Our world was changed forever one month ago. Roux Honor made his entrance into our lives on June 11th, 2021 at 7:23 in the morning, weighing a healthy 9 lbs 2 oz and a very tall 22 inches long. It’s my lot in life to be surrounded by tall, dark, handsome men – lucky me!

Scott’s first time holding Roux

What is the story behind his unique name? There’s got to be a story, right? The simple answer is that we LOVE it. We looked for months at names from across the pond – Welsh, Scottish, French, etc – anything new. As a teacher of 15 years, there is seldom a name we hear that hasn’t been the name of one of my students, and we wanted something for our son that we could not associate with someone else. Maybe that’s why we have so much hope for it? It’s his.

And personally, the look of the name had me long before the pronunciation (ROO). I just loved the look, the “x”, everything about it. I left it on our name list simply because I loved to see it even though I knew it would never make the cut. And for months the name lingered on the list as others we loved fell, but we never thought Roux would make it to the top ten, let alone end up being the one. But here he is, our Roux, and we are simply madly in love with it as we are with him. It just fits.

His middle name Honor comes from the fact that he is truly the greatest honor of our lives and we hope he lives up to the name, as we will strive to for him.

Scott and I imagined for months what it would be like to head to the hospital and meet our son and we are eager to share what transpired as so many of our friends have asked how everything happened.

But this won’t be your typical birth story, though I have always had an interest in everyone else’s. I can’t bring myself to give the more clinical aspects of his arrival (it’s taken me years to say the word “birth” without cringing, and my greatest fear was to lose my sense of modesty even in front of Scott during this whole process…) but there are elements of his birth *YAY! I said it! TWICE!!!* that I never want to forget. And because of what happened to us, I feel the need to share even more. If you’re not into this type of thing, skip the rest and please know that it would mean the world to us if you would donate blood. It’s a very personal and a very sincere request. Please, please please.

To Be Continued…