Lincoln is 14 months!

Lincoln was 14 months old on the 20th. He is such a BOY!!! It is so crazy the difference between he and Hannah on so many levels, particularly when it comes to getting into everything, being loud, and not sitting still for long (especially in church). I am loving every minute of it though. Having a little boy is a load of fun!


A few things I absolute love about Lincoln:

***His laugh. I could listen to it all day!
***How he goes around calling my name all the time, "Mamma Mamma!" It's like he's saying, "Where are you? Do you see me?"
***When he does "the cheese." This is something his Daddy taught him I think. You can ask him to give you "the cheese" and he'll grit his teeth together and smile so hard at you that he shakes!
***That he can give you "the rock"--another thing his Daddy taught him. He makes a fist, sticks his hand out, and hits fists with you. LOVE THIS!
***How he says "Num Num Num" and licks his lips when he sees his food that I'm getting ready for him.
***How he gets excited when I sing to him and seems to enjoy it. He loves the song "God Made the Big Round Sun." I love seeing him try to do the motions.
***How he loves to give people love, especially other babies. He will lay his head down on them and say "Awwww." Such a sweetie!
***How he gets really excited when I turn on the TV. He looks very intently and says what sounds like "Wow!" really loud, over and over.


I could go on and on. Here are a few other things about Lincoln this month.


**He is learning some animal sounds. He knows what the chicken, horse, lion, cow, and sheep say.
** He LOVES his pacy still. I am totally dreading having to get rid of it one day. I'm not really sure when that will be. :)
**He loves to have Cheetos Puffs at lunch. Some of his other favorite foods are grapes, hard-boiled eggs, french fries, and bread. He is such a good eater!
**He is saying more words these days. A few new words he can say are water, Dora, teeth, nose, and Pappaw. He is just not very clear in his speech, but I can understand him. He tries really hard to say things I ask him to repeat.
**I am still nursing twice a day. I hope to have him completely weaned in a couple of weeks.
** Lincoln can point to your/his eyes, nose, teeth, ears, tummy, and toes. He loves to try to stick his finger in your nose.
**Some of his favorite toys are, of course, anything of Hannah's that is in her room. He loves to go back to her room. He loves her Dora dominoes, her vacuum, her hats, and her bows in the bathroom.
**He constantly gets in trouble for getting in the trash and mommy's make-up drawer.
**He loves to drag out things in the kitchen cabinets, try to take the DVD's out of their cases, yank electrical cords out of the wall, run his fingers down the screen on the fireplace, and rip out pages from our photo albums.


YES, I am a VERY busy woman!!!!!

BLOG MAKE-OVER!

Well, I've worked for two days on completely making over my blog, and I am really excited about it how it came out! It was hard work, but I think it looks so cool! I actually created the header all by myself, but I have to thank my awesome, programming husband because he figured out how to change all the background colors. Now that it is midnight, maybe I will rest in peace!!! :)

Dry all night!!!

So, I am SUPER proud of my Hannah! Sunday night she asked if she could wear her panties to bed. She has been wearing a diaper. We decided to let her and see how it went. She has already mastered staying dry in her panties during naptime, so this was the last step left in being totally potty trained. Monday morning she woke up dry!!! Tuesday morning she woke up dry!!!! We may be on a roll!!! Yippee!!!

Easter

On Saturday we went to the Eggtravaganza at the church building. It was really neat. They had different centers to help the kids learn a little about the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Here's Hannah and Ethan decorating their sacks.

The kids got to get a little taste of communion. Now Lincoln will REALLY try to get the crackers during church!

Hannah hammering a nail in the cross.

Here she is rolling the stone away.

Hannah was so excited. She FINALLY got to use scissors for the first time. She did pretty well. She didn't care about cutting her hand print out. She just wanted to cut.

Of course, there was an Easter egg hunt at the Eggstravaganza. Lincoln really surprised me. Once we showed him what to do, he went at it putting eggs into his basket. It was the cutest thing.

Hannah was an old pro.

On Sunday, the Easter bunny brought the kids lots of goodies.

Wye Mountain!

Yesterday we went to Wye Mountain. It was absolutely beautiful and such a great place to take pictures of the kids. This year I had two mobile kids to try to keep up with. I think I was more laid back this year. I knew it would be hard to try to get the kids to cooperate too much, so I got what pictures I could and then tried to enjoy the time there. I think I got some pretty good pictures.


Lincoln was really cute. He fell down quite a bit, but must have had a blast. His little face was beat red by the time we were done. It was a beautiful, warm day--perfect actually. Hannah enjoyed blowing big bubbles with Kenzie and talking and getting her picture made with Benson.

Fun times!!!!

Old Friends and Easter Egg Dyeing

Last night we were blessed to have Kris' buddy, Sean, and his wife, Susan, stay with us. They live in Chicago and were on their way to a wedding in El Dorado. Sean is from Australia. He and Kris met while Kris was on a campaign to Australia while he was in school at Harding. Kris actually baptized Sean over there almost 13 years ago. They are such goof balls when they get together. They stayed up till after 1:30 last night talking and cutting-up with each other. When they get around each other, you never know what they are going to say or do. Since I wasn't able to get their picture together today, here are Kris and Sean at Sean's wedding last year in Florida.

What a pair!

Here are Lincoln, Sean, and Susan today. Hannah was in one of those "I don't want to stop what I'm doing to get my picture made" moods, so she's not in the picture.

Okay, these are just a couple of random pictures that I took of the kids today. Hannah climbed in this box and then Lincoln decided he wanted in there too. It didn't last long, but it was so cute.

This morning Hannah and I did a little Easter egg dyeing. I have not done that in SO long! It was fun. I think she enjoyed it.

Weekend with family

This weekend we went to Kansas City to visit Kris' family. They hadn't seen the kids since Christmas, so I think they really enjoyed seeing Lincoln walk around. It actually snowed on Saturday, but didn't stick. Yesterday, after church, Hannah, Lincoln, and their cousin, Isabel, had a little Easter egg hunt on the gazebo.

Les, Kris brother, found a BIG egg!!!!


Grandma giving the kids their Easter baskets.

All Lincoln really cared about was stringing the Easter grass everywhere!!

Hannah was really sad to leave.