5 months

Times flies!  Lincoln is 5 months already!  I can’t believe it.  We are still here having lots of fun with our little man.

Lincoln is a drool monster.  I’m not kidding, he should be dehydrated just by the amount of fluid he loses out his mouth!  It’s crazy!  He can make puddles.  If you think I’m kidding refer back to the photo at the top!

Link has decided he likes to sleep on his tummy.  In the past week or so if I put him down while he’s still awake, he rolls right over then lays his head down and goes to sleep.  Being the smart mom I am I just started laying him down on his stomach today.  Hopefully he’ll nap longer if he doesn’t have to wake up to roll over himself!

Speaking of rolling over, he does a lot of that too.  If I lay him down he rolls right over within a few seconds and stays that way.  I don’t think any of the other boys enjoyed being on their belly as much as Lincoln does.  He can also move all over the place because he’s so wiggly.  I don’t think he has any control over where he’s going, but he sure goes there anyway!  That’s why he’s surrounded by pillows.  We wouldn’t want him falling off the bed!

He is such a happy baby!  He’s always smiling, talking and laughing.  I love it when he squeals!  He seriously only cries when he’s tired, hungry or wants someone to give him attention.  If he’s just wanting attention he’ll stop the minute you pick him up and give you a big smile

He likes sitting straight up.  He used to hate his swing but since he’s been able to sit up better and we made it so he wasn’t reclining he likes it a lot better.  He doesn’t even use the back of the chair, he leans against the tray instead….and then drools.  He also likes sitting in his bumbo and his walker.  He can kind of sit up on his own for a minute but soon folds in half and ends up on the floor.

I don’t know what happened to his face there.  I’m not beating him promise!

   

He’s sleeping better finally.  I finally started letting him cry out his 1 a.m. feeding.  So now he generally gets up around 3 or 4 to eat and then will sleep again until 6:30 or 7.  I’m getting a lot more sleep so that makes me happy!

He loves food when I feed it to him.  I need to be a little more consistent with that.  I haven’t noticed that it helps him sleep any better or anything so I haven’t been religious with the solids yet.  But he does really well with them so far.  He’s only had squash and rice so far.

He plays with his toys a lot now.  I love watching him get his eye on something and then figure out how to get his hands to it and fingers around it.  So cute!

I should have some more pictures of him soon.  Gotta get that giraffe photo!

Ty’s 10 years old!

I can’t believe it really, I have a 10 year old.  It seems so crazy.  Ty’s birthday was last week on the 21st.  One thing we struggle with each year with Ty’s birthday is the deer hunt.  Ty was born on the opening day and so every year, the opening day is near or on his birthday.  Sometimes that can make things a little difficult when it comes to getting people to his parties. 

In the past Ty has gone with inviting 1-2 friends, going out to eat and then to a movie or bowling or something like that.  This year though, he wanted a party, so a party he got.  We decided to do everything Halloween themed and we had lots of fun putting everything together.

Ty wanted to take treats to his class.  I found these cute mummies and ghosts on the How Does She? blog and we had a lot of fun making them together. 30 of each!

For Ty’s birthday we did pizza with Halloween themed toppings like Beasty bites, toadstools, shredded brain and Slab of Skin.

His cake was called “Trifle of Death” in the book we found it in.  It looked totally gross, but something a 10 year old would love.  He did…

The punch was like Punch from the black Lagoon or something like that…

The kids played fear factor, which grossed some of them out.  We had them feel different things and guess what they might be.  Like Oatmeal was brains and Spaghetti was intestings, Raisins were witches warts etc.  Then they all ran around the house trying to find the most pumpkin stickers for a prize.

Then Ty opened his presents.  He got lots of candy!

Jesse left for scouts and came home looking like this…

Don’t worry, it looked real, but it wasn’t.  He had a pretty good story to go with it!

I think Ty had lots of fun at his party!  We’re glad everyone could come!

On Saturday we had a little family party for him.  My parents came with us and we went out to dinner.  It was super yummy, then everyone came over for cake and ice cream.  I made him a cheesecake that had a spiderweb on top.  I’ve never made a cheesecake like this before and it was really stinking good!

Don’t mind that I don’t match at all!

Opening presents…one of Ty’s favorite presents that he gets every year is in that cardboard box.  Grandpa brings him a box of chocolate milk.  Everyone else in the fam tries to drink it, he tends to get a little upset!

Thanks to everyone who made Tyler’s birthday special.  Tyler we love you buddy!  Thanks for everything you do at home and for being such a good kid wherever you are!

Football

The boys decided to play football this year.  This is Ty’s second year.  We are on a team with all the other police officers kids pretty much!  We love it, the kids know most of their teammates from school.  I do wish they would start earlier in the year though, even the first game this year was freezing.  It’s kinda hard to take Lincoln with me to the games when it’s so cold outside.  Josh has been working Monday and Tuesday nights though which is when 2/3 the games are so we don’t have a lot of choices.  We bundle everyone up and head to the games.  The boys are having lots of fun, getting some exercise and hopefully learning a little sportsmanship along the way!

