The Mess

Kids are too funny. Have you ever watched them eat spaghetti? Isabelle only likes to feed it to herself and when she does she gets it every where. How much fun would it be to only get it in her mouth? She has even learned how to slurp it up when she gets a long piece. They pick up on certain things so quickly. I just love it. I let her feed herself some yogurt yesterday and what a mess that was. Towards the end the spoon just was not working right so she had to use her hand. And when one hand was not quite good enough the other hand had to help out. It was a good thing we were at home where there was easy access to clean up stuff. She does seem to be getting better at using a spoon and making it to her mouth. Usually she turns the spoon so that the food plops into her mouth instead of inserting the spoon into her mouth. Not always does the oatmeal make it to her mouth this way by spoon, and then she must rely on good old fingers to do the trick. I don’t think she minds at all.

Well as this week is quickly going by we are preparing for Ben’s departure to Salt Lake City. Today he is in Portland, being trained on a new computerized system of handhelds that the terminal in Sacramento will be implementing in two weeks. He will actually be back for three days to help them get up and running. What a deal. As it looks right now we are going to be able to see each other much more often than the last time, I think at least every weekend. I am pretty excited about that and I think so is Ben. So long as everything goes well on my end and Ben’s, in finding us a house, we plan to have our stuff packed up and ready to go to Salt Lake the second weekend in May. I hope that time will go by pretty fast. I think it will at least, especially if we get to spend a little bit more time together.

Other than that things are going well. We are just taking it one day at a time. Isabelle does not seem to notice when Ben is away for a day, so maybe she won’t really notice when he is gone for a week at a time. Ben’s coworkers are trying to put together a going away party for him this weekend, which should be interesting and fun. I know he will really miss the people in Sacramento, but he should be able to develop new friendships at his new “barn.” Baby “O” is doing great, getting bigger each day. I some days I think my belly cannot really get any bigger but I know that it will. Ben finds it to be a lot of fun and very entertaining to see my belly do “jumps.”