Fixes and Baby-Proofing

Lucy's newfound mobility and increasing speed are making us jump to the long put-off babyproofing of 83 Durant. I'm installing outlet covers on the outlets in the pink room, dining room, and her room. We also bought a couple of baby gates. They're pretty much useless at the moment, as none of the doorways in our house are square, thus making the "pressure mount" fixtures useless. We're going to have to do some modding to make them work. Fingers crossed.

We had to replace the deadbolt lock on the basement door. It unfortunately broke in the "locked" position, so we couldn't open the door. We use our friend Bob at Mill City Lock. He came and took out the old one, and then showed Jake how to install a new, double-keyed one. The term "double key lock" might have you thinking it some kind of release-the-missiles thing, but it just means that there's a key on both the outside and the inside (unlike a typical key on the outside and knob on the inside). This is good, since the basement door has a window.

Other than that, we've taken on a half-bushel of peaches and half-bushel of tomatoes (that's a bushel o' produce for those of you counting along at home). We've made salsa, soup, and sauce from the tomatoes, and done some yummy things with the peaches (such as eating them just as they are, and saucing them, and cutting them in half, filling them with nuts and brown sugar, and baking them). Jake is working on canning the sauces right now. Right now, while it is 85 degrees out with 99% humidity. Nice.

Lucy is eating more and more table foods. Apparently at day care, she demands to have the same food as the other kids, and has so far enjoyed pasta shells with butter and parmesan cheese, grilled cheese sandwiches, graham crackers, and ravioli. Right now she's chowing down on some peas and tofu. Yum!

Also, I made some barrettes for Lucy:

They're pretty easy. I used a few online tutorials:

Hair Clip Tutorial

Making Cute Hair Clips Tutorial

And of course, as with all things good and crafty in my life these days, the original source of the inspiration and further link-finding was Whip-up