Nesting and Pretending It's Fall

Jess threw up Friday morning, and spent the rest of the day on the couch. But he actually felt okay Saturday, surprisingly, and is totally fine today. So I put him to work. Haha. Actually I am nesting big time, so I've been painting the old furniture for the baby room white, to match the crib. But I realized quickly that even with my mask I was inhaling a TON of paint. So Jess took over today. He did my rocking chair and changing table. Now we just have the dresser, and we're done with painting.
I also painted little shelves, and Jess hung them for me along with some picture frames(sans baby pics for now, of course). I love my little scotties Sarah got me.
The changing table is that really glossy fake wood stuff, so we had to really sand and prime it first. It worked out fine except for the tops of the two shelves, for some reason. So I decided to try and mod podge black, grey, and white scrapbook paper in a kind of patchwork pattern. Apparently I should practice with mod podge more, because it turned out all bubbly and funky. But from far away, and now with all the stuff on the shelves, it looks cute.
Then we moved the rocking chair in, and put the cushions on. Once again, I did a pretty poor job of covering the cushions, as you can see from the bulges and wrinkles, but it'll do.
This is random, but Cason was watching Spirit like this today, with his hands in his pockets. SO cute:
Yep, that's a new bruise on his forehead. He was spinning a few nights ago, lost control, and flew headfirst into the tv stand.

This ALSO is random, but as one of Jess's birthday gifts, I ordered the "Little Kids National Geographic". Sounds like not a gift for Jess at all, but trust me, he likes that sort of thing. The first issue came the other day, and it's so cute. It gives simple little facts about animals, and has little games and stuff too. It's perfect for Paige's age.
We got so excited that fall's coming when it cooled off for a few days, so even though it's back to low 90s for the next week or so, we decorated for fall today.
Skye's blog alerted me to the fact that baby pumpkins are available now, so we picked some up today. Cason was SO excited to help me put them on the mantle.
Then you'd better believe we had pumpkin pasta for dinner.
I make that all the time, partly because we love it, but also because both kids will eat it. Cason eats almost anything, but there are very few dinners I make that I can get Paige to eat.
She actually loves it, despite the disgusted look on her face here. She has to examine every single bite of food, like a certain aunt, but I won't name names(Teetee).

Now, we have some leftover pumpkin, so I'm thinking pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. Or a delicious pumpkin roll if I can find my mom's recipe.