He's on his way!

Well, I am happy to report that we are going to be adding a little BOY to our family in August! Scott and I are very excited. I thought he was going to be a boy because I dreamed twice that he was a boy, and Scott was convinced he was going to be a girl. He even wore a pink shirt to the ultrasound. I thought it would be easier to have another girl since we have all the girl stuff, but Scott wanted to have a little boy. One could say that we were pretty split down the middle on it. We would have been excited either way, but we are definitely excited to experience what it is like to raise a little boy. Here are some ultrasound pictures:

 

The above picture shows his face in profile.

In this above picture you can see his head (circle on right) and belly with spine (Left circle) and an arm coming off of the top. He's a big boy- already weighing around a pound and 1 ounce!

This picture speaks for itself. 

We already have a name picked out for our little man. It is Jackson Douglas Willcutts.  We'll probably call him little "Jack" as a nickname. Please keep him in your prayers, and now you can even pray for him by name! We are hoping he will be here a week early around August 14th.

As for the rest of the family, we are all doing pretty well. Scott is just finishing busy season, and he leaves for his last trip this weekend. We are excited for his schedule to slow down a little bit. I've been struggling with some depression, but I am finally getting some help with it and hope to be on the mend as soon as possible.

My mom came down the end of last week and helped me completely clean and organize just about our entire house. She started by cleaning the carpets on our most dirty floors, and then turned into the energizer bunny and organized every closet and room from the basement up! My dad came down last weekend on Saturday and built us some amazing storage shelves for our garage, and he and Scott finished cleaning and organizing the garage. What a huge help! Thank you, Mom and Dad! WOW! 

With my mom's help, I was able to finish getting Ady's room completely toddler-fied, and now she is officially sleeping in there. Her first night in the toddler bed was Friday night. She has done so well adjusting to her new bed. Even for her naps she has been sleeping very well. The funny part is that Scott and I were so nervous to get her out of her crib and into the toddler bed because we assumed that she was going to stop sleeping through the night and stop taking naps. Boy were we wrong! She has done great! Here are some fun pictures of her in her "new" bedroom.

Ady in her crib for one of the last times.

Not a baby anymore. Here is our little princess in her princess bed! What a big girl!

The perfect toddler room and bed for our little girly girl.  It is now as safe as we can get it for a toddler! Yea!

My dad building shelves for the garage and my mom helping to clean and organize:

Scott's mom came down to help out on Sunday, and she got to come with us to see our ultrasound on Monday. It was fun to have her there with us. She had never seen an ultrasound before, so I think she enjoyed getting to come. She stayed until Wednesday evening, and it was wonderful to have her here to help clean and watch Ady so I could go to some appointments. Ady loves playing with Nana, and she had a blast getting to have her here for so long. 

 

Above: Nana and Ady watching TV with "baby" and Izzy

One evening while Tricia was here this week, she watched Ady so Scott and I could go out to dinner together. It has been a couple months since we've gotten to go on a "real" date, so it was a huge blessing to get out and have a nice dinner together. We always love getting to spend that time together catching up and being reminded why we love each other and why we are such a good team. What a much needed blessing! Thank you to all of the very wonderful support, encouragement, and help we got this last week from our families!

Above left: Scott and me about to go on our date. Above right: The baby Jackson bump at 21 weeks

As my readers can see and read, it has been a busy week. I'll keep you all posted on life as I can. 

Have a great weekend!

Love,

Karen Ruth

ps. I cant resist the desire to post these last two pictures of my "big girl" walking in my red high heels. Scott helped her get both of them on, and then she walked around the office for quite a while. She is quite the little ball of joy and fun for us.