Recent pictures

Christmas preparations-We had issues getting a tree this year. We were going to go the Monday after Thanksgiving and then it was raining a bit and we decided not to which wasn't the best idea. So we went two days later and it was freezing. TC had a coupon at Lowe's and we decided to use that. Well he went to borrow a friend's truck while I drove straight to Lowe's with the kids after Savanna's gymnastics class. Well his phone was dead and I wasn't able to get a hold of him to tell him where the key was hidden for our friends' truck since they weren't home. So he drove home plugged his phone in and called me. We went in and picked a tree while we waited for him and I guess it wasn't tall enough and it stopped taking water three days after we got it and now is completely dead. Sad. Then the next day we were going to decorate the tree right after TC got home from work and we started because he was running late. Then he was running over a half an hour late and I was getting worried until he called me saying his car had died (its an electric car) and his phone was dead so he ran 15 blocks to the temple to call me. Goodness!!

Festival of Trees

Fun at home

Daddy dressed up as Santa for caroling!! This was so fun. My friend, Andrea, had this Santa suit and asked if TC would dress up in it and we could go caroling. The kids loved it!

TC trying to distract Savanna with his phone while he tried to get her two loose teeth out. Her permanent teeth are coming in and the dentist said we'll have to pull them out that they won't come out on their own. Well Savanna was absolutely hysterical about it so we haven't tried in a couple days. We may have to take her to the dentist to do it.

Linnea update-10 months

Linnea is now 10 months!!! She is growing up way too fast!

At 10 months Linnea:

• Crawls like crazy, walks along furniture, pulls up to a standing position, and can go up the stairs
• Loves to chase Savanna and Clark
• Loves food
• Says hi, ma ma, da da, boo, up, down, yuck, and snap
• Loves music and dancing
• Loves water bottles and anything electronic
•  Loves her mama and has some separation anxiety
• Loves to play with shoes
• Still puts everything in her mouth
• Loves to wave hi and clap
• Loves to get ornaments off the Christmas tree
• Walks on her own with a walker

Recent Kid Quotes

Savanna

• (When walking into Chick-fil-a) "Mom Logan' s here! Logan's here!" (Savanna seems to have a crush on Logan) Then her and Clark went to play on the playground because Logan was there and Savanna came out sad a few minutes later "Logan left right when we got there." I explained that it wasn't because of her but just probably because he needed to go home. Sweet girl!
• Savanna:"Mommy today in school we learned about family and partners." Me:"Partners?" Savanna:"Yes like when two different sets of numbers add up to the same thing that's called partners." Me: "Oh I get it."
• (Handing Linnea to my cousin, Sarah, at Thanksgiving) "Here Sarah you're a Perry now."
• "Clark one day you will get married and have babies. But you need to marry someone who does not live in this house."
• " We need to be sneaky sneaky sneaky!" (When we were bringing presents to neighbors and ringing the doorbell and running away.)
• "Giving is my favorite part of Christmas!"
• "I feel good in my heart!"
• "Mommy guess how the kids go in William's family? William." (William's an only child.)
• (After school very excited) "Mommy there's a gingerbread man and he ran away! For real Mom. For real."

Clark

• "Mommy I lost my head yesterday but I got it back."
• (To some kids in Savanna's class while I was volunteering.) I kissed his head and a student asked  "You love him huh?" I said "Yes he's my son." Then Clark said "They asked Heavenly Father and Jesus for me."
• (While walking to a neighbor's house and seeing another neighbor putting up Christmas lights) "Why are you putting up your Christmas lights? It's turkey time."
• (In his prayers) "Please bless Santa. Please bless him to bring us presents."
• (While my brother was reading him Snow White and got to the part where the Prince was going to kiss Snow White) "And the prince punched Snow White right in the face."
• "Is the plane going to blast off?"
• (Looking out the window of the plane) "Mommy look a rainbow!"
• "My Uncle Spenser's crazy."
• "My Uncle Spenser can sleep anywhere-on the floor,in a chair,. He can sleep anywhere!"

Thanksgiving trip to Florida

So we had a really fun trip to Florida for Thanksgiving. We went up to my Grandpa's farm and it was so much fun to be with my family some of who I don't get to see very often! The only down side was the flight home which I explained in more detail on facebook so I won't repeat it. The kids loved running around the farm, petting the horse, Tarvan, going on walks around the farm, doing an obstacle course that my brother, Spenser, set up and is now tradition, roasting smores,and enjoying turkey. We had a wonderful time. I'm so glad we were able to go. Here are some fun pictures! I'm so busy I don't have time to explain who everyone is.

Linnea's 9 month stats

I just realized when I was going to post about Thanksgiving that I never put up Linnea's 9 month stats on here. So here they are.




Weight: 23 pounds 4 ounces-97%
Height: 30.5 inches-Off the charts
Head circumference: 17.8 inches-90%


Love our Linnea!