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!!!