A year later and a baby on the way

Last time I made an appearance on my blog, I thought that I would be consistent in posting; however, I haven't been back since.  In the past year, our family has made some significant changes!  In June, we found out that I was expecting our first child and in August learned that our baby was a sweet little boy.

Back up to June when I found out that I was expecting.  My dear husband loves the Delta and agricultural.  Not only that but he has always wanted to learn how to fly.  So, after doing much research and obtaining the appropriate funding, he was accepted to attend Flying Tigers Aviation in Rayville, LA.  This would mean that he would be gone anywhere from 3-5 months depending on how hard he worked towards finishing.  So, he took off to Louisiana in late September to begin his training and I have been enjoying the calm before the storm.

So back to mid-summer and the news of our little bundle.  We began meeting with Dr. Cesario in the beginning of July and was able to see our little joy on the ultrasound monitor.    In August, we had an appt. with Dr. Brewer at Maternal Fetal Heart Medicine and my cousin Jenny was the one scanning me.  I was at 13 weeks and were told that we may be able to find out the gender at that point but not 100%.  After scanning me for a few minutes, Jenny said, well, do you want to know?  I had been saying boy the whole time and Kolby thought girl so when she said that she knew, I knew that I had been right the whole time.  IT'S A BOY was announced and displayed on the screen.  There is NO doubt that our little bundle on the way is all boy nor is he one bit shy in showing his man parts!


We could hardly contain our excitement so I called my parents and told them that we had news to share. So in the following few days, we had fun gender reveal parties with my family and his.  We surprised my mom, dad at their house and called my brother and sister through Facetime.  Everyone but me and my sister were guessing Girl but after mom and dad took their first bite of their cupcakes, they quickly realized that he was a BOY!  The next evening, both of my grandmothers, Uncle Mark and Aunt Donna came over and we played the same game with them.  They all had predicted Girl as well and were fairly shocked at the sight of the blue.  My grandmother Stockton thought that the inside of her cupcake was green?!?!  The next day, we drove to Indianola to share the exciting news with Kolby's family.  I made a sign that said, Team Football or Team Cheerleader.  I would say that the guesses were close to 50/50.  I bought blue silly string and wrapped Boy or Girl paper around each of them.  Kolby has close to 30 family members and around 20 were there for the revealing.  We all went outside, I counted to 3 and everyone began squealing as they saw the blue silly string spray across the lawn.  So everyone in the family finally knew that William Harrison would be joining the family in February! So, what's in his name?  William is Kolby's maternal grandfather's name as well as his name.  Harrison is his fraternal grandfather's name.  We decided to call him Harrison because it seemed to be something we fully agreed on.

Our last sonogram was at 18 weeks and this is a picture of our little bundle.  

This was the very best picture that we could get of our little wiggle worm.  He is a very active little boy already.  Looking at his profile, he has my nose and his daddy's chin and lips. He loves to wave his hands at the camera so we were lucky to capture this sweet photo of him waving at the camera. 

We will go back to see Dr. Brewer on Nov. 13th and Dr. Cesario on the 18th.  As always, we look forward to sharing our progressions with everyone.  We are thoroughly blessed for God's timing and his blessing that he has been bestowed upon us.