Lincoln is 8 months

Lincoln is already 8 and a half months old now.

Like everyone says - I cannot believe how fast he has grown up.

He is such a firecracker of a boy

He is always on the move and is never sitting still.

Here are pictures galore of the Lincolnater at 8 months!

First time sitting in a shopping cart

Standing at the backdoor wishing he was outside with Daddy

Look! no hands!

Linc loves his walker!

He loves pulling out all the DVDs

and of courses loves to play with mommy's curtains

"humm what can I find in this drawer?!"

SO BIG!

ut oh!

This is how Lincoln sits in his carseat. He holds on for dear life. haha

Lincoln is such an amazing, good boy.

He naps so well. 2, 2hour naps a day and then a 45 minute nap.

He goes to bed at 7:30 and wakes up around 7:30 or 8am.

He does however, still wake up once at night - but we are working on him sleeping through the night.

He hardly EVER cries! He only fusses when he is tired or hungry. But we are usually on top of feeding him and we put him to bed right when the time is right that we really never really hear him cry :)

He is such an independent little guy. He loves playing with his toys and is content playing in his crib. He likes it when somebody is in the room with him and if he notices he is alone, he'll crawl around the house looking for someone :)

He has been crawling since he was 6 and a half months old. And the week he started crawling, he started pulling himself up and standing.

He can now stand on he own, and walk using support of the furniture or his walker. This guy l.o.v.e.s. to be moving!

He is such a little drooler. He has been since day one. His shirt is soaked within the first few hours of him being awake. He goes through many shirts and bibs each day :)

He LOVES being outside. Whenever he hears or sees one of the doors open, he crawls as fast as he can trying to escape. I can't wait for the summer weather to get here so we can actually go outside.

Lincoln loves talking. He can say dadadada (although he still doesn't associate it with 'daddy' yet - thank goodness, cuz I want him to say mamma first!!) He also loves to say lalalala. Sometimes he will have such a serious conversation with himself. You can tell he is concentrating so much.

He still only has his 2 bottom teeth in. He has a 3rd one ready to cut through any day now (although i've been saying that for months now - this tooth just wont cut!)

He is not a cuddler. Although, if you give him a toy to play with and his binky and his blanket, he sometimes will sit on your lap. I do cherish those moments when he is my cuddle bunny.

He has a very fast metabolism. We have to feed him about every 2 to 3 hours so that he can stay full throughout the night. (we figured that was the problem he was waking up every hour at night) He is still getting the hang of table foods.  He loves gramcrackers, his sippy cup, stars, his baby food mixed with rice cereal and of course his formula.  He will have a full setting of food and still want a bottle after words.  This boy can eat like his daddy - that's for sure.

Lincoln loves to play with the dish towels that hang on the oven. Everytime I hang them up, he crawls to them and pulls them off :)

He loves to fridge and freezer. When every I open it, he bolts to it and tries to climb inside.

He loves playing in the food cabinet.

He loves playing with my hair brush and all my shoes and loves to pull my clothes off their hangers.

He is a master at climbing up the stairs

He is soo friendly and is not stranger shy.  He will crawl to anyone, and play with anyone. At church he'll escape from us and crawl across the isle and sit with the families over there. I must say, it is nice being able to sit and actually listen what's being said in sacrament meeting:)

He is such a happy baby and always has a smile on his face.  People honestly stop me and ask me all.the.time. if he is always that happy and if he always has a smile on his face. My answer - yes! I am so, extremely lucky!

I can't believe my little man is going to be ONE in just a few months.

His party is already in the works :)

St. George

Well - I am so behind so here I go - trying to start up blogging again.


During my week break from school in April, we headed down to St. George.

Boy is was lovely!

We met up with Taylor and Lisa and Thomas and Sydney while we were there.

We had such a great time.

Lincoln did so good! 

I was worried about the car ride and trying to keep him on his schedule while we were down there but Lincoln did great the whole time!

We were luckily enough to stay at Lisa's parents house for a few days and then we stayed at Sydney's parent's house. We were truly blessed.

Here is the picture overload!

Me and Lincoln on the ride down.

