It's a Boy!!!!

So incase you haven’t heard the news, we found out this past Wednesday that we will be having a boy! Ash and I are both so excited. I know it is a really corny response, but when people asked us what we wanted, we both were honest and said that we didn’t care, just as long as we got a healthy baby. I have to admit that it feels so good to know that we can actually start calling him by his name, and not just “it” or “the baby”. I had some other names to call it like “peanut” or “alien”, but it feels so good to be able to say “him” or “he”. And yes we do already have a name picked out…….Parker James Waddell.

We really loved the name Parker and both decided that we wanted to keep the name James in the family. Plus James fit really well with Parker.

So after we found out, the first thing we went to do obviously was shop a little bit….we bought a couple of outfits at Target and some other essentials. But last night we went and registered at Babys R Us. That was fun! We had a blast going around the store and just basically scanning everything.

It was so fun just to be able to enjoy that time with my wife. You guys have no idea how much my wife means to me. I can’t wait for the day when little Parker gets here and she gets the opportunity to be the mother that she is meant to be. As long as I have known her, Ashleigh has loved children. She loves playing with them, taking pictures of them, and basically just loving them. I honestly believe that Ash will make one of the, if not the best, mothers this world has ever seen.

I have to admit that I’m not as scared as I thought I would be now. I thought that if we found out it was a boy, I was going to be extremely nervous about how to raise a good, young Christian man. Surprisingly, I’m just plain excited. I can’t wait for the opportunity, when I get to sit down with Parker, and teach him how to be a man, although I’m still working on that myself. I can’t wait to help him learn how to play different sports, or teach him guitar. I can’t wait to have another VIDEO GAME PARTENER!

But seriously, I can’t wait how to teach him a lot of things. How to respect women, to treat them the way they need to be treated. I see a lot of teenagers these days, and these guys have NO idea how to treat a woman. I was thinking the other day, that with a boy, I just have to worry about how ONE boy is acting, in comparison to if we were having a girl I would have to worry about a lot of boys!

I can’t wait to teach how to love Christ, and how we as men are suppose to be the spiritual leaders. I want to show him what it means to reflect Christ’s heart and life.

Basically, I just can’t wait, I can’t wait to hold him in my arms. I just can’t wait!!!!!

Be an example.