Welcome Elliot!

Elliot Alfred Iredale Fox arrived Tuesday, June 17 at 4:41pm.  He weighed in at 6lb 12oz (almost an entire pound bigger than Owen was!) and 20.5 in long.  Delivery went smoothly, we left the house at 1:40pm to head to the hospital and spent a "whopping" total of 3 hours in the hospital before he arrived - I got a spinal block after 2 hours of contractions coming every 2 minutes - with several double and triple peaked contractions in there for good measure (never actually got the full epidural because I delivered about an hour after the block was put in and the NP arrived with the epidural medication about 2 pushes from birth) and it was A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!  Such a different experience than Owen's birth - actually kind of enjoyable it was so calm.  The delivery room went from being this very intense place to being a comedy club in the span of 10 minutes!
Anyway, enough on that.  Here's what you actually want...pictures!

in labour!  This was pre painful labour...about 11am

every newborn needs one weird photo face!

there is lots of hair under that hat!

sleepy baby!

long toes!

see all that hair!?!?

looking a lot like his older brother at this age!

proud papa!

happy mama!

content baby!

 Owen stayed Tuesday night with our friends Brian and Tiffany (whom he LOVES!!) and had a great time with them.  We arrived home Wed evening about 7:30pm from the hospital, and Dave went and picked Owen up to bring him home to meet his brother.  Owen was VERY excited to meet Elliot and talked the whole way home about him apparently!  When he got in the door he ran in and gave me a hug and immediately asked where Elliot was.  Then they had a little sit on the couch together and Owen was a very proud big brother and kept wanting to rub noses with Elliot, just like the Woodsey family does in his books...it was very cute!  He also kept trying to share his toys (turns out 1 day olds don't really play with skid steers...) and asked if Elliot could sleep with him last night (sorry, no - babies can't sleep in the big bed...which Owen has been consistently sleeping in for the past 2 weeks now!).  This morning he wanted to "read" to Elliot.  I think he is going to do just fine as a big brother!

nose rub!

all my boys!