Day 173...work bbq

Jul 12

So I made sure to get my self and Martyn to the baby sitter on time this morning. The nice thing is, her house is only about 10 minutes from work, so if I get there early enough I can nurse Martyn and get him all settled and still make it to work on time....especially if I do my walk through sheet the day before. I really like the new baby sitter. She is a stay at home mom, with a boy and a girl who are 3 and 2. She is an Andaluz mom, and her primary midwife was my second midwife, which is awesome. I think it's a good fit for both families and that helps me breathe a breath of relief.

We had our vendor bbq at work today, in the rain. The rain by the way, was awesome! It was totally warm out, and misty all morning. Then by the time the bbq started, it was sprinkling a little and by the time it was over, it was full on pouring. I love Oregon. Seriously.

It was kind of fun to meet a few of the vendors I've only talked on the phone with...nice to put a name to a face, and I'm sure it was for them as well. I was sort of required to "schmooz" them a little, which I did. I don't like to do that, but I am pretty ok at it. I think it's more that I talk to people fairly easily, I think people just feel at ease when they talk to me...I suppose that's a good quality to have.

It was kind of funny...the techs went in the ice cream cart and opened all the boxes, so they would be forced to leave the ice cream that didn't get eaten, at our shop. So now we have a freezer full of ice cream sandwiches and stuff. Those guys are crazy.

The day was pretty easy, but man am I tired. I was just dragging today, especially in the afternoon after I had a gut full of bbq and ice cream, ha!

When I picked Martyn up, Denise (the new baby sitter) was sitting with him on the couch looking at a cloth book. I really like that. She said they had another good day. Her kids really enjoy playing with Martyn, and he really enjoys them (because he's a total people person) and he really enjoyed her little wiener dog named Bradly. He's an old fella, but I guess he was really making Martyn laugh today. That doesn't surprise me, Martyn really likes dogs.

I enjoyed spending time with my son after work tonight. We came out in the back yard and sat in the grass for a long time. Sheba was really interested in Martyn, probably more than I've ever seen her. Martyn was really interested in the grass. He kept grabbing a handful, and pulling it out, then doing it all over again. He didn't seem to want to put it into his mouth, which I thought was strange since everything else he wants in his mouth. Then we came in and I "rapped" Baa Baa Black Sheep, to him several times while I was putting the dishes in the dishwasher away. He liked that a lot. It's so fun to be able to interact with him like that. After that, I took him upstairs and laid him on a blanket on the floor. He really likes being on the floor on the carpet because it's not slippery like the wood floors down stairs. I played the guitar for him for a little while and he was really diggin' it.

Eli came home, and joined us upstairs for a bit. With his encouragement, Martyn was totally doing the army crawl/scoot. Kind of like an inch worm. But he started on one side of the blanket facing a certain direction, and wound up on the other side of the blanket, facing the other direction. It was like he was trying to do laps or something. He's going to be crawling in no time, it's just amazing.

I'm gonna have to baby proof my house soon!