Linc driving with Will

Whilst not one of Linc's chrissie presents, he certainly enjoyed cruising around with his cousin Will in this little red car!

Merry Christmas

Linc had a lovely christmas, spending christmas day with Mum's family, and boxing day with Dad's family who arrived around lunchtime. He was spoilt rotten, with some fantastic gifts that continue to hold his attention. Thankyou to all (including Santa) for the wonderful presents! The pic above is Linc with his Lion strider which he absolutely loves. He is so good at walking around the house holding onto it.

It has been a quiet christmas so far, with a trip planned to Sydney for New Years Eve (although we will NOT be going into Darling Harbour to watch the fireworks!)...

Linc climbing Mt Everest

The family did a quick trip to the border of Nepal and Tibet to visit the spectacular Himalayan Mountains. Whilst there we took the opportunity to climb Mount Everest which is 8,848 metres (29,029 feet) above sea level. See, you just learnt something, didn't you!

First tooth

Finally Linc's first tooth is coming through. It doesn't seem to be causing him heaps of bother, but he certainly knows it's coming by the amount of sucking/tonguing he's doing...

5 more sleeps till Christmas

Mum and Dad were explaining the concept of Christmas to Linc last night - he seemed intrigued... like he was planning to wait till Mum and Dad fall asleep before sneaking out and opening his seven hundred presents...!

The feet...

Well what can be said about Linc's humongous paws! Hopefully he'll grow into them and become an Olympic swimmer...?!

Linc does love his bathtime

His hair is growing quite thick now, it's actually down to his eyes. Mum doesn't want to cut it cause she likes the sheepdog look...

Merry Christmas!

It's been a rather unpleasant week to be parents i'm afraid - Linc fell ill last friday and got a fever. He was very unhappy. It's very hard to see him so sick when there's nothing you can do about it. Unfortunately it turned into a chest infection and he's now on antibiotics - which he hates, so it's a struggle to get him to take it morning and night...AND it's bright pink, so it gets on everything (why is this so?!).

Anyhow, he's slowly getting better, with his poor little cough on the way out, so we went out christmas shopping today - and met SANTA! So, if you know Linc, what do you think his reaction to Santa would be? 1 - crying, or 2 - happy as larry. If you guessed 2 you'd be...wrong. He cried and cried and it took us ages to calm him down enough to get a photo - hence his eyes are still a little moist in the final shot!

General update

As Linc hurtles towards 10 months old (!!) he has become unstoppable in his quest to explore the entire house. The ol' baby-proofing has been a bit hit and miss so far, with some things being extremely difficult to relocate. He's taken to playing with the Onkyo hi-fi system and turning the volume up really loud - then screaming cause it frightens him! Oh dear...! Anyhow, it's great to have him follow you around, as he loves being in the same room as you - and yep, that includes the toilet where he'll bang on the door whilst it's occupied...!

Dad bought him a new toy today - a Fisher Price Baby Grand Piano - he absolutely loves it - as demonstrated by the below photo...: