Lincoln visits Belconnen Mall

Isn't it amazing that it's not until you have a baby that you become aware of just how many Mum's and babies are at the shops during the week... It's called your reticular activating system (RAS) and is quite an interesting phenomenon - it's worth googling. Put simply, your reticular activating system is like a filter between your conscious mind and your subconscious mind. It takes instructions from your conscious mind and passes them on to your subconscious. In our case, we have a brand new baby, so Dad's subconcious mind is now noticing other babies - whereas before he wouldn't have. Another example is that you will find that you'll notice more cars of the type you have just bought on the road - wow I never knew there were so many Nissan Micras around - there's not more of them, it's just that you are noticing them!!! Anyway, Mum, Dad and Linc visited the Mall again today, and yet again, Linc had to stop Dad as we walked past Bras'n'things... And after all the excitement we just had to take a load off and down a muffin and a cappucino...