Lately...

Here are some photos taken lately on my phone. I was just uploading them to my computer so I could clear space on my phone for all the baby photos I'm sure to be taking in the near future!!

I've continued working on a few sewing projects. I made two wet bags and have stuff to make two more, but for now, I'm just going to leave it at that - maybe next week I'll make some more. One is a bit smaller than I had intended, but it has a sweet little handle (I used this tutorial to make it). Maybe it'll be perfect for shorter outings. The other is a bit larger and quite simple (I didn't use a tutorial, but it wasn't anything complicated). 

One day last week, while I was baking in my kitchen, there was an extra loud crash from above (much louder than the normal bangs and clatters of 2 kids playing). It was so loud, I actually jumped. Then I waited for the wailing of a little one, but there was nothing. Not a sound, not a movement. I was a bit perplexed (and not going to lie, in the back of my mind, I hoped no one had died - my mind is kind of crazy). A few moments later, I got a call from Jac asking if I'd come up. The spice cabinet door had falled off, breaking some jars of spices on the way down and scattering glass around the kitchen floor. She needed someone to help watch sweet Z while she cleaned up the glass.

Only thing is, Zia was sick with a fever, so it was a bit of a challenge to watch her - I didn't really want to get too close (it's hard with that big smile that would fool anyone into thinking she wasn't sick at all) for the sake of trying to stay well myself right here at the end of the pregnancy. Poor thing, I kind of played the "Oh let's go look at that over there" game each time she was coming towards me! She entertained herself with a little board book for a while - until she closed her finger in the book and couldn't figure out how to get it unstuck!! P was up in his loft (can you see him in the photo below) setting booby traps that I'm sure would ACTUALLY hurt if they went off on you - I begged him to make sure they didn't go off on me, but he said it was out of his control! Ha! (I did make it out of there without getting a log to my face or belly though, but be warned, that place is rigged ;)

Then the other day, after weeks, maybe months, of admiring the grapes in the neighbor's yard, I became desperate and convinced P to climb over and reach the ones closest to us so we could try. I'd have done it myself if it hadn't been for my darn belly! He was getting more daring and wanted to go all the way over, but we convinced him that was probably not a good idea. We did get to each try a grape, and it was fantastic! Concords that were bursting with ripeness! Now I just gotta make friends with the neighbors so they'll share. (I'm going to be so sad if they just let those grapes go to waste... I can't believe they aren't harvesting them!)

Last Friday marked the beginning of fall (in my mind). The rains came. I started noticing the trees changing. Mostly only the one type of tree is changing so far. It's going from green to orange to red. Looks like the leaves are on fire.

And this morning, we had a little chuckle at the newspaper dispenser being turned upside down on Belmont. I like that Portland has character like that.