Back Home from Iowa

Aunt Lindsey and Uncle Derek

Grandma De Haan

Aunt Annaleyza

Scott and Nicole Kallemeyn. Scott got in a biking accident but thank the Lord he was o.k. except the face injuries. We are praying for you Scott!

Great Grandma Vermeer

Kristi and Bret Van Wyk

Matthew, Cayden, Seth and Matthew Steensma

With Great Grandpa and Grandma Van Essen

With Great Grandpa and Grandma De Yager

Well, I have been really slacking on updating our blog since Iowa. We have already been home for a week but it has seemed to go really fast. We had a wonderful time in Iowa visiting many family and friends. It is always good to catch up with everyone! The rest of our time was spent mainly with family. A lot of hanging out, playing Rook (Lindsey, we will get the boys next time!), celebrating the Fourth of July, and taking family pictures. We were able to get Cayden's 6 month pictures done as well as our first professional family picture. They turned out great! You can check them out on our smugmug. We also took family pictures with Matthew's entire family so I am excited to see those pictures as well. Cayden had a great time cruising around Grandpa and Grandma De Haan's house with his new mastered skill of crawling. Man! I am exhausted just thinking about it. So after a week of being home we are starting to get the schedule down again as well as introducing new foods to Cayden's diet. So far he only likes the rice cereal and sweet potatoes and even sometimes won't eat those. We will figure it out. Cayden had his 6 month doctors appointment today including his vaccinations. He cried pretty hard when they stuck him with the needle but recovered the rest of the day with a lot of down time and napping! He weighed 16.3 pounds was 27 inches and had a head circumference of 17.01 inches. So all looks good!

Cayden in his hospital gown (I never knew they made mini ones, so cute!)

The rest of the week we will try to stay cool as well as continuing to catch up with friends around here. Matthew has started his internship and continues to work in the library on his days off from the internship. His internship is at Pasadena Mental Health Center. At this site he will be seeing five or more clients at a time all who have some type of mental illness. It should be interesting for him! Check out our smugmug for all the pictures plus some bonus pictures of us playing Dance Dance Revolution, pretty funny!