half a year gone by!!!

I can't believe our baby boy is already half a year old! You think the time is dragging on when you're in the present, but looking back, wow, it really has flown! We just left our wonderful Dr. Kelly, who we went through so much with! She got my thyroid levels under control, which in turn gave us the ability to get pregnant and have this bundle of joy in our lives! With all the ob appointments, listening to Kort's heartbeat, and delivery, we sure will miss her. She was moving to Texas anyway, so I guess it was time to part. We just went to the new doctor here in Austin and I feel pretty good about him.  He did things differently, but I liked how he checked Kort's progress and development. Here's his 6 month wellness stats:

Weight: 17 lbs. 10 oz. = 45th percentile

Height: 28 inches = 81st percentile

Head circumference: 44 cm

I was pretty surprised with his weight. I was told to wait until 6 months to start him on solids and it looked like he'd have a hard time swallowing anyway. Well, he only gained about 8 oz. in almost 2 months! Probably should have tried earlier, but we have started him on rice cereal this week and he's eating really well so hopefully he'll start gaining some weight!

We have been so lucky as to already have great friends in the area.  The times that we've been over have been wonderful! We were eating dinner the other night and Kort was just on the ground and out of no where he started army crawling! I have never seen him do it and he has only done that that one time! Our friends have an 8 month old and we say Kort just needed the motivation because he also just started sitting up on his own after he saw Nathaniel doing it. So we'll see how soon he really starts crawling!

Here's just a little of what Kort has been up to!

-Spitting with his mouth - he literally gets my face all wet

-Sitting up on his own

-Still up on his hands and knees/toes rocking back and forth just waiting to move his arms forward

-Has been saying "ma ma"!!! :)

-Loves being on his feet, standing up, 

and pulling himself up with our help

-Has 2 bottom right teeth (not your standard 2 bottom middle)

-Still takes short half hour naps (or longer if I am holding him)

-Loves being "superman" in the air

-Smiles all.the.time. (unless he's cranky. ha ha)

-Sleeps mostly through the night. Still wakes up around 6:00 am and have to bounce back to sleep

-Still has the bluest eyes :)

Kort is so much fun to have around! Everyone says I'm going to be running around like crazy once he learns to crawl and walk. Actually, they say he's going to go straight to running :) Wish us luck!

sitting milestone and new bed

I know I have a ton to catch up, but just want to post a couple of things. Kort has finally started sitting up on his own! He's still a little wobbly and can't really catch himself very well when he falls to the side, but he's keeping balance for a while. 

He was in the process of saying "ma ma" when I snapped this picture! He's really jabbering a ton which includes the sounds of "mama" :)

Clay also finished our bed...the night before we packed up the truck. Here it is set up in our new place with what little we could find in boxes.

I absolutely LOVE it! I'm so thankful I have such a handy craftsman hubby :)

goodbye seattle

Yep, that's right! Back to Minnesota we go! Clay is temporarily moving to the Energy Group with his company and so we are headed to the middle of no where to work on wind turbines. Actually, I'm quite excited. That red dot is the county that they are being built in, and it's basically like back home! Countryside, small towns, plenty of things to do outside! We'll only be there for some short months, maybe 5 or so, then off to somewhere else. So, hopefully we won't get stuck in those frigid Minnesota winters! Gratefully we'll have movers from the company because we're moving in 2 weeks! AAHH! I'll keep you updated as I'm sure we'll have many great adventures ahead of us!

crazy kort

kort has been so close to crawling it seems! he's constantly on his hands and knees now, just rocking back and forth not quite sure how to make the right motions :) within the last couple days i've noticed he's been getting up on his toes like in a real push-up/plank position! it's so crazy! i am so excited to post this picture, although it's blurry, it's the best i could catch of him so far!

this was a couple weeks ago when he was just starting to get onto his knees. like i said, it's been quite the constant thing now! clay and i help him move his knees and hands in sync (which all he does is laugh!) and it looks like it's paying off as he's kind of going through those motions and scooting forward a little, although it's mostly backwards that he goes :)

happy father's day

it was exactly one year ago that clay officially announced he was going to be a daddy! i couldn't be any happier with how everything has turned out. he really is the best. kort's face just lights up when he sees that daddy has come home to play with him. he gets the biggest smile. i can tell those two are going to cause havoc once kort gets older. i sure love my boys. sundays are so wonderful. 

they love their afternoon naps together.

clay is the best daddy. i can't wait for more to come!

LOVE YOU!!!

my dad is so incredible. i wish i could be as intelligent as he is, 

and talented, and funny, and successful. 

thanks papanawa! 

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i'm so grateful for the men in my life. 

bbq's mean summertime!

memorial day we joined up with some friends and had a bbq at some park that i won't even try to write. something like kobochuk park. ha ha anyway, it was so much fun! it was right on the beach so we enjoyed walking along. kort did pretty good. had some good naps. too bad we didn't take any pictures. 

the next weekend our friends went camping. we decided we weren't ready to take kort camping yet, but we joined up with them saturday night for another bbq.  the dinner was delicious with chicken and all the extras. we made our lovely dutch oven peach cobbler !YUM! it was a lot of fun though and so glad we were able to spend some time with them.

 he's starting to get really good with holding his body up. now if he can only get those knees under him.

 jennifer loves holding him and he loved falling asleep in her arms too!

he fell asleep so great in my arms. not a fight like it normally is. yay!

our future bed

i've been so excited to finally get a headboard and new bed frame! i found this website a long time ago and instantly fell in love with it! and having quite the handy craftsman, i knew that i'd be making a lot of things from it :) we made our changing table for kort from two of her plans combined and now i found this plan for our bed and love love love it! we'll be taking pictures of our progress. we've had to get some extra power tools (clay's early father's day present), but we'll be saving hundreds still - we were lucky enough to get free oak so that's where we're saving the dough!

(this was someone else's that they sent in their final result. 
hopefully ours will look this great!)