Pictures of us

Linden is changing so much! He is now 7 months old. He has 2 lower teeth. He is making all sorts of sounds with his mouth. His little jibber-jabber is so adorable! The last few nights he has been rolling over onto his stomach in the middle of the night and not be able to roll back on his back. So he wakes us crying. I hope he figures out how to roll back over soon because we were really enjoying him sleeping through the night.

 

KaeLynn holding Maeling.

Daniel playing restaurant with his stuffed animals.

KaeLynn and Daniel playing this game they made up where they race with their shorts down to their ankles. Such silly kids!

Daddy and Linden relaxing in the outdoor kitchen.

Crazy Sock day for school.

Our first camping trip in our back yard. Baby slept inside in his crib because the baby monitor reaches out to where we were. The rest of us shared a tent. 

The Keys

During Conference Weekend Cavan was asked to go down to the Florida Keys to help provide hurricane relief down there. They really got hit hard. This is so close to home and could have easily been us. It is going to be a long time before this place is back up and running again. Cavan had to sleep on the beach since there was no hotels to stay in. These people really needed help so I am glad that we were in a position to help. 

Linden is 6 Months Old

Linden sleeps about 12 hours at night, but I am still waking him around 9:30 pm to feed him and then putting him right back to bed. He is still eating every 3 hrs, and sometimes will go 3 1/2 -4 hrs in between meals. He eats about 5 times a day 6 oz each time. He is napping 4 times day and usually sleeps about an hour in a half. We are also working up to him being awake for an 1 hr in a half. Sometimes its longer or shorter. He is so much better at tummy time now. We are working on him sitting up on his own. He is still sticking with sucking his two middle fingers. It is really adorable! He loves when people pay attention to him and is such a smiley kid. When ever he gets his clothes changed he laughs so much because it tickles him.We started doing physical therapy because he had torticollis and could not turn his head to the right very well. He is now doing much better and has a much fuller range of motion.  He is grabbing a lot of things now and everything goes to his mouth. He even has interest in holding his bottle sometimes. He weighs 21 lbs. He is also having his first tooth coming in! He has been a little more crankier then usual and has woken up a couple times at night crying, but overall he seems to doing fine with it. 

We had General Conference for church this last weekend and while we were watching it, another one of our trees fell down. It was so loud and scary!. We were so blessed that no one was outside. We are going to leave this tree alone for a while and let the kids play on it. 

KaeLynn found my phone and took a selfie!

Kids Birthday Party

We had to wait a couple weeks after the kids birthdays to have a party because of the hurricane. We rented another blow up water slide and again it was a huge hit with the kids. They had a blast, and with all the stressful things going on it was nice to have a little fun.

 

Kids Birthdays and Hurricane Irma

The kids birthdays were during all the hurricane mess. Daniels 6th birthday was on Friday and the Hurricane was coming on Sunday. We had a lot to do to get ready for the hurricane and it was a stressful week. Daniel was a trooper though and we did have a birthday dinner and cake for him for his night. Then the Hurricane hit late Sunday night. We boarded up the windows and hoped for the best. We all slept in the den and barely got any sleep that night. We made it through the whole major part of the storm with power. It wasn't until 7 am the next morning that we lost power. We had a lot trees go down but no major property damage. Only the awning on Cavan's workshop was damaged. After only one day of no running water, electricity, and air conditioning, I decided to go to Tampa to stay with Cavan's cousin because they never lost power. We stayed there for few days until my mom's power came back on and stayed with her until our power came back on Friday night. Cavan was leaving to drive up to Jacksonville the next morning, because our church was getting together work crews to help clean up there. Saturday was KaeLynn's birthday so we went out to eat Friday night to celebrate her. We were so excited to get back in our home, just to discover our air conditioner was out. It took 4 days to get it fixed. We were really grateful to at least have power and running water and to know that people south of us in the keys were struggling much more then us. Some of KaeLynn's presents did not come in time, but again KaeLynn was such a trooper. It was a busy week after, with Cavan either helping other people or us trying to clean up our own property. 

 

Labor day weekend

Labor day weekend is a little different for us in Florida then when we were in Oregon. We used to camp all the time on holiday weekends. It is pretty hot to camp in the summer here so we find other fun things to do. We found a new spot in Ormond Beach with a splash pad. It was a really windy day, but oh so beautiful! Then on Monday we went to the Sanford Zoo to finally see the new black bear exhibit. The bears were a lot smaller then I thought they would be. I have yet to see a wild black bear. I hear they are out and about a lot. Then Linden got to ride the zoo train for the first time. We then finished our day eating a pic-nic by Lake Monroe in Sanford.

 

Linden is now rolling over! He has rolled over from his stomach to his back twice and I missed it both times. Then the other day he was on his back and I went in to the kitchen and when I walked back in he was on his stomach. I missed it again! But he finally rolled over for me. He is just so cute!

Linden is 5 Months Old

This chunka munk is now 5 months old. He weighs 22 lbs and is in 6-9 months clothes. He has been wearing 6 month clothes now for the last month. He is so chunky and we just love him! He so happy and loves to smile at people. He sleeps about 9 hrs at night. He is still eating at his dream feed around 10 pm and he eats about 5-6 times anywhere from 4-6 oz of milk. He has 4 naps a day. I am trying to get him a 4 hour schedule. He eats about every 3-4 hrs depending on the time of day. He takes longer naps earlier in the day. I have found him a couple of times sucking on his 2 middle fingers. We will have to wait and see if this will a new habit for him. He is getting much better at tummy time. Overall he is a happy boy!