Oatmeal BABY!!!!

So, considering that I have been feeling a little stressed (and somewhat tired) this morning was well worth the mess! I am a little OCD when it comes to mess and with Kaitlynn its even worse. I have a hard time letting her just try new feeding techniques becuase i hate the clean-up later. However, this morning i decided to try and let her use a spoon again. (its been a while since last time). She loved that she was using the spoon, but when there was no more on it she would just fling it half way across the room. ugh....oatmeal flying everywhere! I tried to show her to fill it up in the bowl, but alas, she only liked the-shoveling-into-her-mouth part. Oh well, that fact that she liked it was success enough. And to be fair, it really made me laugh how excited she got about it. So, I decided to shar it. What better way to start the day than to appreciate your sweet little girl and the HUGE mess that she can make!!

OH my.....thank goodness for a wonderful hubby.

I don't know why i am feeling so stressed about this, but today i got a call from my doctor's office with results from some blood work that was done. The Cystic Fibrosis test came back positive, which most likely means i am a carrier, however, if Simon is a carrier our new baby has a 1 in 4 chance of having the disease. I know there are worse things, but just the idea is stressing me out a little bit and makes me wonder if i could handle the mental stress of knowing for the next five months that my baby could be very sick. Regardless, i suppose the Lord prepares us to be able to deal with what we are given. Never meaning of course that things are easy but that we can deal. :) On a lighter note however, we are still going to get started building our house in the first week of September which is a huge blessing. i can't wait for that project to get under way. We have been working on this for over nine months and I am just totally ready for it. Its going to be stressful, but wonderful in the end! To finally have our own home is going to be amazing!!!!! I really am so blessed to have all that I have, mostly the wonderful husband that I do have. He supports me non-stop and helps me to see that things are okay, even when i am totally freaking out (like right now). Regardless of what we find out in the next couple of weeks, we are going to be so blessed to have this next little person in our family.

So happy!

Simon and I are soooo happy that he is now working the day shift instead of the nasty, wierd, crappy night shift! It's really nice to be able to eat dinner together in a REAL way instead of him coming home for twenty minutes to scarf down the meal that I worked hard on. :) Also, its was really fun at the beginning of the month to take Kaitlynn to her first Fourth of July parade. She really enjoyed it, especially considering she was given a little American flag that she could wave around. It was great! In fact, on that note its been so much fun to see our baby growing up so quickly. Although she is now 14 months she is really starting to make progress on walking by herself. She got really nervous about walking alone after getting dropped on her face a month ago, but is now getting her adventurous little spirit back. She lets me walk with her holding only ONE hand instead of both. Yes, i will soon be able to just let her walk with me. hurray. how fun. OH, yes, and I must not forget that my friend Norma and I took her to the nature park down the road to feed the ducks, my goodness did she love that. Watching all the birds she was in amazment. So, on the whole, life is good and we are all so happy.