Linden turns one!

Today our sweet, happy, amazing little Linden turned one!

It's also my step dad's birthday so yesterday went to the beach to a pizza place to eat. Then we headed to the beach to play. Once again not warm enough just yet to get wet, but the kids still love to play. The found a bunch of huge shells under the stairs. Linden loved crawling all over the sand. Then today I wanted to take a picture of Linden with his cake and he reached up and started digging right in before we could get his shirt off. I was only going to give him a piece to smash up, but we ended up giving him the whole thing. At first he seemed to like smearing his hands all over the cake, but then he hated it! He started to cry and wanted nothing more to do with it. He wouldn't even taste it. Linden is changing so fast. He all of the sudden has a ton of hair. He has 7 teeth. He is getting better about eating solids now and seems to enjoy it as long as there are no chunks in it. If there is, he start to gag until it all comes back up. He eats 3 times a day with solid foods and still has 4 bottles of goat milk formula. We have been able to decrease the formula a little now that he is taking in more solids.  He is really fast at army crawling and prefers to travel around this way. He only gets up on all all 4 to crawl when he doesn't have clothes on and doesn't want to feel the cold hard floor on him. He loves his siblings! If they are paying attention to him, he is so happy. KaeLynn likes to play with Linden more then Daniel does right now. Daniel can't figure how to play with him yet. Linden is a great sleeper. Still sleeping about 11-12 hours at night and he takes two naps a day about 2 hours each. I hope he will be ready to go down to one nap in the afternoon by the time summer starts so we can be away from the house more to swim. It's hard going out these days during one of Linden's nap because he gets real grumpy when he is tired. His first and only word he says is mum. And he knows it's me! When he wants me he will craw to me saying "mum, mum, mum, mum". He loves to play outside. Every time I start to take him out and he see we are going to play in the sand, he starts to squeal and gets all bouncy in my arms. He still sucks on his two middle fingers. He only does it when he is tired, or while waiting for us to give him the bottle. He has not attached himself to any blanket, so maybe he won't be a blanky kid like my other ones were. He weighs 23 lbs. This year really went by way to fast.