17 years ago on June 4th at 8:36 a.m, Kevin John Donnellon was born. And of course there's a story to go behind the actual day of the birthday. With my oldest son Michael I had to have a C-section, so when we became pregnant with Kevin they told us that we had the option to deliver him by c-section as well. We thought we would just go for it and do the natural delivery thing. Kevin actual due date was June 7. At the time John was working for the Escondido Police Department and his one big dream was to become a motor officer...driving the big police bike. One day John came home and said that he had good news and bad news. The good news?? He was accepted into the motor academy. The bad news?? The start date for the academy, which was up in Los Angeles was June 7. We had a appointment with my OB/GYN on June 2nd and explained our dilemma. He suggested we go the C-section route, so we scheduled it! June 4th it was for Kevin's birthday AND that gave John a couple of days to be home with Kev before he left. The reason we picked June 4th? Well my Uncle Jimmy's birthday was June 3rd and he is kind of a drama queen (I can say that) and we didn't want Kev to share his birthday with him and June 4th made total sense, since Michael, his older brother was born on the 4th. (in March).
My fondest memory is after I delivered Kevin and they wheeled me into recovery, not 15 minutes later, John came in and had the list of friends and family that we were going to call after Kevin was born. We must have had like 20 names on it. I asked him if he started calling them...his response?? He had already called ALL of them!
We're proud of Kevin and his accomplishments and we are looking forward to his Senior year in high school. It's gonna be an exciting year!
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