Dad's Home!

The best part of Lincoln's day is when Thomas comes home. Linc knows he can't jump on me or be rough with me so when Dad comes home he is in heaven! You can already tell they are best friends and have a completely different bond than a mother and son could ever have. They wrestle every night in some way or another and it hit me tonight that I need to document this. So here are pictures of them playing tonight...

















I love these boys!!! And I'm so excited we're getting another one!!

Quick Story

I keep putting things Lincoln says or does on Facebook but I'm starting to realize they get kind of lost and I forget them so since I use this blog as a "journal" I am going to try to document quick stories on here too.

Last night Linc and I were standing outside and he pointed to the sky and said "moon" and I said, "you're right but where are the stars?" (there weren't any) he looked around for a minute confused and then pointed to my right and said "there it is"... It was a Carl's Jr. sign! Haha

Play Dough!

You may be surprised to hear this but Lincoln's never played with play dough. To be honest I looked up a few different edible play dough recipes a long time ago that I never got the ingredients for (there is a peanut butter one and a jello one floating around the Internet that both sounded good and not too difficult). But needless to say the bigger I got and further into pregnancy I got I realized this was a gift Santa was meant to bring, and it was a huge hit! Thank you to Santa for picking up my slack :)











Wrapping the play dough around his thumb...





And then I got the bright idea to start sculpting the play dough. It started off innocent enough, a smiley face...


And then a turtle...


But this next little guy was almost the death of me! A sad attempt at a football...


The problem is he loved it and was willing to help clean everything up except the football. When I told him it was time for the football to go to sleep he lost it...


And this bitter scowl did not leave his face for a good 15 min...

Playgroup at the Park

We had a few days with some great weather so our playgroup met up at the park in our complex and played on the slide and with chalk. When I found out we were going to the park I turned to Linc and asked if he wanted to go on the slide his eyes got really big, he exaggerated a huge gasp, then said "REALLY?!?!" poor deprived child. Go figure it's now two days later it won't stop snowing.

Homemade Bath Paint

This ones an oldie but a goodie! You make washable bath paint by mixing sensitive shaving cream and food coloring. We've done this activity so many times and it never gets old! It always guarantees me at least an hour of rest! (I do highly recommend "resting" while still watching your child in the bath! You never know, someone might have taken that as a green light for an hour of shut eye or something).

Once there was a Snowman

Thomas and I have been cleaning, moving rooms around, and reorganizing like crazy! We're trying to get everything ready for Baby #2 who is only a month away!! So to keep you entertained today I have a video of Lincoln's new favorite song...please don't be jealous of my amazing voice!

New Year Fondu

To kick off the New Year right our little family had a Fondu party!


This is Lincoln's smile before he knew about the heavenly goodness that would soon enter his mouth...








And here is the real smile of a very satisfied little boy! Happy New Year!!!