What we did in the heat yesterday...

Napped in our one air conditioned room. Spent a lot of time in just a diaper and had many "wipe downs" with a cool cloth. In the early evening we walked to the neighborhood farmer's market and got a half flat of berries! As many raspberries and blueberries as my heart desires - that's one of my favorite things about Oregon and this time of year. I've been eating them by the bowl full! It's not just that they're bountiful. It's that they're bountiful and delicious and perfect. It goes a ways towards making up for the heat - which, ever since our first summer here, I've found more uncomfortable and oppressive than anywhere else I've lived (including Florida and Los Angeles). And now I have a baby who seems so sensitive to the heat. It doesn't take much for him to get very overheated and sweaty! What is it about here?? Maybe that it gets hotter as the day wears on rather than cooler? Maybe I'm still not used to living someplace where it's not an easy option to just head to the beach? My thoughts frequently turn to wishing we could head up to Orcas Island this summer... be on the water and outside most of the day.

P.S. Today is Calvin's 5 month birthday! I cleared all of the now-too-small things out of his dresser to make room for new things (and so that we could stop having to fish through the piles each time he needed a new outfit asking ourselves, does this still fit??). It's amazing all that he's grown out of already. It felt a little hard and emotional to put away some of the tiny first things that kept his little body warm but I feel so proud at how thriving and full of life he is! I still have a feeling of disbelief that we have a 5 month old baby - 5 months already!! How can that be?! There can be entire lifetimes in 5 months! All the growth and and presence that's happened... It's interesting balanced with that lovely magic feeling that says he's always been here, that I can't remember what my days were possibly full of before him... Here are the piles of outgrown items waiting to be put away until future use: