New Chair!

 Merry Early Christmas To ME!!!  (and Jayce too, I guess!)  Cam was very generous with his first paycheck, and allowed me to get a new Rocker/Glider for the nursery!!  The one we had was just a cheap one that we got to "make do" with Riley, and it has seen better days.  It's not completely trashed, but it definitely needs a new seat cushion BAD!!!  So our thought is it will become the "play rocker" for when we get the play room finished (hopefully next year), and this will be our Nice Rocker!  The best part is it's La-Z-Boy, so it will Last, and last, and last - we hope!!  It will be used for kiddos, then eventually as an add on in the living room.  So we will definitely get our money's worth out of it - which thankfully wasn't much - gotta love clearance sales!! 

And as you can see, the room has one more addition too!  Last night we took Riley to Build-a-Bear Workshop and made a Monkey-shaped "Bear" for Jayce.  He was so cute.  He loved watching it get stuffed, and really loved the Heart Ceremony that they do to give your "Bear" a heart.  The only problem was convincing him that it was Baby Jayce's Monkey and not his!!  We got home and showed him His Teddy Bear Fozzy that Mommy and Daddy made for him before he was born, and then made a big deal about putting the monkey in Jayce's bed and Fozzy in His.  Let's hope it worked!!  Cam wanted to name the Monkey King Louie (yes, like in Jungle Book), so all we need now is a bear named Baloo and a cat named Bagheera (although Daddy would prefer a bengal cat named Shere Khan) to go with Mowgli and King Louie!! 

 And lastly, I thought I would add the latest picture of me and Jayce.  I'm now 35 weeks, and no more major contractions!!  I still get at least one or two every day, but that's all, so I'm not really concerned at this point.  My next doctor's appointment is Wednesday so I will probably discuss everything then with my doctor and see if anything is going to change.  Just a couple more weeks until I'm considered "Full Term", so then Jayce can make his appearance anytime he wants!!  (and the sooner the better - if you ask me!!)  He seems to be sitting so much further out in front than Riley ever was, and so it's really taking it's toll on my back.  Not to mention the 35 lbs. 3 1/2 year old who doesn't realize that Mommy can't pick him up right now!!

Other than that things are going good around here!!  Our house is pretty much a disaster - since I've been trying to take it easy and not do too much or get overstressed, but Cam's been really great about picking up the slack on making dinners, doing dishes, and helping out with Riley.  He is still really liking his new job - and liking it more and more the deeper he dives into his responsibilities.  It sounds like he's really getting along with his co-workers too - they seem to have a lot in common, which I'm still trying to decide if that's a good thing!!  ;)  lol  We hope that things will work out nicely with Jayce being born around Christmas so that he can get some time off work, since his vacation days don't kick in until next year.  He's been talking with his boss, and as long as Jayce is cooperative (hahaha) then he should be able to trade the days he already gets off for Christmas for earlier and then work the week after Christmas a little more than originally expected (which would be ideal since they shut down that week for maintenance and Cam wants to be there anyways to learn more in the process).  So, not much else going on here.  Just hanging out until Thanksgiving!!  Guess it's really sneaking up on us - we  better go get our turkey!!