Keldyn's Birthday!

Keldyn is turning 8 on Saturday.  I am going to take this time to be like most moms and talk about him a little ....just because I can.  Keldyn was not our original name, we had several picked out but really liked Caden, so forever it was Caden Reece.  Well, if you follow Stacy's blog, you know that her 2nd boy, who just celebrated a birthday is named Caden as well.  We didn't want there to be too many Caden's running around so we played with some more names.  David liked the name Kelvin, but i did not. So like what we've done with all of our kiddos names is we played with the ending and wholah! Keldyn it is! And it fits him to a tee!  Keldyn was our flood baby.  The summer before he was born, David and I both worked the Camp Bandina Church Camp. This was July so i was 6-7 months prego.  Well, it started raining, and it rained and rained and rained and it didn't stop. The river that you cross to get to camp rose 50 feet.  Trialer houses floated down the river and you could hear it roaring past the camp site from the top of the hill.  I was scared and more than ready to get out of there (plus i had a 1.5 yr old at my parents, not with me so that made it worse).  Well, we ended up walking two miles through pastures and woods to catch school buses that took all of us campers to a local church. Except someone felt bad for me and they let us crash at their house, loaned us thier car the next day to go pick up Bryson and then offered to let us stay there again.  We were blessed!  Once school started, i had been re-assigned to junior high volleyball and it was nothing for me to be out there playing with the girls diving around digging up volleyballs (that may be why Keldyn is daring.) Also i went skiing for the first time ever in my life while prego with him.  The boy is fearless! He climbs any and everything he can get a small grasp on.  He's not big but boy is he tough!!A little scary bc i think one day he's really going to get hurt and not know it!  He is FUNNY! and smart and very fast! He's shy at times but warms up rather quickly. He is 100% boy, he likes animals and dirt and video games and superheroes and all that boy stuff; but he also loves his brother and his sister to the ends of the earth.  HE wouldn't tell you that but he does.  Every night before bed he jumps on Bryson and tells him goodnight.  If Rielyn is in danger of being hurt, he's the first one there to save her.  He is really good with babies and is going to make an awesome dad one day!  Oh, and for his birthday, we asked him what he wanted to do.  His response, go to the Olive Garden with the family.  Not a party, not ChuckECheese ,but Olive Garden.  I asked him if he was turning 30:???   Keldyn, i love you and hope you have a fantastic 8th birthday!