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\"I just turned him over and checked him really well to make sure there was nothing wrong with him,\" said Kale Buchholtz. \"He had been crying, but as soon as I got him in my hands, he was laughing as I was turning him.\"

Cannon escaped the incident without a scratch, according to the Buchholtzes, who said he only had to be washed clean of debris from the fallen ceiling.

The family of three quickly evacuated the house and drove to a family member's nearby home. When Kale Buchholtz returned that night, he found the weight of the tree had destroyed nearly the entire house, aside from Cannon's crib.

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PHOTO: A tree fell through the roof of Kale and Courtney Buchholtz's Louisiana home, landing in the room of their 5-month old son.
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\"It was just kind of like a little bubble around him,\" he said. \"The hallway on one side of his room was where most of the tree was, and around his crib it was just wood and sheetrock and everything else.\"

When Courtney Buchholtz re-watched the footage of the tree falling, as captured by the baby monitor app on her phone, she described it as being like there was a \"shield\" protecting Cannon.

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PHOTO: Kale and Courtney Buchholtz's 5-month-old son Cannon is pictured here.
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She said she immediately thought of her late son Kasen, who died in 2016, one month after he was born prematurely.

\"We always say that he’s watching over his little brother, so my immediate thought was that Kasen was protecting his brother and keeping him safe,\" she said. \"Losing one child and the thought of anything happening to another child is gut-wrenching.\"

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PHOTO: Kale and Courtney Buchholtz hold their 5-month-old son Cannon.
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The Buchholtzes, who had to rebuild after water flooded their home in 2016, are now trying to salvage whatever they can from their home and prepare to rebuild again.

\"It’s been a pain but, you know what, we can deal with that. We’ll clean up a mess any day,\" said Courtney Buchholtz, adding, \"It could have been so much worse.\"

\"It makes you realize a house is just a house and the material things can be replaced,\" said Kale Buchholtz. \"Family is what matters.\"

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