Playing at the park. The weather was SO nice the whole time! :)


After the park we went rock climbing. James loves to climb. It was really fun getting to watch him do it. I so wanted to try rock climbing, but lincoln started get fussy because it was way past his bed time so I took him back so he could go to bed. I'll for sure try it next time.

The following morning we went and played tennis. Well, everyone played and I watched the babies :)

Rock and Lincoln are SOOO cute!

Lincoln loved being outside every chance we got

We then took Lincoln swimming for the first time.

he.loved.it!

He loved splashing and kicking.

Oh, and he loved wearing his cute new swimsuit :)

(sorry there are a lot of pictures of him swimming. give me a break - it was his first time!!)

 

 

The rest of our trip we just relaxed and hungout
It was so nice and we enjoyed every second of it!

Lincoln was being so good the whole entire time :)

Easter 2011

I have some much to blog about that I don't even know where to start.

So i'll skip what our little family did a few months ago and go straight to Easter.

We had such a great Easter!

It was extra special because it was Lincoln's first Easter.

A few weeks before Easter, Lincoln had his first Easter Egg hunt with our ward.

Unfortunatliy I had to Math final -

(Which I passed - goodbye math for ever!)

But James was able to take him.

I kept telling James how important it was that he took pictures of Lincoln because I had to have Lincoln's FIRST Easter Egg hunt Documented. 

So - here are the pictures.  If you know my hubby - you know how funny these pictures are.

It makes me laugh just thinking about James positioning Lincoln in all these pictures. haha

We also had a great Easter party at my parents house.

The kids had a great little Easter Egg hunt. 

Lincoln loved his Easter bag more than the eggs.

After the kids hunt, my mom put on a hunt for the "big kids"

IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!

So did a egg scavenger hunt around Centerville and Bountiful.

And me and James won! woohoo! Champs 2 years in a row!

Easter Morning was fun at our house.

I woke up to the Baskets missing.  The "male" Easter bunny hid them. That is one tradition I am not used to! But luckily there aren't  a lot of hiding spots in our house so they were easy to find.

I made yummy eggs on toast. 

My family Tradition.

James hates eggs on toast. 

Needless to say, I ate a lot of it!

Then we headed to church!

 This was James' attempt to get a picture of me and Lincoln. eh, at least you can see his cute easter outfit!

 Linc already eating his tie

Our little family :)

quick family update

I have SO much to blog about! So much has happened (okay not really) but I have tons of pictures I want to post - BUT I have to purchase more storage for the blog and I haven't gotten around to it. So just you wait - because once I do - there will be so many posts you won't know what to do with yourself!

But in case you were wondering, here is a quick update on our little family:


Lincoln is crawling (as of the first week of April), pulling himself up on EVERYTHING, getting into EVERYTHING and thinks he knows how to walk. (he obviously doesn't - he has the bruises to prove it) but he loves to try to stand by himself - that little dare devil.

Lincoln is SO much fun! He has the greatest little personality. He isn't afraid of strangers. He'll crawl to anyone. He loves to smile and always has a smile on his face. He is such a great little boy and we are truly blessed to have him in our family.

James is still working hard to Ameriaprise Financial and loving it. His latest hobby/interest in GOLF. He can't seem to get enough of it! He's in the process of building a deck in our back yard which is starting to look awesome! James can't wait for Summer to enjoy boating season, racing, golf and tennis.

I am busy being a house wife/student. I finished up my semester last week. I am happy to announce I passed both of my Statistics classes! I am 100% done with math - i NEVER have to take math EVER again! (for those of you who know me - this is BIG accomplishment - almost as big as graduating :) ) I start my next semester next week, on May 9th. I have a terrible schedule of MWF 9-3. Which means lots of babysitters for Lincoln. I can't wait to graduate. I have one more year left and i'm just trying my hardest to get done as fast as I can.

Tomorrow we are heading down to St. George for a few days! I AM SO EXCITED! It will be so nice to get away before I start school again. I hope Lincoln enjoys the drive - it's our first road trip/trip as a family.

Well - that's all for now. Like I said - pictures will be coming shortly!