Blue Eyes and I went on a date to Princeton today while his daddy attended a lecture at the university. I wore him in my frontal red papoose as we window- shopped in old town and wandered around a local orchard. At the orchard, I read the growing season chart to him then introduced him to the farm animals and told him all about how excited he will be to chase chickens and feed goats for 10 cents a few years from now. 
I believe that fall comes early to Princeton and leaves late. Okay not really. But it really does seem like it. Today, the colors are finally fading, but when Blue Eyes and I were here last week for his 2nd doctors app, the air was warmer and the colors more brilliant. That day, we had a picnic in a park near the Europesque campus. That was my first time to experience the social mommy phenomenon. If you set 4 single women on 4 corners of a grassy square, the likelihood that any 2 of them (much less all 4) would strike up a random conversatoin is low... Now make that 4 women with babies. Suddenly they are destined to convene. "How old is yours?" "How much does he weigh?" "Cute hat." "How was labor?" "Are you nursing?" It came so naturally and did not seem odd, even up here in New Jersey where people are generally less approachable than they are in Texas.
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