FOX, party of 4!!!: August 2016

May has been one of the best month of our lives for obvious reasons. We started the month right with a bunch more baseball games from both the boy and Adam. That's definitely been a lot of fun for our family. Then we actually bought a new car. We decided that an Elantra hatchback was not big enough for our growing family.
On Friday meet May 13, we went to the hospital at 7 AM. as planned. After getting ready for my surgery they finally rolled me in the OR. At that point I was a little drugged up, tired, nervous, excited and anxious to meet our little guy. I was sitting on the table getting my spinal block done and Adam was holding my hands in front of me. I could not help but start crying I was so scared. All those years and that moment was finally here. I was scared of the surgery and I was scared of being a new mommy again. So I could barely manage holding it together until they laid me down and ready to go. I remember laying there and crying like a baby. I did not want the pain and I was so nervous. But Adam did as amazing as ever. He talked to me about our baby coming, about our family growing, about how excited he was and how long we had been waiting for this. He was so calm that I finally started calming down a little too. And then I heard it. I heard HIS cry. And all of the sudden everything disappeared. The tears, the fear, the anxiety were all gone. I remember seeing him peaked above the surgery curtain. I sat up to try to see better and I remember the doctor telling me to lay back down and to not try to sit up. I had even forgotten that was cut open! Nothing mattered anymore. I had seen my bright red baby boy crying and that was all that was important in that moment. They took him away to clean him everything. I remember wondering why he wouldn't cry for a while. Again I was just worried for nothing. Adam reassured me and told me that the baby was, in fact, crying and that I didn't have to worry. After a minute he brought the baby to me and put his face by mine. I cannot describe how it felt. To finally be able to feel my baby on my skin. It was indescribable. After so much heart ache, money, time and energy we finally got to meet our little baby boy. Calvin Bruce Fox was born at 9:17 on Friday, May 13th of 2016. He weighed 6 pounds 9.6 ounces and was 19 inches long. He is perfect. The dr told us that his cord was wrapped around his neck FIVE times! She said that he tied the record of what she had seen in her career and that if we would have chosen to do a vback I still would have ended up having a csection early into delivery.

I don't really remember being rolled back into our room. All I remember is that Adam was able to roll Calvin back with us. We had an hour to enjoy our new baby by ourselves. And then we couldn't wait any longer and had to have Josan come meet his little brother. Dad brought him at the hospital and that was just the most heart melting moment ever. To see our big boy meet his brand-new sibling for the first time was amazing. He was so full of love and so proud to be a big brother. We had always kept him in the loop about having another baby in our family. He was almost as impatient as we were about it. After Joes had plenty of time to have the baby to himself we started letting everybody know about our new family member. And then the visitors started coming.

The recovery from the surgery has been really easy. I had heard from different people that the second csection would be easier to recover from than the first one. And I already had been so blessed to have a really easy time when Josan was born that I wasn't too nervous about that part this time around.

The rest of the month has really just been one big adaptation time for us. We are not just the three of us anymore. And we are loving it.
Anyways, here is a few - ! - pictures of our month of May!

I was 8 months pregnant but I still loved volunteering for Josan's class Butterfly Art

Josan's Chef d'oeuvre!

It took Adam a while to convince me but we both agreed that our little Hyundai Elantra wasn't gonna big enough for 2 kids and their car seats, strollers, snacks and a million other things. So here's our new ride! We love our Nissan Pathfinder!

Listening to some Alexander Hamilton rap (yes RAP) with Tammy

Ok now major picture overload. Calvin's birth!

This is it guys! About to get checked in at the hospital!!

First -and definitely not last- picture of our baby boy!!!!!!!!

I'll always remember the emotions from when this picture was taken. They got Calvin out and Adam left for a moment to go be with our baby while he was getting cleaned up and everything. It seemed to me like an eternity. I was crying tears of joy and smiling at the ceiling by myself on my side of the curtain. And then Adam FINALLY brought him to me for just a few seconds and had his face by mine. All I wanted was to feel my baby. I wanted him as close as possible. And that little bit of touch was amazing.

Although we were happy beyond words, We had a piece of our family. As soon as we had had enough time to meet Calvin ourselves we had Dad bring in Josan. That was one of the best moment ever. The look on our big boy's face was so full of expressions; excitement, love, pride, he was smitten already.

Then after Calvin was introduced to his Mom, Dad, big bro and Grandpa, we had a ton of visitors coming to meet the new little one.

It was quite the exhausting day for Daddy

Calvin even had a special visitor coming all the way from Canada. I was so surprised to get a call from my mom about three weeks before we had Calvin telling me that she had changed her mind and wanted to come meet the baby here. We had an amazing week together. She cooked for us, cleaned for us, watched Josan for us and took the best care of the four of us possible. Josan had one of his best time with Mamie. All of us LOVED having her with us!

They had a congratulatory dinner for us! :)

Our first picture as a family of 4!!!

Finally time to go home!!! I felt ready to go the day after the delivery. But my blood pressure was too high. So they ended up keeping me in for 4 days...