Brenden Pics

What's a boy have to do to get some scrambled eggs around here?

Brenden loves riding around in his doll stroller - we're not sure what we're going to do when the wheels finally fall off

Busted during a love-fest with Momo

Brenden's favorite play room

Story Time

Nap Time on the couch

Brenden Potter

Corn on the cob - he can eat a whole ear in 2 minutes flat

Company BBQ

I beat that kid in the end!

My new company had a company BBQ last Friday night, and we had a fun (and freezing cold!) time. Brenden enjoyed the bouncy house and I made it up the climbing wall. That's something I've always wanted to try. It was harder than I thought - by the time I made it back down my arms were shaking from exertion and nerves (I haven't been with the company long enough to make a fool of myself).

So far things are going really well at my new job. I hear snippits of complaints and politics from other people, which makes me nervous at times, but my experience has been overwhelmingly positive so far. My manager is a very nice man and the team I'm working with is great. I'm taking note of the things I hear for future reference, but I have to remind myself that everyone's experience is different for a multitude of reasons. I heard an earful of bad things when I started at my firm in Seattle, but my experience was better than I even hoped for.

Now that we're settled in some sort of normal and Brenden is sleeping through the night, I'm finding time for myself for the first time in a long time! I didn't realize how drained I was until I started to recover once B was sleep trained. Pregnancy and raising an infant and supporting our family wore me out to my core.

I've just started walking over lunch, and it feels great. I work 2 blocks from the riverfront - it's not Puget Sound but it's still pretty and quaint. Downtown Evansville is surprisingly cute. There are several local restaurants I plan to try, and there's even a little local pharmacy with a cafeteria that reminds me of old pharmacies I used to see as a kid. (back in the day!)

Of course the instant I start gaining my strength back, people start talking about the second child! When i picked B up from daycare yesterday the teacher told me he had been playing with a baby doll and people say that means he wants a little brother or sister. Ha! If we have another child it will be years out. And that's a big "if." I don't think we'll be horrible parents if B is an only child. I admire parents who can handle a bunch of kids, but it's not for me. I need this time I'm finally getting to myself so I can be a good parent to the one I already have!

Superman

Halloween was a blast! It was a perfect sunny fall day. I enjoyed getting lots of yard work done. I discovered cleaning gutters is a lot more fun when you ditch the ladder and just crawl around on the roof.



Brenden had fun trick or treating. He didn't understand why we kept knocking on people's doors but not going in, but he seemed to think it was pretty cool seeing all the kids in costume. When we got home we had several trick or treaters ourselves, which was really fun. We've always lived in an apartment so that was our first experience getting to give out candy. Isn't it crazy that you can go knock on a random stranger's door and they'll give you candy??



Brenden was bouncing off the walls right up to bedtime. After he finally feel asleep we watched a new zombie show called the Walking Dead, which was fun for Halloween.



Overall it was the best Halloween I've had since I was a kid.