Cade has already been with us for a month now. Time if flying by. It's been a tough adjustment having two kids, especially when one of those kids is an energetic toddler! But we take it in stride and are doing the best we can. Cade is a pretty happy go lucky kind of fellow - except when he's hungry or needs to poop. Then he cries until the crisis is resolved.
We decided early on if Cade could survive the first month at home with his daily beatings from Brock, then he would be just fine. Brock's favorite thing to do is go up to Cade and say (very sweetly), "Hi Little Guy" then pulls his hair, or grabs his feet or hands and squeezes them tightly. Ugh!!
And of course Brock is our man of action. He has SO much personality and SO much energy we don't know how to keep up. We want to laugh and scream at the same time! His favorite things right now are music, cars, trucks, trains, airplanes and marching bands. He loves to watch sports on TV, especially football for the marching bands and golf. I'm sure both sets of grandparents are giddy knowing he likes to watch golf. He also loves to sing and chat about the most random things. It's all too sweet.
Welcome to the world, Cade Harper McCormick!
August 17, 2012 7:07 am
8 lbs., 1 oz.
20 inches
Much to my surprise, we had another BOY and we are delighted. Clearly I
wasn't channeling my inner Mommy, as I was 100% certain we were having a
girl. Who cares! We have a boy and he's healthy and gorgeous (not
biased at all...).
We had a c-section planned for August 17th at 9:00am. But like all Logan/McCormick family members, Cade was stubborn and didn't want to wait. I went into labor around 1:00am and by 3:00am was having contractions 3 minutes apart. We were at the hospital by 4:00am.
Similar to Brock's arrival, Cade decided to make his delivery equally, if not more challenging. Did I mention we are a household of stubborn people?
Because I went into labor, Cade started to move down the birth canal. Brock also did this and they both got stuck. As our OB stated during delivery (in a panic, I might add), my pelvis to too narrow and his shoulders were too broad. She had to call in "any available doctor" to help with the delivery. A herd of people shuffled into the operating room and a lot of hands were in my body holding various organs and pulling and tugging. Cade's umbilical cord was also wrapped around his neck twice. So, if we didn't already have a planned c-section, we would have had one anyway. The reason we had planned a c-section was because my uterus and bladder attached to the scar tissue from my first c-section with Brock. However, it turned out that the scar tissue was much thicker than anticipated (they said it was as hard as cement) so the cauterizing took over two hours. I've never been a fan of smelling burnt flesh, especially my own; icky! In the end, a healthy baby was born, a lot of blood was lost (I'm on iron pills) and I was told I can't have any more children. But we were done having kids anyway so this news is not heartbreaking. We feel extremely blessed with our two boys and couldn't ask for anything more.
One freaky thing that happened to me was my vision became distorted a few days before I had Cade. It's a condition called Central Serous Chorioretinopathy. In layman's terms, I have fluid in my right retina but the doctor anticipates it going away on its own. If it doesn't remedy itself by six weeks, there is a procedure I can do but it's not ideal. In the meantime, everything looks distorted so if you see me walking by and I don't recognize you initially, be kind. You're fuzzy looking. :-)
Brock has been adjusting to his new brother. At first, he was skeptical but every day he warms up a little more. He likes to "show off" his baby brother to people. It's very endearing. Who knows how long it will last but we live moment to moment in our household of boys. Life is good.
