Our growing family

Well, it's starting to seem more and more real each day.  In a matter of days we will be a family of 4!!!  I'm excited and nervous.  How will I handle two boys?  I know some days will be stressful, loud, obnoxious, and I will be wondering how on earth I will survive until thier daddy gets home.  But I know it will all be worth it.  I wouldn't trade it for anything being able to be here with my kids each day!  It's a sacrifce for us, but it's something I felt like I was born to do...be a mama, wife, housekeeper, cook, but most importanly watch my boys grow each day :)  These past two years with Charlie have been amazing.  He is the light of my life and alot of time I feel like a failure, but it only inspires me to be better.  Try harder...pray for more patience!!  I have a growing respect for my parents each day...raising 4 girls couldn't have been easy. To be perfectly honest I think 2 boys will be the max for this little green family!  I know it couldn't have been easy, but they did a great job!!  I hope to follow in thier footsteps and raise boys that turn out half a good, caring, kind, genrous and me & Chess and our siblings!  I feel like we are a pretty good crew of kids...we can't take the credit tho...it was the ones who raised us :)  so I wanna give a big shout out to our wonderful parents! We couldn't be the family we are with the families we came from!

On that note...see the post below for the most beautiful song I'm stealing from Amanda's post!  It explains it all...what life is all about!

So...today was a special day for Charlie and I.  The last full day of just the two of us.  We will have visitor and daddy for the weekend and then Monday he will have a baby brother to share me with!  So...for a special treat we made a huge mess!!  We pulled out the finger paints (washable of course) and I laid on teh bedroom floor and let him paint my baby bump!!

I must say...the biggest mess was the tub after we both bathed off!!!  Well, the next post will have Aiden pics...so stay tuned! 

Matthew West - Safe and Sound

2 weeks to go!

Actually just a little less than that!! Our csection is officially scheduled for Mon, Jan 17th at 2:30 pm.  I can't wait to meet little Aiden and see how Charlie does as a big brother!  I'm also pretty ready to not be pregnant anymore!!! I'm so tired, sore, and uncomfortable most of the night and day.  It's rough chasing after a toddler while being preggo for sure!  Aiden is still healthy and doing fine according to my dr checkups and I am not dialted at all as of yesterday afternoon!

Chess is on his last overnight trip hopefully until the baby comes.  He was hoping to not have to leave at all in Jan, but you know how things go.  He is currently stuck on the side of the road in Illinois with a dead battery (poor guy).  I know it's rough on him traveling so much, so I'm sure this was the last thing he needed after a long day!  Say a little prayer for a safe easy trip home tomorrow!

Charlie is doing good.  He is in his terrible 2s for sure!! Some days I wonder how I will make it with two, but I'm really cracking down on Charlie and trying to get him listening.  He is doing great about sleeping in his own bed all night (praise the Lord).  That is wonderful!!  Too bad, I'm not sleeping so great as of late :( Ah well...such is life!

Well, we had a good holiday, it was strange not being in Louisiana, but we enjoyed all our visitors and Charlie really racked up.  Now, I'm having fun picking army men and such up for every corner of the house (Thanks Aunt Donna ;) )

I've been really bad about taking pic lately.  In fact, I didn't take a single Christmas or Santa pic (bad mommy!)  I'll try to do better and post some pics on the next update.