12 months

I can't believe my baby boy is 1! He is just too little to be a 1 year old. I took him to the doctor for his 1 year check up and here are his stats:

Head circumference: 45.3 cm (25%)
Height: 29" (25%)
Weight: 18 lbs 1 oz (3%)

It's so strange having such a tiny little guy! Ethan was such a tank and always hit the 97% for weight. Lincoln isn't even at the 20lb mark, so we can't switch car seats yet. Tiny little boy.

Some random facts about Lincoln this last month:

*He started walking just after he turned 11 months old! He took his first steps on Sept. 27. Now he thinks he is such a big boy and tries to run after Ethan. He's getting fast too!
*He's still a really good eater and loves table food. He eats slow and steady. I can just keep feeding him small portions and he'll sit and eat for a good hour. One night he grazed for a good two hours while I cooked dinner and did the dishes. You would have no idea he could eat so much when you see how small he is. :)
*He's getting more and more difficult to photograph. Every time the camera is out, he turns away from me and ignores me until it's put away. Annoying. Hopefully it'll pass soon. It makes taking monthly photos not very fun, and the hopes of getting a good one ... slim.
*He has 7 1/2 teeth now. 4 on top, 3 and one coming in on the bottom. It's made him a bit on the cranky side. Hopefully it'll feel better soon.
*Ethan can still make him laugh ridiculously hard when he wants too! Lincoln LOVES Ethan.

He's a total sweetheart and just fits right in. It feels like he's been here forever. :)

Halloween

These are a little late, but my computer has been having issues loading pictures ... so, better late than never.

Ethan has been looking forward to Halloween and "trick or treat" for a good month or two now. He has been watching The Nightmare Before Christmas, and any other Halloween movie he could get his hands on non-stop. He watched The Nightmare Before Christmas so often, that little Lincoln would sing one of the songs to himself over and over again. It was quite funny.

Anyway, this year we decided to have the boys be The Three Musketeers. Ber went to work on the costumes, and of course they turned out super cute. Ethan told me for a good month that he wanted to be Harry Potter again. He was really mad about his costume until he was actually wearing it and found out he had a sword. After that, he loved his costume. (He was a little on the grumpy side in a lot of these pictures, he licks his lips a lot so they were cracked and hurting him. Once he got some chapstick and out collecting candy, his mood drastically changed).

My Three Musketeers:



Mr. Lincoln looked so darn cute. He really liked Ethan's sword. It distracted him from his hat too. :)





Kace's family of Three Musketeers:


Ethan at our ward trunk or treat. This was the first year we've ever attended a trunk or treat. It was a little weird, but we went trick or treating in my Grandma's neighborhood after so it worked out.


Once we got started, Tyler suddenly got really smiley and happy. He was being so good. What a little trooper.


Ber and Ethan


Ethan at the robot house again. This house is so fun. Ethan really liked the robot a lot more this year than past years.






When we got home and poured all his candy into one pile, we found out that he had a TON! I had to weigh it again, and it came out to just over 5 1/2 pounds!! That's a lot of goodies.

It's hard to see from this bag, but this is not just a typical 1 gallon bag, it's a 2 gallon ziplock bag, and it's ginormous!


Ethan was exhausted but had a great time. Lincoln was pretty much ready for it to be over and didn't even go out trick or treating with us. He just hung out at my Grandma's house with his Grandma. It was a fun night. Hopefully it met all of Ethan's expectations. :)

DJ E-Man

Ethan loves to play with anything that has to do with music. We seriously have like 3-4 toy keyboards, a toy guitar, a drum, a xylophone, and who knows what other music toys to play with at our house. This keyboard that he got from Grandma last Christmas is by far the most fun! (For kids and parents both). It comes with a microphone, lots of sound options, a mixing station and .... headphones! Nice. He can play as much as he wants, and I don't have to hear it all blasting through the house.

Bath time

My boys love bath time! (And shower time!) But what makes a bath even more fun than normal??

Having your cousin join in on the fun too!

The tub was getting a little full. Good thing there are only three boys for now. :)

11 months

I'm once again a little behind, but better late than never.

September 21st, my little man turned 11 months old! He's such a sweetheart and is growing up too fast.

*He's still just a tiny little thing
*He still wears size 2 diapers
*He still fits in 6-9 month clothing, but the pants are getting too short on him so we are transitioning to super baggy 12 month clothes so he doesn't have floods
*He loves to eat and is a good little eater!
*He is so so so close to walking! He can pull himself up and stand. He walks along furniture really good. It's going to be any day now.
*He got another tooth and now has 7! 4 on top, 3 on the bottom.
*He's super sweet and loves his Mama!
*He loves Ethan!
*He gets so excited when Mart gets home from work and plays with him. He loves wrestling with Ethan and Mart at night before bed. He may be tiny, but he'll be able to hold his own. :)



I love you little man! I can't believe you are growing up so fast!

Dinosaur Garage

When our daily routine starts to get a little dry and bland, We try and find new ways to spice it up. One morning Ethan was playing with his dinosaurs and the bar stools, so I decided to jazz it up a little and so I threw a couple blankets over the top and make a fort for him and his dinosaurs. Ethan loved it! He called it his dinosaur garage. He played with it all day long!





I guess we'll have to build another "garage" soon!

Goof

Sometimes when I set Lincoln down and get ready to take his picture, he starts doing really weird things. It gets next to impossible some days to get a decent picture. For example:

Instead I get flexible, long legs ninja man:


And super relaxed, extremely long legs man:


Along with several other fun poses. :)

He is such a goof!

Pumpkin Carving

Ethan has been completely obsessed with pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons ... basically all things to do with Halloween lately. His favorite movie has been The Nightmare Before Christmas. He walks around the house scream/singing/shouting the words to "This is Halloween" all day long! He sings it so much that Mr. Lincoln now sings the same song too! It's totally crazy. I keep trying to catch it on video ... but everytime the camera comes out, he stops singing. Maybe one of these days I'll be able to catch him.

Anyway, we had a pumpkin carving party with Kace and Ryan at Ryan's parents house on Sunday. We thought Ethan would be totally excited to see all the pumpkins! We chose Jack from the Nightmare Before Christmas for his pumpkin, but he wasn't all that interested until there was a candle in it. After that, he was super excited about it.



Kace decided to freak Mart out and carve a shark into hers. Ha ha. It was funny.


Ryan and Mr. Tyler. He's getting so big!! He sure loves his Dad.


It's been really fun that Ethan is so into Halloween right now. Martin and I both love Halloween ... in fact, we got engaged on Halloween. It's kind of our holiday. :) I'm excited to take both my boys trick or treating this year! They are going to be super cute!

Change of seasons

With the change of the seasons, we are going to see a lot less of this. . .

A lot less mud and a lot more indoors. Ethan will definitely miss playing outside once the snow hits.

Already??

I have been trying to upload a video for a couple of weeks now, but for some reason blogger just doesn't let me load them anymore! Annoying. Anyway, my sweet little munchkin started walking on September 27!! He's too dang little to start walking! He's getting so good at it now too, he is getting faster and way better at balancing when he steps on a toy or something. I can not believe that he turns 1 next week! Insane. Time goes way too fast.