Proud of this one – almost straight out of the camera. Just a little cropping, a defog action and voila! Of course it took about 5 minutes of me saying Thomas’ name and begging him to look at me before I was able to take the photo, but it’s all about the setup, right?

Taken at the end of a long day – capped off by Kei getting a flat tire on his bike and Thomas and I having to go and pick him up. It did mean we missed the drywallers (is that a word?) who wanted to stay late because they were on a roll. So exciting now that we almost have walls. Real walls – not the pieces of cardboard that passed themselves off as walls on our second floor before we began this adventure. Oh no, THESE walls have insulation (I think I mentioned how fantastic that stuff is).

Oh and today I have had a few contractions and a lot of aching in my lower back. I have been madly drinking water and am tempted to lie on my left side under the desk just to keep this child in. (Kei’s advice was to clench.) I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow so I’ll let you know if I’m imagining things.

I am going to have to update my locket photos pretty soon. Kei bought this for my birthday a couple of years ago and I have not changed out the photos since I added these when Thomas was about six months old. Of course the problem is going to be when I have three boys in my life and only two spaces for photos. Kei has already accepted the fact that he will have to give up his position. I think he accepted it a long time ago…

P.S. In addition to providing more variety in my photos, I also promise more focus – as in, not blurry.

A little souvenir from my life in Japan. It seriously feels like a lifetime ago (and I guess for a ten year old, it is). This little fish has traveled from Japan to Australia and then across the world again to Portland. I hang him inside because he makes noise when you hang him in the wind and it can get a little irritating. Let’s just say that as a wind chime he works a little too well (someone in our apartment building in Australia actually asked us to take him down soon after we moved in).

OK – so I am running short on photo subjects. The difficulty is that with working five days a week, I often don’t usually remember my photo until I am in my pajama pants and unwilling to venture outside. So I have been limited to objects around my house. Objects that are right now covered in dust and, frankly, I am running out of interesting objects to photograph.  Never fear – this will all change as soon as I have this baby and am officially off work for a few months. I promise more variety – well AFTER the few thousand photos I post of the baby and his brother (and the inside of the hospital) of course.