ONE YEAR!!!

It has been ONE year since we brought this sweet baby home...

....I can hardly stand it!  I can honestly say that I have truly enjoyed his first year of life.  I have enjoyed every minute of his fun and sweet personality.  He really has been such a friendly and social little guy.  He has more recently become much more feisty and getting into lots of trouble.  He loves to get into anything he shouldn't...especially anything electronic (much to Dan's dislike).  He has recently discovered that he has a talent for screaming and works on perfecting this new talent all the time.  Also, a new trait that is driving us crazy!  So, our sweet baby boy has grown up and grown crazy!  But, we still love him!  He still has a super sweet toothless smile (well, there are now two little teeth barely poking out the bottom) that lights us up!  I love this big one year old!!!  Here are some pictures from his birthday!

We had a party and invited all of Lincoln's biggest fans...he has a lot!

All of his friends helped him open his presents!

And he enjoyed a cupcake!

My friend Jen (she's amazing!) came over in the morning and did a little photoshoot with Linc.  He would NOT stay put more than 1 second...that is until we gave him a cupcake...he loved that!

Happy Birthday Linky-doo...we sure do love you!!!

We have a FIRST!!!

Carson lost his FIRST tooth today....yippeee!!!!  He was so excited back in November when he realized one of his teeth was a smidge wiggly.  After further inspection by me, I realized that his adult tooth was actually already coming in behind his baby tooth.  So, TWO months later we finally got that tooth out!  He did not want us to pull it out and wouldn't do it himself so it was just hanging by a thread.  Today after dinner I asked him if I could see how wiggly it was today and before he knew it I popped it out.  He was soo excited that it came out that he wanted to call his grandparents to tell them all about it.  Then he put it in his monster tooth fairy pillow.  He can't wait for her to bring him money...I hope he's happy with $1! 

Sorry the pictures are a bit bloody, this is right after we pulled it out.

Holidays 2011

We enjoyed another wonderful Holiday Season.  Here are a few of the things we did.

Brynlee had her preschool Holiday Program.  She had memorized her part and was ready to go...until the night before when she threw up!  The next day was the rehearsal and she came home early from it, but her teacher said to bring her later if she was feeling better.  She continued to throw up all afternoon, but for some reason we STILL took her to the program that night.  I don't know why!!!  She was excited to do it and I must admit I was really excited to see her in the program!  I was praying the whole time that she would just make it through and not throw up!!  I was sooo nervous!  She did great...and she didn't throw up...yeah!!! 

We had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner with Eric and Alison and their 3 kids and with Ken and Roxie and their two boys.  We had the traditional cheese and crackers and appetizers.  It's always fun to have family close to share the holidays with.

Christmas day was wonderful!  The kids are at a great age and really get in to it.  They got more than enough presents and were excited to play with all of them.  We did go later in the afternoon to church, which was a nice way to think of the true meaning of Christmas. 

 Carson was soooo excited to get a Spy Car!!!

 And Brynlee loved her "Christmas Doggie".

 Lincoln even opened lots of gifts!

We had lots of friends over to ring in the New Year and it was great!!  We even had fireworks!  Here's to a great 2012!!!



ELEVEN months!!

I seriously can't take this any longer!  This baby is almost ONE!  Why does the time fly by so fast!?  Our little Lincoln is such a sweet baby and we love him to PIECES!!!  This is what I can tell you about my Linky-doo at eleven months:

*He crawls fast! 

*He stands up and cruises on everything...even your legs if your just standing there!

*He goes up and down stairs really well.

*He is starting to "talk" more with cute little baby sounds.  mamama, dadada, blah, blah, blah.

*He LOVES it when you get down on the floor with him.  He immediately smiles and crawls over to you and climbs all over you.  He loves climbing all over his family!

*He loves to squawk and then have Carson and Bryn imitate him.  He'll repeat this forever!

*He still doesn't have ANY teeth!  Maybe he'll walk before he gets his first tooth...we'll see!

*He can eat whatever, but doesn't necessarily like everything.

*He loves to play in the kitchen cabinets, which led to some cabinet locks put on, except for a few kid-friendly ones.

*He is soo happy!!!

And here he is at his eleven month photo shoot on the couch!

  This is what it really looks like when we're trying to take pictures of the kids :)

And of course, the other kiddos at eleven months:

Carson

Brynlee