Adelie June, after the full moon

She's here! A second daughter we'll likely be just as bad about keeping-up-with-the-blogging-about... But we'll try. Here's a good start: the video of the first meeting of Kaia "Big Sister" Madsen with her new little cohort, Adelie June. Kaia's been sweet, if a little too eager and excitable, but that's to be expected when Mom's big belly suddenly morphs into a real live (screaming and terribly unfun) baby that she can't play with, feed apples to, or smother with blankets.

It was a beautiful day to be born: autumn foliage in full effect, the Hudson River view out of our hospital room offering up brilliant sunset and fireworks. The night prior we enjoyed the town Halloween parade, pumpkin ale, and a full moon. Kaia as Mummy, me as Mommy. Now all our ducks are in a row - a house of four with July, Aug, Sept and Oct birthdays. We are all home feeling great, if sleepy and overwhelmed, and very blessed. More videos of baby to come, when she starts performing and stops sleeping.

And for old times sake, back when we were young and "three", a video of Kaia and Daddy dancing on our new kitchen floor. My apologies for not being able to stop the video camera when the dancing is done (or edit it out later)...