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Belated Birthday

Last Thursday was Kristoffer's 28th birthday. Since we spent the entire day driving back home to Indiana, we didn't get a chance to celebrate his special day until this past Saturday.

Terry spent the entire morning making Kristoffer a delicious jelly cake, using Kim's homemade jelly. Karter was so eager to help and thoroughly enjoyed his job of putting the candles on the cake.

With a little help from his Aunt Emmy!

It was great to be able to celebrate Kristoffer's birthday with some of our family, it is definitely something that we missed while living in MN.

Happy 28th Birthday, Kristoffer...I can't believe you are practically 29!!

Big Changes

I apologize for our lack of posts over the past week...if you haven't heard, our family has undergone some major changes in the past two weeks. Two weeks ago, Kristoffer was offered and accepted a position as a Buyer for hhgregg in Indianapolis. Within 10 days of accepting the offer we had to leave his current job at Target, pack up our entire house, clean our house top to bottom, find a realtor, notify all of our bills of our address change, say good-bye to our MN friends and drive 14 hours to Indiana...and then unpack once we got here. Until our house sells in MN, we are living with the "World's Greatest In-Laws"! We are almost settled and trying to figure out our new routines.

Before we left MN we enjoyed our last breakfast as a family around our table. Don't judge...all we had left in the cabinet were a couple of pop-tarts!

Kaden sure enjoyed his "last" meal.

Today was my hunky husbands first day at his new job, and I am just sure he has knocked their socks off!!

We will try to be better at posting as we regain a sense of normalcy!!!

The Best

Karter is the best Big Brother...next to my Big Brother of course! Earlier this week when Kaden wasn't feeling that great, Karter took it upon himself to read him books. Before he read each one, he would declare that each one was Kaden's favorite. They are so lucky to have each other!!

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Poor Baby

Our poor little Kaden has been down right miserable for the past few days. It started last Friday with him just being fussy all day, then Saturday the nose started running and he would wake up groaning in pain. He has also had a fever for the past few days (which broke last night). We assume the it is just his teeth bothering him, since he is eating fine and other than chewing on things and drooling like crazy he is acting fine. It's tough watching him be so miserable, and other than give him pain relievers, there isn't much we can do to help him.

If there is an upside to all of this, this photo sums it up...all he wants to do is cuddle! Saturday afternoon I snuggled with him on the couch most of the afternoon and then Daddy got some snuggle time too. During the day snuggling is good, but waking up multiple times in the night to snuggle/soothe him back to sleep is wearing me down! Hopefully this phase passes soon and our baby gets some relief!

On the Move

Kaden definitely has his own style of crawling, but it works for him. Something clicked for him today and he has been crawling all around the living room. Sorry Gramaw T, that is a Rascal ball he is chasing!

What's for Breakfast?

This morning I was getting Kaden out of bed and changed, and I asked Karter what he wanted for breakfast. This is part of our morning routine and I still don't know what he is going to ask for, each day he wants something different for breakfast. Today he said he wanted cereal and then he ran out of the nursery. When Kaden and I caught up to him, this is what we found...

He had gotten all of the cereal boxes out and was trying to decide which one he wanted!

He is such a great helper than even after he made his decision (Apple Cinnamon Cheerios), he put all of the other boxes away!

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Cute Videos

We take a lot of videos of the boys, but sometimes I forget what I have a video of until we put them on the computer. By that point they are a few weeks old and not that relevant. However, these three videos are just too cute not to post!!

This first one was taken over Labor Day in Kansas City. Kaden thinks its hilarious to hit daddy in the face and Karter decided to get in on the action too...and then Luna tried to hog the camera!!



Kaden is a jumper...he loves the johnny jumper and loves to jump when you are holding him. This next video doesn't show much jumping (because he is such a ham for the camera), but his smiles are just too precious not to share!



Kristoffer took this last video a few weeks ago. We had just started out for our nightly walk when it started to rain on us, by the time we got home the rain had stopped and we had the brightest rainbow. Karter loved watching the rainbow in the sky.