Life with Boose and Finch

Ro's birthday turned out great!  We invited all of the kids in his daycare class and dropped off a few invitations at his preschool.  We also invited a friend of ours who brought four out of five of her own kids to hang out, too.  The only family members who arrived were my sister, B's grandfather, and B's aunt, but that was okay because it gave us a lot of time to talk to the other parents.  I even managed to exchange phone numbers with another mom to maybe have some playdates! Unfortunately, we've been pretty busy every weekend since so I've been dropping that ball.  I am pretty excited about that prospect though because then there's a good chance that Ro will have lifelong friends from his diaper ages.  I enjoy time with all of my friends, but I've found that those are pretty special. After waking up, B left to go biking for the morning and we started the day off with a Starbucks breakfast.  Ro loves getting an everything bagel with cream cheese w...

Excellent Packinghouse Lighting I've always thought of September as a birthday month.  Mine and my grandfather's are at the beginning, my dad's is this weekend, and various friends are scattered throughout the whole rest of the month.  Ro was supposed to be born in October, but I was pretty happy when his birthday ended up being at the end of September instead.   I usually don't even like to tell people when my birthday is or how old I am.  I finally gave up this year and started telling anyone I met that that day was a good day because it was my birthday, my deeply cut finger was healing nicely, and I was excited to have two cans of Full Circle Brewing's Pie of the Tiger waiting at home.  One of my awesome coworkers ho works really hard to keep up with team events such as birthdays bought a delicious oreo cake for after lunch.  Usually around this time of year, we are trapped working in a 40-degree cold storage room all day and have to borrow pe...