree :)  we've been to see Santa twice and while he likes the idea of Santa, you can forget about him going anywhere near him or his lap LOL.  We even have a blowup santa in his room and he likes us to blow santa up, but he makes us turn him off before he will go in his room HAHA silly boy!

The most wonderful time of the year!

It's getting to be that time again.  I can't belive it!  Charlie doesn't remember much from Christmas last year so I am reminding him about Santa, Christmas Trees, and little baby Jesus!  He's catching on pretty quick.  Yesterday we were headed out to the mall to get some pictures made and I knew Santa would be there so I asked him a few times if he wanted to go see Santa and sit in his lap and he said he did.  He was very excited and said that he would tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas and let Santa hold him.  Well, when we actually walked in he froze up!  He got very scared and held on to me very tight.  So...mom had to sit next to Santa and hold Charlie...Oh well, better pic than last year.

2009

 2010

sorry the image is so bad, I took a pic of the pic with my cell phone because my scanner is broken.  The pictures went pretty good at Portrait Innovations too.  I just can never decide which ones to order...I like so many!

I can't belive how soon we will have another little one around here.  I am 31 weeks and we will be meeting baby Aiden in about 8 weeks or so!!  Here is a recent belly pic.  I'm looking pretty rough, just a warning!

He is a pretty active little guy.  Every night when I'm laying in bed, he really gets to kicking LOL.  Sounds like he will follow in the footsteps of his big brother -- he already loves keeping mommy awake!!  I'm having trouble getting a good night sleep, it's so hard to get comfortable!!!

I'm doing good on my new medicine.  I thought it was making me feel less tired and maybe it is, but this last week, the tired hit back full force!! It may be becasue of the above mentioned difficult sleeping...

The moms group is giving me a baby shower on December 8th!! I don't need a whole lot this time around, but it's still  a very nice gesture!! I'm sure I will get things I didn't even realized I needed again!  I did make a registry at Babies R Us and realized some things I did need!  I also found a few cuties that I didn't need, but couldn't resist ;)

Chess, Charlie, and I will be spending our first Thanksgiving away from home (Baton Rouge) this year :(  Chess is going to be on-call all week/weekend and I'm just not up for making teh trip myself this late in the pregnancy.  Not to mention, I"m sure chess doesn't wanna sit here all alone Thanksgiving Day!!  We have some friends that will be around too so we are going to thier house and will cook there!! Chess is going to try is hand at frying us a turkey!! Hope we all survive LOL  I"m going to make greenbean casserole, sweet potato casserole, pecan pie, and homemade ice cream.  I've helped mom cook over the years and feel pretty confident I won't mess those up...we will let you all know how it turns out!

Last time we were in BR charlie made his first football game (Parkview Baptist with Gran & Pops) and he also tailgated at LSU for the (LSU Vs ULL- MOnroe game)  I will leave you with some pics...he had a blast!

Trick or Treat

While Charlie enjoyed trick or treat this year, he didn't quite understand what all was going on.  He was actually sick running a fever all weekend :( and missed trick or treat in our neighborhood Sat night.  He did however enjoy helping daddy answer the door for all the trick or treaters and pass out candy! (he also ate a bit himself)  He liked seeing all the kids dressed up and thought it was cool that they were all coming to visit him for a minute!  Sunday night we got all dressed up and took him up to the church for trunk or treat...he was pretty confused by this and not really into it so we passed out candy and then stopped in another neighborhood on the way home where we spotted some trick or treaters.  He liked it better, but we only managed to hit a few houses.  I'm glad he got to go, but feel like he will do much better next year!

and here are a few of us carving out our pumpkin a few days before...now this was my first time to carve a pumpkin myself start to finish and I think it turned out pretty good!

In other news, I'm feeling pretty good.  I actually don't feel as tired as I did since taking the new medicine.  I guess that is a good thing.  I haven't taken a nap all week ;)

Charlie is growing and learning...he surprises me daily!  Today he was looking for something and he told me "It's in Aiden's room"  I didn't even know he knew that was Aidens room LOL.  We are going to work on some Thanksgiving cards for the family.  Look for them in the mail!!

Love and kisses from us all!