Catching Up

Alright, this post will be mostly pictures just to catch up from the last month that I've vanished from blogging land! In my defense though, I was away, I had a baby, and now have been adjusting to life with 2 girlies. But other than that I've just been lazy.

Ok, where to start.... We helped bring in the fall season by heading to Cider Hill Farms in Amesbury for some pumpkin pictures, apple picking, goat feeding, and donut eating with Sadie's cousins Cali & Patrick and of course Auntie Heather i.e. "Heath."

A mere two days after our lovely day at Cider Hill, I woke up on that Wednesday morning feeling some contractions. Nothing too regular, and nothing very painful, just noticeable. I tried to keep track of them throughout the day without much luck, because, as I found, it is very difficult to time contractions while chasing an almost-2-year-old around the park. In any case, Sean and I settled into bed around 10pm, only I was soon to be awoken by my water breaking around 11:45pm. I quickly got up, realized my contractions were a) close together, and b) extremely painful, so I texted Melissa and updated her on my current condition, made sure my bag was packed, and woke Sean up by midnight. Sean called his mom to come over, jumped in the shower, and we were off to the hospital, checked in and settled into a room by 12:30am on Thursday Oct 8th. You couldn't have paid me one million dollars to guess that I'd have a baby in less than an hour, but sure enough, at 1:21am, Ruby Page Reardon arrived with a full head of black hair. The midwife who delivered her, Sarah, was on her first on-call shift at the hospital, and Ruby was her first delivery ever at Anna Jaques. All went smoothly, and Ruby weighed in at a whopping 7 lbs 5.8oz (whopping compared to her sister who was a mere 5lb 14oz), 19 inches long.
She cried for a good long time and tuckered herself out! Unfortunately my mom missed the delivery, by only minutes, as we had no idea everything was going to happen so quickly. I think my mom arrived about 4 minutes after Ruby was born, but thankfully she had her camera with her so she was able to capture some of our first moments together as a family.

Sadie came to visit for the first time later that afternoon, and absolutely LOVED her new baby. We foresee (and hope for) lots of sisterly love between these two girls in the future!

Sadie was beyond thrilled that baby Ruby had even picked out a new Grover, just for her, and has since become nearly attached at the hip to her new blue friend.

Our first family picture as a family of 4 (or 5 if you count Grover.....)

Here we are getting ready to go home. Needless to say it was a totally different experience staying in the hospital with one baby but knowing you have another baby at home who needs you too. We were verrrrry excited to leave our tiny little room and get home!

Once home, we all settled in quite nicely. Sadie was excited her baby was home (even more excited than her mama being home). She was great with the baby, and didn't seem to mind when Ruby cried or when I needed to feed her. And at this point, it feels like Ruby has been here forever. We can't even remember how calm life was with only one baby to care for and entertain!

Sadie's first time holding Ruby. We figured Ruby's crib was a pretty safe locale for this endeavor, and when Ruby got fussy and I picked her up, Sadie cried, "Sadie HAVE HER!!!" Precious.

I just can't get enough sleeping baby pictures. They are so peaceful and snuggly and cuddly on cozy warm; I forgot how much I absolutely love the newborn stage!

So that's it for now.... and this time I PROMISE to do my best to keep up with blogging..... For now, I'm off to catch some zzzz's while I can, and keep my cell phone close by for my friend Melissa's text that she is in labor....

Tea Party

This morning Sadie discovered a ceramic tea set that she had gotten for Christmas last year which I had hidden in her closet. Given its ceramic-ness, I didn't feel as though it was safe to be dropped throughout the house, hence the reason I had hidden it. She, however, was intent on. "tea!" all afternoon, so she enjoyed her first tea party alongside Elmo and Kitty.

She made certain that Kitty got sugar AND cream in his tea....

And shoved spoonfuls of sugar down Elmo's mouth.

Then posed with Mama and said, "Teeeeaaaaaa!"

6 weeks!

Well we "officially" have just 6 weeks left till Sadie's sister is due to make her appearance, and although I haven't been as good about documenting this pregnancy as I was about documenting my pregnancy with Sadie, I did take a photo today!

Just for comparison, here is me, 34 weeks prego with baby #2:

And just about 34 weeks prego with Sadie:

I'm hoping these next 6 weeks fly by, as we are all getting excited for the newest addition to the Reardon clan to arrive!

