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!