Anyway, as I said, my family came up here for the eclipse so our house was pretty full last weekend! My parents stayed with us the first two nights before they could check into their AirBnb and Katie, her two friends and Natachia stayed at Katie's new apartment. I am soooo excited for her to move up here officially in just a couple weeks! But yeah, I am definitely not used to feeding 10 people at a time! We blew through our food so fast! Haha. But it was so fun to all be together, although we were definitely missing Eric. We went peach picking on Saturday and got some delicious peaches which Katie's friends used some of to make some AMAZING peach cupcakes. I love how Oregon has so many u-pick farms close by. The produce is just so much better when you get to pick it at the peak of ripeness! And I love being able to support local farms.
Anyway, the eclipse and family visiting is the big news around here. But I also started my new job last week! It has been good so far! I really like my co-workers. Lori is the OT I'll be working with and Ha is the other PT who I am job sharing with and so far we get along really well. I think they'll be a great team. I've finally made it through reviewing all of my student's charts and IEPs and I spent a good deal of time of Friday tracking down equipment so this next week I will get to dive into actually starting some training and meeting some of my more involved kiddos. Then school starts the week after next!
Friday was Emily's last day. It was weird saying goodbye to her. I think it's still a little surreal to me, like I expect to just see her and Arlo again tomorrow. Arlo and Levi have gotten so cute together, I wonder if they'll miss each other. Levi doesn't start day care till next week though so we have our back-up nanny, Sonja, covering for us this week. I'm nervous for Levi to start daycare. I'm worried about how his first day will go, how it will affect his nap schedule (which is so great right now, he sleeps 2 1/5 to 3 hours in the pm, I love it!), and how it will affect his behavior in the evenings on Wed and Thurs. I'm worried that daycare will just totally wear him out so he will be a total grouch when he's home with us those evenings. But I think it will be a beneficial switch for our family overall. We'll be saving a lot of money and Eric will get to come home earlier in the evenings which is a huge bonus.
Another thing that happened recently was some weird health stuff. First, Levi came down with a funky rash all over his body! It looked awful but did not appear to itch or bother him at all and he had literally no other symptoms! But it moved around! It would be on his legs and back and then move to his arms and belly. It was super weird but then within 24 hours it was gone.
Then yesterday, I came down with a horrible UTI. I had never had one before and this one was like baptism by fire. And it came on when we were at the temple, right at the start of the session! And guess who was the witness couple? Yep, this girl and her man. So yeah, sitting through that session was literally one of the hardest things I've ever done. It was almost as distracting as being in labor! Sooo bad. So immediately after the session, Eric took me to urgent care. Only urgent care is not so urgent on Saturdays, there was a 2 and a half hour wait! So ridiculous! But thankfully they got me sent over to the lab sooner than that. I've never given a urine sample that looked like kool-ade before. There was so much blood. It was disgusting! But yeah, while I did that, Eric went and got me some Azo which took a whole hour to kick in, but after it did I felt so much better. And now I'm on antibiotics and feeling almost completely back to normal. Crazy.
So yeah, that's been our crazy life lately. I was realizing as I got the pictures for the last couple of weeks off of my phone, that we didn't get any pictures from the eclipse or from the family visit. Which is a bummer, but here are some other random pictures I did take!
Levi's curls on point. Love them so much!!
Eric and I took Levi to the OMSI again the other day and he loved it even more than last time! He had a wonderful time throwing the balls into the water tornado!
Blackberries are in season right now and we have a ton of wild ones growing right around our house! Levi has loved eating them straight off the vine. When we go outside he points to the path where they are and asks for them with "ba?"
Levi just chilling and surveying his domain.
We went to this awesome icecream place with my parents in Portland on Thursday. They are all locally sourced and delicious. I had Oregon blackberry crumble in between two butterscotch cookies and it was amazing.