Happy Birthday Little Man!

2 years ago today

(actually this may have been day 2 or 3, but day one was too scary for pics!)

1 year ago today

And Mr. 2 year old today!

How our life has changed in two years...of course for the good.  Can't imagine our life with out this little fellow!!  He woke us up before 6 this morning (his favorite pasttime).  I got dressed and went on teh search for donuts.  Apparantly there is no donut shop in Olive Branch, MS so I ended up at BP where they had a case of Krispy Cream (no chocolate :( ) He ate a couple of donut holes and really doesn't seem to know it's his birthday!  I am going to take him to the park to play and have pizza and cupcakes after while!  I hope he really enjoys his day.  I will do my best to make it all about him (how is that different than any other day, right??)

His birthday party was last weekend and I was a fun time!  I think he enjoyed it and we all enjoyed all of our company.  We had Nanna, PawPaw, Gran, Pops, Maw Maw and PaPaw Green, Aunt Kimmie, Uncle Jeff, Matt, Aunt Tracy, Aunt Julie, Aunt Lisa, and Jill all come in town for the party!  Charlie was thrilled to have everyone he loves in one place!  We missed the Aunt Donna, Uncle Lane, Riley, Hailey, Uncle Rhett, and Uncle Forrest though!  Hopefully we wll see them all very soon!  The party was at my friend HOllie's house and we had a hayride, bouncer, pinata and all the kids had fun running around and playing! Of course he got a ton of stuff too!

What a week!

I picked Charlie up from his Baton Rouge visit in Jackson on Sunday, we met Gran and Pops.  They were waiting for us at a neat little mall letting Charlie play in the water sprayer.  He was having a ball...I noticed he was a little bit fussy, but figured he was just worn out from too much fun.  Well, Sunday night just before bed, he sarted running fever :( It got up to about 102.5 and gave us a restless night.  Monday he was cranky, but not too warm so I didn't worry about bringing him right to the dr.  Well, Monday night the fever was back.  His poor little body was burning up and he was getting sick to his stomach.  After some motrin and some snuggling with mommy he was able to fall back asleep, but was up by 5AM...YIKES.  Well, I brought him to the dr, and they said it was probably a virus, that much I figured.  He has been doing much better since Monday night, just extra cranky and that combined with still waking up before 5 is making for a tough week for him and I.  Chess had to go up north for the week and Charlie's best bud (and her mommy) are out of town for the week too.  They are pretty much the only people we hang out with on a regular basis so it's been a tough week!  We will survive though.  We met up with the moms group at the zoo today.  It got up in the 90's which is it hasn't done here in a couple of weeks.  We enjoyed it for a while, but Charlie ended up falling asleep and I was hot and worn out so we headed home!  The tiger was his favorite...he thought it was Mike!

Tomorrow we are meeting them at Incredible Pizza and I'm gonna run to the party store to finish up getting stuff for Charlie's 2nd birthday party!! I cannot belive he is going to be two years old...time flies!

Here he is just about a year ago...what a difference a year makes!!

Just a funny little sidenote...yesterday at the store Charlie just had to have some spiderman popcicles when I tossed them in the buggie I decided to pick up some fudge pops for me and Aiden :)  Well, guess what Charlie likes...

and...as promised, the pics of Aiden from last Friday's ultrasound...notice in the 2nd one he is chillin with his legs crossed!!  He must be cozy!

Here, There and EVERYWHERE

That's how we feel lately!  We've been running around and staying busy doing this and that.  Thursday I met my mom in Jackson and she took Charlie for a couple of nights.  Ms. Kendra has him now for the weekend and I will meet her on Sunday in Jackson to pick the little booger up.  I signed up for a booth at a flea market and Charlie has been asking for everyone so I figured it was the perfect weekend! We sure do miss him though, the house is a little too quiet for our liking!

I went back to the dr today and everything is good with me and baby Aiden.  His heartrate was still in teh 150s and that is great.  They did an ultrasound and check everything from his brain, to his heart, to his kidneys, they even checked his nose and lip!!!  Everything looked great.  He is weighing about a pound and measuring right on target!!  We are planning to do a csection around Jan 17th (39 weeks) and it will be put on teh books about 3 weeks out, so maybe a little after Christmas!  We are excited, I've been starting to feel him move around a lot and it is such an amazing feeling!!!  I have some more pics, but I will upload them later on.  I'm sleepy tonight and can't get my scanner to work (HAHA).  I really have been so much more worn out with this pregancy than I remember with Charlie, I'm not sure why.  I haven't been sleeping great, we went out tonight and bought a body pillow for me to cuddle so hopefully that helps LOL.

I was at Gymboree today for a pretty good sale they were having and I could resisit.  I had to get these outfits for Charlie and Aiden....

I'm hoping they can wear them home from the hospital and maybe even get some pics taken ;)

Well, Charlie and daddy watched thier first LSU football game of the season last weekend.  I think Charlie really enjoyed it, he has been loving all of the LSU fight songs and anything to do with football for a while, so watching the game was fun for him.  Of course, he conked out at halftime, but he tried his best HAHA. His dad is so proud that he is loving football and LSU in particular!  Here is a pic of the two watching the game

Is that cute or what???

Keeping Busy!

Its the same old same old around here.  Keeping busy as usual!!  Charlie's new obsession is LSU Football and his daddy is sooooo very proud!  He likes to listen to the fight song over and over, have me sing the fight song all day long, he watches his baby tiger dvd and even wants me to pull up the band and mike the tiger on youtube for him to watch LOL.  Hopefully he will enjoy sitting and watching an LSU football with daddy just as much so I can have a few hours of quite time, but I doubt it!

