Bower Generation

Bower Generation

Saturday, October 29, 2011

More pics of Blaine as promised!

So here are some of the pictures that I wanted to post on my previous post but realized they weren't on my computer! So here are some special moments from the hospital.
Bonnie and I before delivery
As soon as Blaine was born! This was such a beautiful moment!
Proud Grandparents. You should have seen my poor Dad the whole time. The nurses came in one time during delivery and said that there was some cowboy pacing out in the halls. Daddy is always so worried about his baby girls.
Michelle and my mom. Bubba was giving his new cousin loves! Precious!
Uncle Bryan!
Aunties already fighting over who gets to hold him!
I love being an aunt. I miss this little boy everyday! ps. if you haven't noticed by now he has a full head of dark hair. It is adorable!!

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Baby Blaine...

There is something miraculous about a baby being born. It's a reminder of how fragile life can be and how delicate a child is in this world. Babies are truly gifts from God. On October 2nd I was able to witness the birth of my nephew Blaine Adam Eakle! Jacob and I were on our way home from our 9 day trip to Idaho and we had stayed overnight in Nevada to make the drive a little shorter. As we got up that morning we realized that we must have left our phone in the car overnight. As soon as Jacob found it he looked at me and said, "you have like 15 missed calls from all your family members". All the sudden tears filled my eyes with the immediate assumption that Bonnie must have went into labor during the night and that she had probably had delivered her baby. I fumbled with the phone desperately to dial my mom's number. As soon as she answered, I said sobbing like a baby.."Mom has Bonnie had her baby....oh mom bonnie had her baby and I was suppose to be there for her." Then my mom cuts in by saying. "Rach, Bonnie probably isn't going to have her baby till this afternoon, you didn't miss it". I wish you could have heard the conversation because I was seriously out of control. Anyways, I looked at Jacob and he knew exactly what we had to do. We got our stuff together and hopped in the car. Can I just say that my husband is a champ. He knowingly drove the 7 hours to Bakersfield knowing he was going to have to turn around and drive 4 more hours back home to San Jose to make it for school on Monday! I love that Man!! As soon as we were on the road to Bakersfield I said a little prayer that God would give me patience to not freak out on anyone or anything because I knew my emotions were high and if I missed being there for the birth of my sisters first baby I was probably going to kill somebody. When we arrived at the hospital I ran into the waiting room with Bubba. The funny thing is everyone looked and me and said, "finally, now Bonnie can have that baby!" Im pretty for sure that deep down Bonnie was holding off until I got there! Because about an hour later the doctors started preparing her for delivery. When I got into the delivery room my mom says to me..." were you beating Jacob, we were all assuming that poor Jacob was getting some sort of abuse the whole way here." Most people that know me know that I am just a little hot headed sometimes, especially when I get panicky or under stress. Lets just say, its something I am working on and no I didn't beat on Jacob! Remember...I prayed! Once Bonnie was fully dialated and the nurses were getting everything ready we all seemed a little frantic and excited. She asked me if I would hold her other leg along side Adam. I must admit that it was much more of a grueling task then I thought, because let me tell you, I wasnt even the one having the baby but I was so exhausted and tired by the end of it all. Bonnie pushed for about an hour and forty five minutes. She had some difficulties during her labor to say the least (Im sure details are not neccessary). But finally that baby boy arrived. Bonnie was amazing! She was so strong throughout the whole delivery! Undoubtedly the best part of the whole thing was when Blaine was pulled out and laid on Bonnie's chest! Every eye in the room was filled with tears. Its like all of the sudden we all felt this rush of emotion. There is no mistake in saying that it is truly a spiritual moment to see a baby come into the world. Its like you can't deny that he came straight from heaven. He was perfect in every way! The experience was magnificently beautiful. Truly undescribable! What a blessing for me to be apart of such a wonderful moment in Bonnie and Adam's lives. Thank you both for letting me be there and thank you God for getting me there in the nick of time!! Without having to kill anybody. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you all the funny part. You cant have any memory in our family without having a funny part right? So we all knew ahead of time that there was no video recording or pictures during the delivery, but after the baby was born we could take as many pictures as we wanted. Well in the midst of all the excitement, right as Blaine was being pulled out we all hear a "click click" and a flashing light coming from my moms corner in the room. Then the nurses yells "no pictures no pictures" I look over to see my mom snapping pictures of Blaine coming out of Bonnies "whoohaa". She got so excited and in the heat of the moment she just started taking pictures. Once she heard the nurse she realized what she had done. We laughed so hard later when mom tried to explain that she didn't even realize what she was doing. When we looked at the pictures when Bonnie came home from the hospital they were by no surprise very graphic. But honestly, it was hilarious. The Cox family never has a dull moment! Now Finally here are what we have you have all been waiting for. Pictures of Little Bubba Blaine... yes people he is a Bubba too... we can't help it. We are country people!
ps. more pictures to come. I realized that I don't have all the pictures from the hospital. So stay tuned.