my rollie pollie

This happened in a matter of minutes.

Lincoln is so active and mobile now that he can roll.

Take a look on what he did.

He then preceded to scoot his little way under the ottoman. 

I love this boy

4 months already

See this big guy?

Ya, my Lincolnator just turned 4 months

I cannot believe it!

He had his 4 month check up last Friday

Here are his stats:

Date: 1-14-11

Age: 4 Months

Length: 26.2 inches  90%

Weight: 15 pounds 12 oz  75%

Head Circ: 41.7 cm  25%

His stats make him sound not so proportionate-

but he looks proportionate.

Lincoln was lot happy with his shots this time around. He cried and cried and cried. I think he was more upset that a stranger was holding him than the shots - but nevertheless, he hated it.

He has been so much fun lately

 

Here are things he loves. . .

Bath time

His toys

bouncing his way off his bouncer

His  hands in his mouth

trying to get anything and EVERYTHING in his mouth

holding his toes

Getting dressed

Getting his diaper changed

He loves talking

and smiling!

This boy is ALL smiles

loves story time

daddy time

Mommy time

His also has new tricks like . . .

Rolling over from his tummy to back

and back to tummy

(i'm so sad, the video wont load!)

sitting up

He is starting to. . .

eat rice cereal

(he still isn't too sure about it)

hold his own bottle

He doesn't like. . .

Juice

or having his legs in his jammies

or spitting up

Here are a few more things about Lincoln - 

He is still in size one diapers

He still drinks his similac sensitive

He'll drink 4 ounces every 3 hours

but i'm trying to get him to eat every 4 hours

he ISN'T sleeping through the night anymore.

AGH!

He goes to bed at about 9 

wakes up around midnight

then at 2 AM

then at 4AM

then at 5:30AM

then sleeps til 9 or 9:30

SERIOUSLY! He is sleeping worst than when he was a new born.

So, we are trying a new schedule out to see if we can get him to sleep longer.

We stopped feeding him during the night and we are just giving him his binki. Hopefully he'll be trained to sleep through the night soon.

He loves to fall asleep with his binki

He only really cries when he is tired or hungry

If he can't see mom or dad he'll start screaming(not crying.

If he notices that somebody else is holding him besides mommy or daddy, 

he'll usually start screaming as well.

He takes 3, 45 minute naps each day

(Any ideas on how to get him to nap longer?!)

If I'm feeding him and holding his bottle, he loves to hold onto my finger

He loves cuddle time with mommy

When he gets really really tired, he gets delusional and starts laughing and laughing.

Falls asleep within seconds when he's in the car

He still loves blankets by his head, especially to sleep.

Loves dancing on my lap

Usually has 2 messy diapers a day.

Loves talking/grunting

Hates 1:00 church

and hates loud, sudden noises.

I love my little man so much!

I love being able to stay home and spend all my time with him.

Well, except when I have to go to class.

BOO

The Christmas Post

I know this is long over due - but it's better late than never! 

We had such a great Christmas this year! It was so fun celebrating Lincoln's first Christmas. I know he won't remember it, but I know I will. I had so much fun playing Santa! We started our own family traditions that I know we'll keep for years.

I have SO many pictures from our Christmas - so here is the picture overload!

On the 23rd of December, I started this tradition a few years ago of making homemade, from scratch sugar cookies. Love love love them! Although I forgot that I borrow my mother in laws Christmas cookies cutters last year, so this year we only did Star cookies because that was the only 'Christmas' one I had.

 

Lincoln was such a good helper, sitting in his bouncer enjoying listening to Christmas music with me. I love my little buddy.

On Christmas eve day we got together with my family in the early afternoon. We first went to eat at Red Robin, one of our favorite family restaurants. Then afterward we went and saw True Grit. Loved it! It was such a great movie! Although, I was missing my Lincoln the whole time! We left him with my in laws. It was the second time we've left him alone with someone and boy - i missed him!

This is a picture of James. He loves food and we were all finished so we got up to leave, but James wanted to pretty much finish everyone's meal. We had a great laugh.

 

After the movie we headed to the Wright's for Christmas Eve Pot Luck Dinner. It was a wonderful evening spending it with family. (Unfortunately I don't have any pictures)

Christmas Day was so fun! I barely slept that night in anticipation for Christmas Morning with Lincoln. 

I woke up and started making some breakfast while James watched the Nativity.  Once Lincoln woke up, Lincoln decided to join Daddy.

Once we finished breakfast it was CHRISTMAS TIME! We first gathered around the tree for a Christmas photo.

 

Then it was time for stockings! Santa came and put lots of candy in our stockings! Santa put lots of James' favorite treats in his stocking, aviator sun glasses in mine and a book in Lincolns. Did I mention lots and lots of candy?! :)

After stockings we headed to the tree to open presents! Lincoln loved the wrapping paper! We tried to have him grab the paper to actually open his gifts but he just liked the paper after the fact. Lincoln got SPOILED! He got 6 new books from Santa, 2 new outfits from mom and dad, 2 outfits and lots of toys from my parents and a cute stuffed animal for his Great Grandparents Mitchell.  James got a studly looking shirt, and I got a beautiful blouse and a fun sweater. My parents gave us some yummy goodies along with some money. They also gave us lots of meat! Yes meat - chicken, stakes, ribs etc. It's so nice having that stocked up in our freezer!  And my wonder in laws gave us some money as well, along with an amazing electric blanket. Holy hannah I use it daily!

 

 Some of Lincoln's goodies!

Lincoln also got this sweet book from his Grandma Wright. For each of the grandkids she scrapbooks 2 pages and hand writes a letter to the kids.  It was so sweet to hear her sweet words to Lincoln. We will be looking forward to all her scrapbook pages and letters for many many years.

After we opened all the presents, we got ready and headed to the Wrights. Well, this is what Lincoln did while James and I got ready. Opening presents gets tiring!

 

When we got to the Wrights we enjoyed playing with the family. John and his family got remote control helicopters that the boys played for a long time - which was fun to watch. David got the kenect so there was a lot of dancing going on! 

Lincoln had a fun time playing this his Uncle Dave and Dan. They had so much fun playing together. They were getting a kick out of Lincoln laughing at them.

 

After the Wright's we headed to my house to hang with the family and have our traditional Christmas Dinner. My mom does such a great job every year! I love Christmas with the family! This year my mom had invited both my grandparents and my Uncles Joe and his cute family. It was a full house but it so so much fun!!

It's a tradition to have these English 'poppers' on our plates. They are so fun to pop! And of course we all had to wear our crowns for the night!

 

 my mom's beautiful trees!

After dinner we enjoyed games, talking, dance dance, a movie and just hung out. Christmas was seriously the best!

Lincoln loves Uncles Nick! They played a lot that night!

 My hot, good lookin' Husband

Pots and his ankle he just had surgery on

Kel and Nick

Did I forget all the food we ate that night!

 

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I had to post my little Lincoln in his cute Tommy Hilfiger out fit. Love this boy!

Now that I FINALLY have Christmas posted - get ready for a lot more posts!!