The Petersen Family: October 2010

We have had a busy few weeks since my last blog post. Most exciting Corinne turned 1 year old!! Her birthday was on the 7th which was a Thursday and we had a costume birthday party for her on the following Saturday.

We figured with a birthday in October she may as well use her Halloween costume more than once. We dressed up with a theme in mind. We were Zapp Brannigan, Leela and Nibbler from the cartoon Futurama. Originally we were going to dress her up in either her Princess Aura costume we bought her or the Tinker Bell costume Marina bought her. We still have a few more chances before the end of the month though.

She started out by just picking at the pink icing with delicate and deliberate pinching before really getting into the cake.

That same weekend was also busy with Dana and BJ down here to help with some house repairs. I will take some pictures of everything we have worked on with Dana and make it a separate post.

She has a few other things that are new that came with turning one. We turned her car seat around forward facing, she loves it, she is drinking vitamin D milk now instead of formula, actually we started that a few weeks early and after the baby formula recall we were glad we did. She has also started walking. She took her first steps on September 13 and she has been getting more confident all the time. It is hard to believe that an entire year has gone by already. It is already hard to remember life without her. We love her very much.

Our sister-in-law Cassandra was here in Texas for some training with the Army. We both drove to a town halfway between Houston and Austin and got dinner together. The McDonald's here was just a place with indoor toys we stopped at after dinner. It was still too hot to spend a lot of time stay outdoors. Ben and Cassandra are moving to Florida here soon so we are hoping to drive out and see them soon.

My younger brother David got home from his mission and came down for a visit. While he was here David wanted to try some alligator so we picked some up at an exotic meat store along with some python. Here Nathan and David were cooking it out on the grill. The really dark meat is deer, which the salesman threw in for free. I thought the deer tasted too much like liver; I like my meat with a little more fat on it. Both the alligator and python were really chewy and tasted better fried, when you couldn't really taste them. A fun experience, but we were all actually a bit nervous about eating it because we cooked it ourselves.