Jesse:

I need to take my zoom lens.  Ty’s in the blue pants with the orange stripe and blue shirt right there in the middle.

Tracen all bundled up at the first game

Obsession

My son is obsessed with peanut butter.  Yep peanut butter.  If you leave it anywhere he can reach it he will be in it.  He eats is plain with a butter knife, on toast or as a pb&j he doesn't care as long as he's got it.  So what did I find tonight when I walked in my room?  Tracen sitting on my bed, eating/rubbing peanut butter everywhere.  Josh just washed that blanket because of a Lincoln accident now it's got peanut butter on it.

Who knows maybe peanut butter is good for the skin.  Maybe Tracen will invent a peanut butter skin care line.  For now he's just rubbing it all over his legs.  And now by bathroom smells like peanut butter and has a peanut butter film on the bottom of the tub...

How many times was peanut butter mentioned in this post?

4 months

I better hurry and get this posted before Lincoln is 5  months old! 

Here is Link at 4 months!  We still think he is so cute!

We took him to the Dr. this past week. He is now 15 lbs 4 oz and like 26 inches long.  That keeps him right around 50% for his weight and 80% for height.  This momma’s arms are grateful that he’s not as big as Tracen was!  And he’s not grateful we went to the Dr.  He was pretty upset at those girls who talked so nice to him and then gave him shots.

The lighting stinks on some of these.  He was right under a window and I didn’t notice the glare until after the pictures were loaded onto the computer.

As you can tell, he is still smiling, bigger than ever.  He is such a fun happy baby.  He does get upset when he’s being ignored though!

Anything he gets his hands on now goes directly into his mouth for a kiss or a good nawing on.  Poor giraffe!

He has learned how to stick out his tongue.  It’s so funny!

He makes the funniest faces

He talks a lot and giggles.  I love to sit and have a little chat with him.  It’s the best!

Who wouldn’t want to have a chat with this cute boy?

He loves to stand up.  Start pulling him up and he straightens out those little legs.  Then he smiles big at this accomplishments.

He does NOT sleep through the night, or anywhere close to it.  He gets up at least twice.  5 times on a bad night.  The Doc gave the green light for sleeping through the night so Josh and I are getting on the same page as far as a schedule goes then we’re going to let him cry a bit.  I may have a come apart, I hate to hear him cry.  However, I also would like a little sleep.

He’s saying “oh dear, she said they’re going to do what?”

This is pretty funny.  He’s figured out those hands might be attached to him.  He gets them out in front of him and will just stare at them.

He has turned into quite the drool monster.  A few hours after getting dressed he’s mostly all wet.  I thought about changing his shirt for these pictures but wet is the way he is most of the time so I figured we’d better document it!  And his shirt was wet in theses too:

I sure love this little boy!  I can’t imagine our family without him.  I’m so grateful that Heavenly Father decided to send him to us, sleep deprived and all.  Soon enough I’ll be sleeping (oops he’ll be sleeping lol) through the night again and I’ll miss him being so little.  So I hope I can enjoy every minute of him being this way!

Millie

My niece Millie spent a few weeks with my parents having fun.  Last week she and Grandma decided to come stay in the trailer and have some fun with us.  And fun we had.  We played at the park and ate lots of popsicles.  Grandma had to go home for some really fun Relief Society meetings and other such stuff so we invited Millie (and her dog Foochie) to stay at our house.  We’re so glad she did.  Tracen loved having a buddy to play with all day and Ty and Jesse had fun with her after school.  Addi came over to play quite a few times as well.  We’re so glad she came to stay for a few days!

Millie, Lincoln and Foochie

Millie can hold her own in a light saber fight

Millie, Addi and Tracen out having fun

Thanks Millie for coming and staying with us!  We had lots of fun!

Jerry’s Birthday Party!

Last week we had Jerry’s 40th birthday party.  He planned the whole thing down to his three cakes and the guest list.  The only thing we couldn’t figure out was how to surprise him, since he wanted a surprise party :) 

Here are his “cakes”  he wanted a construction cake and a police cake, but he also wanted Strawberry cake, white cake and chocolate cake, so to get the chocolate in Crystal made the yummy cupcakes.

We made the Police cake and Ty helped me design it.  I thought the light bar was a cute idea.  Jerry wanted it to say “happy birthday 3w99 so that’s what we put!  Teresa made the construction cake and when Ty saw it he was like “wow” and then he said “mom I feel bad for our cake!” lol  It was an awesome cake!

They had lots of yummy food too! Here’s Jesse sneaking a bite before the party started.

 

Jerry got lots of presents.  We found out he got caught opening some of them in the house and he had to hurry and stuff them back in the bags and bring them out to the party LOL!!

Lots and lots of people came

 

 

The weather was super great.  I think everyone had lots of fun!  And I think Jerry had a great birthday! 

Happy 40th Birthday Jerry!

And here are few random pics from the party of my favorite peeps!

He could be her kid!  I guess he looks like the Neilsons :) check out that drool too, that’s a new feature.