Charlie is really growing and turning into a talkative little booger!! He says new things everyday, sentences almost.  Some things are pretty hard to understand,but some things are clear as day!  He woke me up this morning and told me he poo pooed in the bed LOL...actually it was just a wet diaper that leaked, but it's amazing to have him start telling me things. He helped daddy wash the car this weekend.  He had fun, he loves helping us out with everything.  It went good until Charlie started dipping his scrub brush in teh dirt and rubbing it on the car rather than the soap bucket HAHA

I've been sewing up a storm the past couple of days.  My friend and I signed up for a booth at a little flea market in town.  It was cheap to sign up and we figured it was a few days out of the house and we could try to sell some stuff!  Charlie is going to Baton Rouge to visit a few days so I won't have to worry about him.  I know I'm gonna have to find a babysitter around here, but it's a hard thing to do!! You just never know with people these days!

well, that's all i have for now, I will update more after the flea market!

It's a BOY

Well, the aniticipation is over...we finally know we are having another sweet little boy!!! Lots of trucks, trains, and tools will be at our house for sure!!  Luckily, this means I don't really need to buy much at all for the new baby!  I do have a small "wish list" but nothing i must have right away or anything I wanted to buy today.  I went to Babies R Us after with a 20% coupon and really couldn't find a thing to pick up!!  I got Charlie a Diego digital camera that was on sale to save for either Christmas or his bday!! 

Well, Chess was cleaning up outside this weekend and came across a pretty decent sized poisonous snake :(  He killed but now I am terrified to take Charlie outside to play...thats a shame.  I am hoping one doesn't find its way into our house, I would freak out for sure!!  I'm sure after it cools down it won't be as much of an issued.  I guess one a year isn't bad considering we live on a pond...it just freaks me out!

I'm also bummed that my sewing/embrodery maching broke.  I had to drop it off at the shop today.  Hopefully they will have it fixed soon, I have some waiting projects to work out.  This heat is getting me so tired lately I don't really have the energy to do much anyway.  It's hard enough to keep the house and laundry up and look after Charlie poo!

Here are some recent pics, I will update more later this week!

Top 10 baby boy names

Ok, after many good suggestions we managed to narrow the list down to our 10 favorites.  Chess and I have had some trouble agreeing, but here is what we got!  Let the voting begin.  Vote for you LEAST favorite name everyday.  We will see what is left standing...a tiny disclaimer, the winner doesn't mean Chess and I are going to pick that name for sure.  I just thought this would be a fun way to get lots of ideas and opions!

Walter Ritchie
Cameron Ritchie
Alex Ritchie
Alex Walter
Jonah Robert
Carter Ritchie
Nathan Carter
Colin Walter
Colin Carter
Carter Robert

In other news...

Gran and Pops came for a visit this weekend and we had fun.  Charlie especially loved playing golf with Pops!!  I think Pops liked it just as much, he is excited to see how much Charlie likes golf!

We rode into memphis and visited Mud Island River Park.  We didn't stay long though, it was too hot!! Other than that, Gran cooked for us and helped me get things clean and we just visited.  It was nice.  After church this morning, they headed back home.  We are excited for them and the rest of the family to come for Charlie's bday party soon!!

Not much else going on.  I've been tired and queasy thanks to little no name Green LOL..let the voting begin.

here is my growing belly (and behind) at 16 weeks!

Baby Boy Names

Alright Peeps!

I need help picking a name for a baby boy.  Here is a list of names I like, feel free to mix them up however for first and last...also, add any others you really like or think are cute!  I will put together a list of the top 10 and we can start voting from there...then I'll do top 5, top 3, and the winner!  I'm gonna do this on the blog and also via email so I can get everyone to play!!  Feel free to join in either way, I'm gonna post the top 10 list on Monday all submission needs to be in my Sunday evening!

I hope everyone plays, it won't be fun unless you do so make sure and vote PLEASE!!!!  Here is the list I came up with so far (with help):

Mark
Alex
Max
Nathan
Walter
Colin
Jonah
Caden
Cullen
Ritchie
Caine
Aiden
Dylan
Robert

Here is what I have gotten so far:

Aiden Ritchie Green
Aiden Walter Green
Nathan Ritchie Green
Nathan Walter Green
Walter Ritchie Green
Dylan Michael Green
Cameron Ritchie Green
Clayton Ritchie Green
Dylan Mark Green
Ritchie Cullen Green
Max Weston Green
Max Owen Green
Alex Ritchie Green
Ritchie Colin Green
Ritchie Alex Green
Mark Ritchie Green
Mark Walter Green
Max Walter Green
Walter Ryan Green
Nicholas Walter Green
Luke Anthony Green
George Ritchie Green
Christoper Walter Green
Christoper Ritchie Green
Jesse Robert Green
Jesse Colin Green
Ritchie Oliver Green
Ritchie Cole Green
Ritchie Kyle Green
Ritchie Cayden Green
Ritchie Alexander Green
Owen Walter Green
Owen Ritchie Green
Ritchie Nathaniel Green
Robert Dylan Green
Josh Aiden Green
Max Cullen Green
David Nathan Green
Robert Nathan Green
Mark Alex Green
Cullan Alex Green
Alex Walter Green
Aiden Caine Green
Dylan Caine Green
Mark Caden Green
Max Nathan Green
Jonah Robert Green
Nathan Walker Green
Zachary Jacob Green
Michael Larry Green
Jackson Ritchie Green
Logan Ritchie Green
Clayton Ritchie Green (Clay)
Grant Ritchie Green
Cullen Ritchie Green
Reed Ritchie Green
Davis Ritchie Green