Ammon

Hi Lindgrenites!

It's been a busy last few weeks of summer for the Gilberts in Seattle. Let's see, July was busy... Ammon went to San Diego for the Comic-Con for the 3rd year in a row with Grandma Jen coming over to the Gilbert household to help Angela out with the kiddos. The Con was enjoyable as always and Finn and Harper liked having their Grandma around for a few days. Then August hit and started with tragedy as Grandma Rose, who occupied our basement apartment, passed away due to complications of pneumonia. She was 95 and lived a long, good life, but we were still sad to see her go. A few weeks later Angela was laid off from her job due to the company changing their hours of operations and cutting all the hours Angela is available to work. Super lame, but we saw it coming a mile away. So now... Angela is a stay-at-home Mom and is doing a fantastic job so far.

Let's see, what else... We went camping for the first time as a family at Mount St. Helens. Lucky for us, the volcano didn't erupt while we were there. The kids had a blast camping and we were ready to go again immediately afterwards. Too bad we decided that camping was a fun thing for the family to do the last weekend of summer, but what can you do? We also hit up Bigfoot Country while we were there and learned that there are more sightings of Sasquatch in and around the Mount St. Helens area than anywhere else in the country. However, we didn't see him near our camp. Bummer.

Harper is a crawling machine and could be walking at any moment. By crawling, I mean she does this Gorilla walk where she 'walks' using her hands and feet. She gets around really fast that way, and since she's discovered the art of crawling, she's been on the move ever since. She also loves to EAT. Paper, cardboard, baby food, milk, ice cream, whatever... if it's within her sights, she wants to eat it. She's a little crazy when it comes to having a ravenous side, but that's ok. Better to love to eat than to not, right?

Finn is getting excited for his pre-school class to start this year so he can hang out with all of his friends. That said, he's pretty sad his best friend is moving to Boise at the end of the month. Actually, we're all pretty bummed out about that one. I guess there's more incentive to visit Boise now, huh? Finn also loves jumping off couches (or couch to couch), playing with cars and trains, going to Target, and getting toilets stuck around his head. True story. He decided to wear a port-a-pottie toilet as a necklace one day and then we couldn't get it off. Because it pinched his ears, he didn't want it off either, so for almost a full day and a half, he had this toilet on his head. The next day he decided he wanted it off though, and we cut it off with giant gardening sheers. It was pretty darn funny.

Welp, that's it for us! Finn turns 3 next month, which we're pretty excited about, as this year we're taking the festivities to Great Wolf Lodge, which is a water slide park (among other fun things).

Hope all are doing well!

Ammon, Angela, Finn, Harper