November 2018

lifewithpete
Nov 30, 2018
2 min read

So many pictures! I think we used to take more because my parents didn't leave here, and we sent them a bunch every day. Or because the kids were younger? In any case, we do not take as many pictures now. It's hard to remember exactly what we did those days. The big things, yes. The routine of them is blurry. I think I lived and died by Hank's sleep schedule, but I don't remember what it was, exactly. Childcare was spotty--I had someone coming over in the mornings, but college girls are (in my experience) very unreliable, so we'd have someone we'd like and then they'd quit or not show up, etc. If I had to do it over again, I would have probably put him in daycare earlier, but who knows. All I do know is that it was hard to think--I worked in the nap-chunks. But it was nice to spend all that time with him. Sometimes I would write while he napped on the bed, next to me. Pete was at ELC. If he was up, which he usually was, Hankie would come with us to pick Pete up.

I took a picture of this around this time because I was going through things to frame for Pete's room. Still haven't framed them! This is from my friends I met in Vienna, when I was 18 years old!!!!! We still Zoom.

I think we were out to dinner with Sunny and Arthur and Paul, at the pizza place that had an arcade inside

At JJ's house

This is technically October...at ELC's costume day

At Sushiaya!

With Beau. He's the neighborhood cat Pete was obsessed with for a while.

At Avery's sister's horse show

This is what Pete did for pictures for a while...made that face.

Beto lost, but we wore our shirts...

Pete used to love to affix things to himself, like this keychain. He doesn't do that so much anymore.

Hank and a giant bottle of wine

At Chez Fonfon, in Birmingham

The wine from the year my mother's grandaddy was born. His name was Henry, too.

At Walter's, the gas station restaurant

Our first bout with Hank's allergies! He ate scrambled eggs for the first time, and his face got red. I was worried, Mat kept reassuring me--it's just sensitive skin! Then little raised welts started appearing, and we raced to the doctor's, which is open on Sunday's.