The Wilcox Life: Chronicles of Baby #2

It's funny, one of the most common questions/comments when people find out that you're having a second is "Wow, did you guys plan that or was it a surprise?" I still can't wrap my head around the conundrum regarding the comments said to pregnant women in general, it's true that most people think no question is off limits. I thought for sure I'd be prepared to respond to those crazy comments and questions for baby number 2 but boy was I wrong... You typically show earlier with your second child- I kid you not someone told me at 16 weeks that I looked like I was going to pop... the look on their face when I told them I wasn't do until April was... priceless to say the least. Anyways more on that later...

Growing up I didn't have a large family and my family was never as close as I had hoped. My entire life I've dreamt of having a close knit, big family. Putting that into play is a whole different story however. During my pregnancy with Addelyn I would tell Jimmy on a regular basis... "never again". I struggled on a day to day basis, to get through each symptom often feeling claustrophobic in my own body- although I was grateful for the miracle growing inside of me and the opportunity to carry and bring life into this world, I struggled. I didn't think I could bring myself to signing up for the challenge again. Many people would repeatedly tell me you'll forget... and I would rant and rave how I would never forget. Well it took four months. HA... Four months went by andddd low and behold... I forgot. Christmas Eve we had finally gotten the rest of our maternity pictures... and thats all it took... a glance at that big belly, sent me on a roller coaster of emotions. Yes pregnancy is hard and long but its amazing and beautiful. Theres nothing like it. Jimmy thought I was crazy and then two months later he came down with baby fever too. We both knew we weren't ready in a place to start trying but we were both on the same page that our family was not done growing. We decided a few months later that we wanted our children to be around two years a part but due to my pregnancy with Addelyn I was not on board for another summer pregnancy. So we started trying and three months later we got a positive test! Our cut off for trying was August, if we hadn't gotten pregnant we would continue trying again in the following spring to prevent a summer pregnancy but sure enough two pink lines just in the nick of time.

Jimmy has always told me to surprise him with the news when finding out we are pregnant.. which is hard to say the least. I was barely able to pull it off with Addelyn... I can't hide anything from him, he always knows when something is going on... so I learned to take pregnancy tests toward the end of the day so I wouldn't have to keep it from him all day and risk him knowing somethings up, so when I found out I put a blanket with a onesie and the little blue and pink hospital hat, tied a bow around it with the pregnancy test and ignored all of Jimmy's calls for the remainder of the day...

When Jimmy gets excited about something he wants to tell the whole world so that night we swung by his parents house and left that on the entry table for his mom and surprised the rest of the family.

We chose to wait until Addelyn's birthday to reveal to extended family and close friends that we had a baby in the oven... after Addelyn's smash cake we gave her a bath and then dressed her in a shirt that said "Only Child Expiring Soon" and let her run around in that for people to see..

It wasn't too long after that, that we we're sitting in the doctors office when we were having our 12 week ultrasound when Jimmy looked at our OB and said.... UH is that a penis?! We were 12 weeks at this point and it was super early... our Dr. told ubs he was 80% sure that it was but that he would like to wait till our next ultrasound to confirm... A long four weeks later he was able to confirm that we are indeed having a boy!

We hosted a small reveal party with our MC Group and family to announce that we were having a boy! Here's a preview... a friend of ours took most of the pictures which I'm still waiting to get back :)

and later that week we announced to the rest of the world that we have a little boy on the way!

We just recently decided that we would name him Cason Ryker Wilcox and announced with these precious classic blocks. We struggled for a few weeks going back and forth between Wyatt, Cason, Ryker and I tried for a while to get Maddox to grow on Jimmy but it never did so back and forth we went with the endless combinations of those three names and finally decided on Cason Ryker Wilcox.

This pregnancy thankfully has not been as hard as my first, THANK YOU GOD! My hardest struggle was during the first trimester with energy and nausea. Being tired is no joke your second pregnancy, holy cow! This second trimester has been pretty good to me thus far. The only symptoms I've endured throughout this pregnancy have been fatigue, food aversions and nausea... can't complain there!

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