Day 1 April 27, 2011

We were awake on and off throughout the night, at 5am we just couldn't hold in our news any longer, so we sent a mass text to tell our friends about Cadan's birth (And woke many of them up!).

The pediatrician from the hospital came in and said Cadan looked great and could go home that evening once he was a full 24 hours old. It was funny because when she walked into the room this is what she saw...

Haha, she did a double take and said, "Well I don't see this everyday!" But she said it was great to see a dad doing skin to skin, and talked about how important it was that we do skin to skin especially with an adopted baby.

It was love at first sight for us!

The day was filled with feedings and diaper changes, all of that newborn stuff. :) We spent most of the day in the birthmother's room so she could spend time with Cadan. Cadan's biological 16 month old half brother came to meet him too. It was cute. :) We made sure we found things to do so the birthmother had some time alone with Cadan. We felt like this was really her time and she was inviting us into it. We will have so many years to gaze at him and love on him, but this will be her only chance for a while anyway.

All of this being born stuff is tiring!

 The time came to leave. What an emotional day! We were so excited to take Cadan home, but our hearts were just breaking for the birthmother. No matter how sure she was that this was the right decision and no matter how confident she was that we were the right parents for Cadan, it doesn't change the fact that she is, in a way, losing a child and must grieve that. As you can imagine we were all crying during the goodbye.

Except Cadan, he was asleep.

 On our way home we stopped at GGma and GGpa Lamb's house. It was time to feed and change Cadan. We were so blessed to have the opportunity to introduce our little man to his great grandparents!

That drive home felt soooo long! We arrived home around 11:30pm and were just exhausted. Thankfully Cadan slept well, only waking up to eat. By the next day we were feeling much better.