September visit from mom

Visits from Grandma Susan are always busy times for Aaron. So much to explore in the grandma room, including things he has seen there before. Those things are much more interesting when the room is occupied. He has both played and dropped that picture frame before, but this was the first time he dropped it on his grandmother's foot.

There was lots of playing in his room:

There were many trips to the park by our house, which wore out the two grandmas more than they wore out Aaron.









In case you can't read the top of that one, it says "Collingswood Car Wash". If you press a button, a spray of water comes out. The kids love it. Aaron was running back and forth between the two spray heads until he was soaked!!

A little news about me- I am starting a new job on December 1. I will be working at Cooper Hospital in Camden, NJ, which is where I did my residency. The shifts are 9 hours, as opposed to 12 hours, which makes a huge difference when you are working in an ER. I will be doing 12 shifts a month, all 11pm to 8am. I enjoy working nights, and this schedule will allow me to be home for dinner and bedtime every night. In my current position, I am really gone 13 to 13 1/2 hours and often miss Aaron completely. Last weekend, he didn't see me from friday night until sunday night and I think that freaked him out. This job is salaried as opposed to an hourly wage and comes with a great benefits package. It was so hard to tell my boss that I was leaving. He has been incredibly good to me during some really tough times. As always, he was a gentleman in this situation, too, saying that the most important thing has to be my family's happiness.