My bad.
Last weekend and this week were so crazy, I missed my ‘at least once a week’ update. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and have a seat. This will be a long one.

Rory’s first week of daycare went swimmingly. She seemed to enjoy it, and even though each day when I arrived to pick her up she started crying when she saw me, she definitely had a good time. And true to every prediction, she even picked up her first daycare cold and had a runny nose all weekend (don’t even ask how she slept last Friday night). I ran into a woman I knew from pre natal yoga class at the grocery store who had her baby 2 weeks after me. Her son has been in daycare since the last week in august when she went back to her teaching job and she said he had been sent home with a fever once a week every week since he started. YIKES!

Last weekend, we had guests in the form of Rory’s godparents: Vicki (from SF), David (via motorcycle from CT), and Carolyn (from SF/Martinez). A good time was had by all-lots of good food, laughter and general carrying on. The only downside was the fact that David was here for too short a time. We had a brunch on Sunday with the Livingston/Foster clan, Lis and Steve, Anne, and Glenn and Jane and planted a sugar maple tree in Rory’s honor (in lieu of the more traditional church-style godparent/baptism thing). Champagne (straight or with OJ), good breakfast foods and good friends are always a good combination on a Sunday morning! And even though we were threatened with a prediction of rain by every conceivable weather service, it held off until late afternoon.

Tuesday was Rory’s 9-month check. Everything looks fine-she’s hitting all the milestones as far as development and now can be pretty much eating anything she wants (with a few of the normal exceptions for babies under a year). Her stats are as follows: weight-15th percentile (16 lbs, 5 oz, height-25th percentile (27 ¼ inches), melon circumference- 75th percentile. Yes, clearly she’s a little top-heavy. We plan to start her in medical school as soon as she can speak clearly! HA!

I am happy to announce to all who have let me vent with them that my new position at work has finally come through! HOORAY! I start next Thursday. I’ll be working with both the MacArthur Initiative on Depression, and the New York Primary Care Prevention Project as a Research Data Coordinator. Basically, I’ll be doing some data entry into study databases, administrative work, and compiling of training materials, in addition to other tasks to be named later. I’ll be working with a great group of people and upping my ‘official’ classification to ¾ FTE (for those without knowledge of HR terms, that means 75% of fulltime) so I’ll be working 30 hours a week, mondays through thursdays.

Now we’re at the weekend again. Rory has her second day care cold. Sunday is supposed to rain all day so I’m hoping to get all the digital pictures we have on our computer sorted and named and post a few on yahoo! for your viewing pleasure, as well as get some weeding done in preparation for planting of bulbs and winterizing the garden.

Birthday wishes for this week: Jessy (the 18th), George and Hunter (the 18th and 19th respectively I think), Carolyn (today), and Bob (tomorrow). HUZZAH!

Have a wonderful weekend-I think I’ll go check out the local fall colors…