Hop in the City!

The highlight of my fall has now come and gone. This weekend was the annual Hop in the City at the Schlafly Tap Room. This was either the 6th or 7th year Kevin and I have gone....I guess I need to count the glasses in our cabinet to see how many its been. But we always have a great time. This year was no exception! We went along with Lauren and her sister Shawn and one of Shawn's friends, and Jen and her friend Katie met up with us a bit later. Good times were had by all (I think). My favorite tastes were the Pumpkin Ale (always...), Cask conditioned American IPA, and Biere de Garde. Kevin said he was going to taste all 43 beers, but he kept coming up with exceptions (like....'I'm not tasting the ones that they sell in bottles' and 'I'm not tasting any of the dark beers'.....can you say cheater?). But anyway, we had a good time while Grandma June took care of Gus. There were certainly people there with babies (even one that had to only be a couple weeks old !!!!!!).....people are stupid.

The Southwick girls



Me and Kevin



Jen had a very good time! Too bad this picture is blurry.....



Kevin took this picture. I guess he saw this guy was going to try to get in it, so he waited til he was posed like he was supposed to be. Dammit Kevin, this would have been a good one of me and Jen!



Sunday was Kevin's brother's birthday, so we went to his mom's house for dinner. Then we went to Breese to visit Kevin's grandma, and this was the first time she saw Gus. I really liked Gus's outfit, but I forgot to take any pictures of just him.

Four generations



This morning Gus went to the doctor for his 10 week checkup (almost a week late - he'll be 11 weeks tomorrow). He weighs 14 lb 5 oz, and is 24.5 inches tall....everything was in the 75th percentile. He's officially supposed to be out of size 1 diapers.....but we have a few more to use up at home and at day care before we open up the packages of size 2!!!

Things have been crazy busy for me at work. I've been running back and forth a lot between Wash U and the Danforth Center....this is good for passing the time quickly, but not conducive to pumping.....but I'm managing. I also decided to apply for a post doc fellowship that's due next Thursday (!!!!) and there's a meeting I have to go to this week that I have to make a poster for. A bit too much to do, but I guess that's better than doing nothing! I'm certainly glad to be getting back into the swing of things at work though.

I did finally get a couple good videos of Gus taking/smiling...so I either have to figure out how to edit them so they're shorter, or see if they'll upload faster at work than they do at home. We'll see.