Dog Days

We've spent the final few weeks of August BAKING in the sun, and trying to spend as much time enjoying being outdoors as possible! Sadie experienced her first peach-picking endeavor at Smolak Farms in North Andover which was great because the peach trees hung low enough so that her pregnant mama didn't have to hoist her up to pick them!

We spent a rainy day testing out her ladybug rain boots (which do, in fact, succeed in keeping socks dry!) by splashing in puddles on the sidewalk. I think all of High St. probably enjoyed when Sadie, instead of stomping her feet in the puddles, sat down smack in the middle of a puddle, and laid her head back in the water. Awesome.

As one of my birthday gifts, my parents gave me a gift certificate to the local bike store, which we used promptly to buy Miss Sadie a purple helmet, as well as a bike seat for the back of our bikes. Although she hasn't had the opportunity to go biking with mom yet, she's loved riding with Dadda, lifting up the back of his shirt and yelling, "bum!" as they cruise down High St.

Sadie has started wanting to choose her own outfits.... hence this pink track suit with brown headband....

We spent a fun morning at cousin Maggie's 3rd birthday party- Under the Sea theme! Sadie enjoyed the cake I think more than anyone else there...

Post-pigtail 'do, about to watch an Elmo show. Again.

Nothing like laying on the couch watching your favorite muppet sing about a dinosaur.

Playing with cousin Cali (who actually let me do her hair in pigtails after watching Sadie get her hair done). And no, Sadie did not punch Cali in the eye.

The Canadians come to town

We enjoyed a great day visiting with our long-lost friends Melissa & Molly. We spent the morning and afternoon at the beach, pool, eating Famous, napping, and just playing. We were sad to say goodbye after such a short visit, and can't believe that the next time we see the Doyles then there will be two new little babies to add into the mix!

The girls at the beach

and with their mamas

Sadie rocked an awesome post-nap 'do

CHEEEEEEESE!

A little fuzzy (thanks a lot Sean), but a nice one :)

Slacker

I know, I know, I've been slacking off updating The Cutting Edge lately, so here are some recent photos of what we've been up to.

We thoroughly enjoyed the week of Yankee Homecoming here in Newburyport. We kicked it off by heading down to Old Fashioned Sunday where Sean accompanied Sadie on a pony ride.

Then Mama and Auntie Meg took Maggie and Sadie on a train ride around the mall, where Sadie proceeded to wave and say, "hi" to everyone we passed by. She then proceeded to throw what may have been one of her biggest temper tantrums yet when she couldn't go back on the train for a second ride since the line was too long and the price was a rip off. That was the end of Old Fashioned Sunday for us.

Just a cute pic, right after she got her hair did.

We spent a morning babysitting/playing with Sadie's friend Will. They spent much of the morning chasing after each other and hugging. It was pretty cute if I do say so myself.

We tried to hit the sidewalk sales one day during Yankee Homecoming, but it was too stinken' hot out, so prego Mama cut the trip short and we headed home to the pool.

Race night of Yankee Homecoming. We watched the 10-miler go right by our house. And don't worry, Sadie was drinking her milk, not Dadda's, "bee-ah."

Family day at Maudsley. We went with Kyle, Heather, and Cali. Sadie and Cali pretty much just dragged each other around the whole time.

My parents, "Mimi" and "Papa" got a new puppy last weekend. She is a very cute little pointer/retriever mix who has been named Stella. Although I was against the puppy transaction wholeheartedly, I am finding a spot in my heart for Stella, who has been a very cute little addition to the Trieff family. And Sadie seems to enjoy playing with her out in the back yard, too!

At a birthday party on Saturday night, Sadie just needed a shoulder to lean on. Thanks, Cali.

Yankee Homecoming Parade Day, party at our house. Molly, Matthew, Sadie, and Sophie had a front row seat.

Grampy with two of his girls, Sadie and Kelte.

The whole clan watching the parade.

The kiddos loved watching the bagpipers go by.

Sadie enjoying some dirt cake and gummy worms, pre-bath of course.

Tonight, Sadie insisted on fastening her bathing suit around her neck, over her pajamas. She then surprised us by climbing up into this little hutch cabinet, and closing herself in.