so much for writing more often! oh well, i do what i can. well, jason and i are qualified for a home loan and we're going up by his dad's house (about 3 hours from us) to look at houses in the area. and if that goes well we'll get jobs up there and be all moved by around october or november! yay i'm so thrilled to be out of the crummy apartment we're in now, it's got so many problems that just seem to get worse by the minute. i found mold in the kitchen ceiling the other day...ew! well gracie is doing very well, she's started to figure out how to crawl a little bit. it's too funny to watch her, she gets her rear end all up in the air, then her front, but almost every time she tries to move her hands to go somewhere she ends up doing a nosedive into the carpet. she gets stronger by the day though, and if she can't scooch to where she wants to go, she just rolls. still no teeth but i'm still nursing so i can easily deal with that! she's eating about 2 jars of baby food per day now, one fruity thing for breakfast and then some sort of meat/veggies thing for supper. she's started waking up again at night which is kind of a bother. i've got to admit that i've just been lazy with getting her back into her crib at night, i just let her sleep with me...hopefully this won't come back to bite me later on, but i'm sure it will and i will just have to deal with it then i guess. my cat bit gracie in the face a few days ago...so yeah now the cat's gotta go, which is kind of sad cuz she's a really good cat. and she was doing so well with the baby, but one day she just up and bit her for no reason, gracie wasn't messing with her at all!!!  i looked at pics of gracie when we were still in the hospital after the birth today, my how she's grown! it's funny but i can't believe she was that small just 8 months ago!

well it's mid july now and gracie's doing great with solid foods...introduced veggies a few weeks ago. she seems to prefer sweet potatoes to just about anything so far, but we'll keep adding to her little menu as time goes on. she'll be going on a sleepover this weekend at her great aunt's house, so that should be pretty fun for her, lots of kids to play with!! our cat has finally decided that 'this baby thing' is going to stick around for a while and that she is okay. only took six and a half months, but now the two of them play together all the time, it's so funny to watch! and the cat is so patient with gracie, which surprised me because she's not the world's nicest cat to begin with, so i was very cautious about the two of them interacting at first, but now gracie has a little shadow almost all the time. we still haven't gotten financing for the house in order. i got a phone number from my sister for a lady that does mortgages and that sort of thing, but it turned out to be the wrong number!! oh well, i'll keep trying until i get somewhere. we went on a family camping trip a few weeks ago, and gracie loved every little minute of it. it was during the fourth of july, so we had fireworks, and gracie and i watched them together. she seemed to like them a lot, noise and all...she even fell asleep during the grand finale! she loves sleeping in the tent, swimming in the lake with daddy was a good time too, and she even went fishing with us(i had her in a baby bjorn while i fished, she tried to 'help' me hold the few fish i was able to catch. well, that about brings us up to speed with our crazy life so far. as always, i'll try to write more often!

it's been a while since i've been on here and put anything in, and so much has happened so i guess i'll try to be brief-ish. we've been up to jason's dad's a few times now, and are looking around at places to buy and that sort of thing...found a few, now we just need to get financing in order...gracie is 6 months old now and is doing so well!! her personality has really come through these last few months and boy is she a sweet happy baby(90% of the time)! she can roll over from both tummy to back and vice-versa, she can sit up with a tiny bit of help, and she tries to scoot around on the floor a little bit now. we're feeding her solid food for one meal a day now, just cereal, then veggies..yay.

so the sports show was kinda dull this year. we took my younger brother matthew(10) and he had a pretty good time. he shot a paintball gun for the first time and did pretty well with hitting the targets. then we went home and jason went to his weekend job(bouncing at a bar) and i took matthew home and hung out with my family for a while with gracie. my mom kept trying to get a picture of her smiling, but every time she'd try to take a picture the red eye reduction light would go on and gracie was so mesmerized by that that she'd stop smiling and stare at the light! i think she's settling in to her night time routine really well now. she almost seems to know when it's time for pajamas, and then after i put them on her we play quietly for a little while, she eats a good meal, and then she drifts off to sleep. she didn't even move tonight when i put her in the crib. plus i'm getting better at not picking her up everytime she makes a noise, instead i hum her bedtime song and if that doesn't quiet her down, then i go check out what the fuss is. i'm so proud of her! such a good baby...now if it would just stay warm enough to go outside more!!