8 weeks old

Well our little man is 8 weeks old. Time is flying by!! He has been sleeping through the night for about a week now so that makes for a very happy mommy & daddy!!! Charlie is still doing good too since daddy boot camp a few weeks ago. Nothing too exciting going on here, but here are a few pics from our week...

Bathtime

Bedtime...how sweet, daddy reading to his two boys :) melts my heart <3

Wearing daddy's hat

my little guy helping out with the yardwork

And of course, Mr. Aiden taking it all in...

And of course we had a little Easter egg hunt. This boy was so happy to find candy in those eggs LOL That got him looking real good!!

Mama is busy

Well, I have officially survied my first "almost" full week of being home alone with the boys while Chess was in Chicago. I had a mini meltdown Tuesday when he left. I think a mixture of hormones and being scared to have any kind of help 5-10 hours away from me. I called mom & Chess and they managed to talk me through it. Charlie had a little virus to add to the fun, but he is all better and back to his good ole self now!! I swear that kid is not happy unless I am doing something for him every second of the day ;)

Aiden went for his 1 month checkup (at 6 weeks oops). He weighed 10lbs 2 oz and is growing good!! He is in the 50th percintile just like Charlie always was! They gave him his shots :( Man I hate that and she said he has something called tounge tie. Poor little fella has to have something clipped under his tounge next Wed. Say a little prayer for him & for me. Not sure who the procedure will be tougher on. They say it's minor and are doing it right there in the ENTs office. I will update everyone after it is done.

I also had my 6 week checkup and everything healed fine. I am good to start my workout routine and try to get back into shape!!! I will be looking forward to the gym just to get an hour to myself each day!! The boys seems to do good in the nursery there, so that is a plus!

Other than that, not too much to report. Charlie is getting really into baseball. He's been watching the Sandlot and is obessed...he reminds me a lot of Matthew at that age! Im' still working on getting Aiden sleeping through the night. He goes about 4-5 hours but it's usually from 7 or 8 pm until midnight or 1. I need to change that from 10pm until 5am!! I have been so sleep that I haven't had the energy to stay up until 10 and feed him LOL. Maybe the gym will help with that too!

Now...some pics :)

sorry there are just a few. I will be mailing birth annoucements soon :)

Welcome Aiden Carter

We were so happy to welcome Aiden Carter Green into the world on January 17th at 3:29 pm via csection.  The little guy was 6 lbs 15 oz and 20.5 inches long.  He is one handsome baby boy!!  His birth was much less dramatic than his big brothers.  I had a planned csection this time and it was very nice.  I was so happy to hear his cry that I teared up a bit.  I was so happy to hear that we was here and was healthy.  I didn't get to hold him for a few hours, but I've made up for it the past couple of weeks :)

My mom & dad were here for about a week and half after he was born and were such a big help.  I was pretty sore and couldn't get up and around much, so taking care of a toddler was a hard task.  Thankfully I had plenty of help!  They took Charlie with them for a Baton Rouge visit when they left so we are anxiously waiting for him to come home!! I was going to get him today, but due to bad weather, I will have to wait until tomorrow!  Charlie is doing great with the baby so far, hopefully when it's just the 3 of us and daddy is back and work and all our visitors are gone, he will still do just as well!!

Aiden is a good baby and so far a great sleeper...he did not get this from big brother LOL.  He is only waking up once a night for a feeding and goes right back to sleep!!  He usually wakes up around 5am when daddy is getting ready for work, but goes back to sleep after eating, so I've been taking advantage and getting some extra sleep then too!!!  Well, enough rambling I guess...here are some pics!

They took some pretty cute pics at the hopsital.  If you go to this link http://our365.com/NewbornPortraits/Default.aspx?SM=ByFamily&BY=2011&BM=1&BD=17&FC=Olive+Branch&FCY=US&FS=MS&MLN=Gre

and enter this password (411501348662237) you can view them.

And here are a few more...thanks mom for making the slideshow.

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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.

Mama's Hungry

Here are a few playing around pics my friend Hollie took of me to document the pregnancy.  I'm 33 weeks along in them.

More to come, but these are the ones she sent me so far!  My friend Carley is working on getting the stain out of the purple shirt for me and editing them up a bit :)  Thanks girly!!

Not too much to report, Charlie and I have been hanging around the house a good bit. I've been cleaning and organizing (I guess nesting).  We are going to try to get Chess to take us to the Christmas Villiage at the Agricenter in Memphis this weekend.  They have a  live nativity, live reindeer, santa, lights, rides, etc.  The only bad thing is my camera is in the shop getting a "tune up" so I'll have to depend on our phones for any good pics!!

I got on the waiting list for MDO (moms day out) program at a local church that starts in Jan.  It would be Tues and Thurs 9-2.  Charlie was with me and he was very disappointed he didn't get to stay that day!!! It would be awesome if we made the list and he loved it!!! It would give him something to do during the week and me some time with Aiden.  I was suprised, he actually CRIED that he couldn't stay!!!!  He's also doing better with sleeping.  I've been a bad momma and have been getting in bed with him most nights so we all get a good nights sleep.  Chess decided it needed to end before Aiden's arrival so he took over.  Usually, when Chess firmly tells him to stay in bed and tucks him in, he won't bother us the rest of the night.  In fact 2 nights this week, we didn't even hear from him once!!!  That is going to be a huge blessing when I'm up feeding Aiden every 3 hours, not to mention it's nice now, since I"m already having trouble getting a good nights sleep!  NOW...if we could just get the kitty kat out of the bed ;)

I got back to the dr. Monday and then back two weeks from then for my 36 week "check" and an ultrasound...I'll update more then.

Charlie and I are paitently waiting for all of our Christmas visitors to come up!! Mom, Dad, Tracy, Kim and Matt are coming up week after next for a few days.  Chess's dad and stepmom are coming up for Christmas eve and day.  Ms. Kendra and Gene are coming up the week between Christmas and New Years!! It should be fun, we miss everyone so much!!