pumpkins boo - yah!

We went to the pumpkin patch today. momma and baby like to make the same faces.

I realized that i never posted pictures of the finished nursery. mainly b/c it took us so long to put the crib together that i just never got around to making it look 100% presentable where i wanted to post. but here we are:


I've started my new job. I like it so far - I have no idea what they study (Stat5? Mast cells? Immuno-wha???) but they seem to have lots of confidence in me which is nice, at least my boss does and he likes to call me Dr. D. which is always nice to hear. I'm slowly learning m y way around the lab - once I get that down, I'll feel much better about it. So far I'm way busy and I'm trying to finish up my revisions for my dissertation, so I have tons to do. plus i try to do nothing but have baby time when i get home so I stay super busy at work. I'm also trying to adjust to the pumping thing. At first I was pumping twice a day. now I think i've got it down to once midday and i'm good until I get home. Its just a matter of not being too full that I start hurting and leaking and having a free 20 minutes to go do it. It is kind of a nice break though. Plus anytime I dont feel like being in the lab i just go pump. its a nice excuse to get away. Dad and baby seem to have adjusted well. Its nice that he now understands that even though you're home all day, you don't necessarily get anything done. But he has become Mr. Mom in the span of a week. he's already learned how to cook (east african braised chicken and pork chops with balsamic reduction!). I do miss cooking though, so i try to get some in on the weekends (i made harvest soup, pesto pasta salad, and cookies today). well, i cheated with the cookies - the dough was premade.

the other nice thing about jack being home - he can go get me cupcakes from the cupcake store before they run out. AND there is another one out by trader joes that actually makes the same flavors we had for our wedding - lemon raspberry, pumpkin spice, and chocolate raspberry. I'm thinking I'll order some to celebrate our anniversary with. we're trying to decide whether to go back to the vineyard for our anniversary or go visit chincoteague for the day. I'm kind of leaning towards the vineyard, plus my aunt offered to babysit and we can probably score free dinner out of her too! and they're fun to hang out with. I can't believe we've not even been married for a year and we already have this incredible baby. crazy year.

I can't get over the weather richmond has been having - freaking gorgeous! thats another plus (sort of) with pumping is i get to go outside to go to the lactation room. i can't wait for the leaves to start to change. plus this weather brings my favorite things: apple picking, cider,apple cider doughnuts, gludvine, pumpkin pie, halloween costumes.....
our weekends are hella busy for the rest of the month: chrissy's wedding, apple picking in c'ville, halloween, zombie walk, anniversary. not in that order. but so fun! and more merit firsts. love it!