My New Room!!

So Here's My New Room Everyone!!!  Didn't Mommy and Daddy do a good job!!  I love it!  It's so cool to have a big boy room!!  Now Mommy just has to finish Jayce's Room - but she's still got plenty of time. 

Well, Daddy had another phone interview this week, but that's the latest news on the job search.  Mommy only has one more week of work left, so Daddy's getting a little anxious.  I hope he gets a job, but I'm gonna miss him staying home and playing with me!!  He plays with me a lot more than Mommy does, she just usually sits and watches me!  Today Daddy took me and Greg to the playground.  It was so much fun!!  He pushes really high on the swings.  Then we went to see Mommy at work.  Daddy dropped me off so Mommy could take me home and he could go running.  Did you know my Daddy's gonna run a Marathon!!!  That's 26.2 miles long!!!  I can't believe it!!  It's coming up in a couple weeks (not this Sunday, but next Sunday).  AND - It's a trail run, so he's not running on paved roads in town, he's running on mountain trails - the same ones he goes mountain biking on!!!  This weekend he did a training run and ran 20 miles!!  Mommy and I are so proud of him!!  He's worked so hard to get this far, I really hope he does a good job on race day.  And even if he doesn't, WOW - can you believe he ran 20 miles!!!  I can't - that's really far!!  My Daddy is so cool!!  I really love him a lot! 

The same weekend as Daddy's race is Elk Fest in Estes Park.  That's when we go and listen to all the elk bugling in Rocky Mountain National Park.  I really like going to see the elk.  It's a lot of fun. And that's all we really have coming up.  Oh, Mommy wants me to ask everyone to pray for my Grandma Wilson.  She's been kinda sick, and so she's in the hospital trying to get better.  I wish I could go visit her and give her a kiss so she'd feel better, I always feel better after Mommy kisses my owies.  So please pray for her, and we'll catch you all later!!

Jayce Moway Louie

After much back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth, I think we have finally settled on a name for the baby.  Jayce Moway Louie.  Mommy has liked the name Jayce for a while, and Daddy finally decided he couldn't find another name he liked better and agreed, with the condition that he can call him Ace!!  Daddy also picked out the middle name Moway, which means Fearless, after some help from Grandpa Louie.  We are all very excited to be able to call this little guy something other than "little guy", or "baby"!!  We've also decided to go with a more narrowed down version of the nursery than when Riley was in it, and have the theme of "Ten Little Monkeys".  Mommy is going to paint a chocolate brown mural on the wall of silhouetted Monkeys and Trees, making the room more brown and green as opposed to the green and blue that Riley had.  That way it's a little more personal for Jayce, and not just all leftovers from his big brother!!  Most of the bedding and everything will stay the same, since it matches with the theme, with the exception of a few additions like the mural, accents, blankets, and possibly curtains. 

Similarly - Riley's room is almost finished!!  The mural is done, including his name in Chinese Characters on the opposite wall, and most everything is cleaned out.  Mommy and Daddy are adding a shelf (high up) so that we can keep some of the more breakable things displayed in the room, and some blackout curtains under the current sheers to help with the heat and sun in the east facing windows.  These will be a trial to see if we want to add them in Chocolate brown in Jayce's room, and perhaps some other rooms as well!!  ;)  We are hoping to get these things accomplished this weekend and have pictures for everyone to see next week - with Riley moved in within that same time frame.  Then we will be starting on Jayce's room!! 

We also wanted to mention Riley's massive growth spurt this summer!!  We didn't buy him any new summer clothes this year, since most everything still fit him from last year (it's amazing the difference in clothes sizes that diapers make!!).  But we knew that he would definitely need some more stuff this fall and winter.  Well, we have barely made it through the summer with his current clothes, and this weekend we decided it was time to try on winter stuff and pack up the old and go get some new.  And it couldn't have come soon enough!!  Over the summer this boy SHOT UP!!  I had supplemented his wardrobe with a few 3T t-shirts, but the long sleeved stuff we had was way to small (I'm talking cuffs closer to elbows than wrists!!).  And pants . . . well, thankfully a friend of mine had given me a pair of 4 slim levi's that she bought but didn't fit her boys, because those are currently the only pair of pants that fit him!!!  Last year on clearance I had bought some 3T and 4T thermal pajamas (thankfully thinking ahead), and we found that the 4T's are doing just fine!!!  So we went to Carter's at the outlet mall (big 50% off sale + Mommy had a coupon = Cheap winter wardrobe for Riley!!), and shopped til, we dropped!!!  Riley got 5 new shirts (size 4T) and 3 new pairs of pants (3T - and adjustable waist - poor skinny kid is so hard to fit!!!) and we even got Jayce a onesie that matches one of Riley's t-shirts - Big Brother/Little Brother.  SO cute!! 

Anyways, that's what's up with us this week.  Hopefully we'll get Riley's new room done this weekend and pictures of it up for you all to see next week!!  So check back by later!!!

Dragons & Parades

Did you have a fun Labor day weekend? I did!!! Mommy got the whole weekend off work so we got to spend the whole time together!! We didn't do anything special really, but that's ok - it was still fun!! Mommy spent most of the weekend on my new room. She painted me a Chinese Dragon on the wall!!! it's sooooo COOOOOlll!!! She even put the Chinese Character for Dragon next to it!! Didn't she do a good job!!! She wants to put my name on the wall too, but she's still deciding where. Cuz there's some other pictures that she and Daddy want to keep on the walls that they got on their trip to China with Grandma & Grandpa. So once they figure all that out and finish it, and then clean out the room and put my stuff in it, I GET MY NEW ROOM!!!! I'm so excited!! I already love it! Mommy and Daddy don't like me playing in there with all the stuff right now, but they don't know that I sneak in there when they aren't looking!! hehehe!! My Favorite part is jumping on the bed!!
Anyways - On Monday Windsor had a parade for Labor Day . . . yep, ANOTHER parade!!! This one was a LOT bigger than the one in Severance, and so I got a lot more Candy!! Yum!!! My favorite things (other than the candy of course) were the tractors and the horses - and there were a lot of horses, but I didn't like the bands and the loud music floats. Those hurt my ears! And guess what, I get to go to ANOTHER Parade in a couple weeks!!! CSU's Homecoming parade is soon, only Mommy won't get to be in it this year. But that means she can sit with us and watch it!

In Other News . . . Daddy has a job interview on Friday. It's for a Temporary job (Daddy calls it a Contract job - whatever that means), but it's better than nothing!! So wish him good luck!! And Mommy does NOT have Gestational Diabetes!!! YAY!! She tested "borderline" at her 1 hour glucose test, so they made her do the 3-hour test!! (she said it was way sucky!!!) She couldn't have anything to eat for more than 15 hours!! But everything came back normal, so she's got a clean bill of health! YAY!! That means my baby brother is healthy too!! Mommy and Daddy still can't agree on a name for him . . . I hope they decide soon! But they did find some really cute Monkey things for him and his room. I can't wait to meet him!! Have a good week everyone!