October 2011

Oh boy!  October is almost over, it's been busy and I've already forgotten half of it!  (Did I mention that blogging is a great tool to help you remember what the heck you did last week/month/year?!)

The first weekend in October was wonderful!!!  Nathan and I went to Atlanta to see the best girlfriends a gal could ask for.  One of my friends (Shelley) is pregnant and provided us with a wonderful excuse to get together, a baby shower!  (Thanks for taking one for the team, Shelley ;-) )

The first night I stayed with friends, Christine and Mike and their daughter, Sarah.  They had a tent filled with balls that Nathan just loved.

Later Nathan learned that when you play with a 4 year old girl, you might get dressed up as a fairy!  He's so sweet and easy going, he was just happy to play!

On Saturday, I went to Shelley's shower with Sarah while Sarah's mom babysat (yah! for grown up time).  Saturday night Sarah and I stayed at her parent's house for an adult slumber party.  You know, the kind where you have to go to bed early so that you can get up at 7am and make it through another day with an energetic toddler.

On Sunday morning, our day was pretty open for anything and I had an afternoon flight out so our friends at the shower came over to Sarah's parents house.

We tried to take a picture with our children...

But it sure is easier without the little ones!

Nathan did fairly well on the plane to Atlanta, wish I could say the same for the way back.  Ugh, at least the flight is only 1.5 hours.  Good thing he's cute.  ;-)

I have NO IDEA what I did in the following two weeks.  I was basically swallowed whole by the transition to electronic medical records at work when I got back from Atlanta.  I worked long and hard and came back home every day mentally exhausted.  It's going to take a couple more months to get used to things and to get my productivity levels back up but I finally feel like I can breathe a little at work.  Someday we'll look back at this post and laugh and say "remember when we used to write everything down in paper charts?!"

Last weekend we went to the pumpkin festival in Hyde Park.  The weather was beautiful and Nathan enjoyed all the people watching.