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I've been trying to get a good enough video of Kort crawling and this is all you're going to get for a while ;) ha ha If you look closely, you can see 4 different types of crawling. 

1. on his hands and knees.

2. hands, one knee, and one foot. 

3. hands and feet

4. army style

(the little musical you hear is a card that our friends gave us that kort just lights up every time we play it for him. sorry if it's inappropriate for your ears;) 
he is getting into everything now! we tried putting an extra shower curtain rod with a blanket over it to block off our kitchen entrance (it's bigger than a door entry) but after a week of trying to get things figured out, he crawled through the blanket. we're thinking he's going to be walking, or taking a couple of steps, before we move out of this place in a couple of months. he's pulling himself up onto anything even if it's stable or not, which has caused some falls :( i'm catching random places of him doing that and i'll post pictures here soon.

Mower County Fair

Clay had fun editing the tire photo and it's become one of my favorites!


We only made it to the fair for a couple of hours before Kort started getting grumpy, but we had fun playing around on the tractors taking pictures, obviously.


Our fair food: fried cheese curds (aka mozzarella sticks), fried s'mores, and ribs on a stick (our favorite!).
I'm glad I at least made it to a fair this year, in hopes to make up for the years missed at the Cassia County Fair, in which I will be missing the maple bars, dutch oven, scones, commercial building, and everything else :) ha ha Hope all you Cassians have a blast this week!

p.s. It's also my sister's 10 year High School reunion!! Ahh! Looks like fun :) Watch for them at the rodeo!

washington to minnesota

time here in our new place has already been going by fast! i am behind on posting about our driving adventure to get here. not many pictures taken, but i'll just sum up the trip.

we woke up early the 5th of july thinking we would get out on the road by 1:00. well, you can never underestimate all the odds and ends that you have and trying to get it packed. luckily, we had some help from the missionaries and some friends from church help pack the truck. that part didn't take too long. however, our landlord is a clean freak and we wanted every penny of our deposit back so we were cleaning everything. we really only had the downstairs to clean (the living room, 1/2 bath, and kitchen). but that dang kitchen....it was already 3:00 and we set a goal to leave by 5:00 now. out of the blue our friend stops by after work to say good-bye if we were still there. she was an angel! she helped clean the kitchen and then her husband stopped by also (who had been helping clay all morning long) and we finally got everything cleaned and left the place to get on the road at 6:30. we can't thank everyone enough who helped us move! well, we got to a place that was 2 hours away, 4 hours later, thanks to traffic so we found a hotel and got some sleep. the one thing that was great is that kort slept through the night!!! ok, moving on to make this short. 

day 1 - stayed in ellensburg, wa.

day 2 - on the road through coeur d'alene, id, bozeman, mt and stayed just outside butte, mt? i forget. 

 the picture above looked so much better in real life. the sun rays were just spectacular with this sunset!

and clay decided to give kort some beef jerky to use instead of his teething ring. he sure did love that stuff and got super mad when he'd lose it.

 day 3 - got a late start but got through montana, wyoming, and got to rapid city, sd. we got there early enough to make a trip to mount rushmore!!!

 (washington, jefferson, roosevelt, lincoln - sadly, i didn't know the 2 middle ones until i read the info)

 all the state flags with the lit mount rushmore! it was awesome!

 the badlands! you would have never expected to see this with all the flat, prairie land around you.

 day 4 - exit south dakota, enter minnesota! these turbines are everywhere! guess we can expect lots of wind :)

our lovely cabin in the truck. we definitely got a diesel truck this time. we got a gas guzzler with our move to washington and died/overheated on every hill/pass going 10 mph. i don't think we hit lower than 40 with this thing through the hills! 

i just hope we never have to move like this again :S we will hire packers and movers if i have anything to do with it ;) a short plane ride here would have satisfied me enough instead of 1600 miles driving.

kort's adventure

ok. clay had too much fun putting this together. we've both put it on our facebook, but i had to put it on here :)

new entertainment

This was the first time I put this toy on something other than carpet and it just dawned on me that there are wheels on it for a purpose...so did Kort. Enjoy :)

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 :)