Big one year old

Nixon is 1!! Some of the things I remember about the events leading up to and the day he was born.....

• Crying on the way to drop Logan off. Not only was it my first time away from him for a night, but I knew his was no longer going to be the baby of our family. I get tears thinking about it.
• Staring at the ocean on the long drive down pch having contractions every 5-7 minutes apart.
• Kyle stopping at a convience store across the street from the hospital to get a diet pepsi (he obviously has no clue what contractions feel like).
• Watching teenager and college kids running around Newport beach and thinking about how funny the difference in what we were both doing was.
• From the moment I walked into the hospital (around 8pm)everyone told me how fast this baby was going to come, which I was exited about because from the moment I walked into the hospital I got very hungry.
• Having a very new, young nurse.....and not really loving the thought of that.
• Another nurse coming in to do all procedures like inserting tubes/monitors.
• Eating lots of popsicles
• Starring at the fetal monitors all night long
• Watching the decels in the heartrate and telling Kyle each time that we needed to pray.
• Having the anesthesiologist I used to watch insert epidurals when I was in nursing school.
• That anesthesiologist telling me the same thing over and over again (risk/benefits of epidural...ya ya just put it in)
• Deciding Nixon was the name
• Not sleeping one wink
• Being told I was going to need to have a section
• Crying because I was having a section and this baby wasn't coming fast like I had been told all night
• Dr. Ricci coming in early looking very tired
• Dr. Ricci being mad the nurses hadn't called her earlier
• The OR anesthesiologist telling me how happy I looked (while I was still sobbing, he wasn't very observant) while he pushed me on the gurney to the OR (around 7am)
• The OR nurse telling me my makeup looked very nice.
• Freezing in the OR
• Struggling to keep my eyes open, I was so tired.
• Kyle coming into the OR, asking me if I was ok, holding my hand.
• The doctors talking about their skiing trips while they were doing my surgery.
• Me wondering how much of my surgery was paying for their trips
• Telling the anesthesiologist that I couldn't breathe, and him telling me it was ok
• Nixon coming out and my immediate thought was that he looked just like Logan did.
• Everyone telling me how cute his dimples were.
• The pediatric specialist telling me Nixon was fine.
• The nurse bringing him over to me to kiss.
• Me telling Kyle to make sure he didn't let Nixon out of his sight.
• Holding Nixon for the first time in the recovery room.
• Thinking while I was staring at my new baby, Kyle didn't follow the right baby out of the OR.
• My family coming to the hospital with Logan
• Logan not wanting to come near me
• My brother bringing Mexican food to the hospital.
• Me not being about to eat it because I was told that I couldn't eat or drink anything for awhile.
• Me telling Kyle to give me a drink and him refusing
• Me telling Kyle I am a nurse practitioner and I said it was ok.
• Every part of my skin itching thanks to the morphine
• Seeing Nixon's little calfs and realizing he was my child.

I guess I could go on and on. I feel so lucky to have sweet Nixon.

I have survived my first year being a mother of 2

Nixon has survived his first year being a younger brother to Logan

Watch out Logan, Nix is getting bigger!!