Monday, November 9, 2009

Lincoln at Jeremy's 1st birthday party

This weekend Lincoln attended Jeremy's first birthday party. It was a farm animal theme, and even featured bails of hay and a saddle! There were no animals (of the furry kind), but there was still plenty of mess from the mini-humans! Linc had his first go on a swing and actually really enjoyed it!On another note, he has just learnt to sit down from being on his tummy which is a big achievement. He's also discovered that he can pull himself up in his cot and so thinks it's really funny to go walking around the cot when it's time to go to SLEEP! Unfortunately the unforgiving wooden sides of the cot have seen him cop a couple of bruises when he's fallen over, but nothing too serious.

Monday, November 2, 2009

General update

Not a great deal of news. Lincoln still sleeps from 8pm to somewhere between 7am to 8am. He gets up, has a bottle, plays for a bit then has breakfast (usually some kind of fruit puree and farex), then back to bed for a sleep before lunch (which is usually some kind of puree meal!). He then plays for quite a while, before having another bottle and an afternoon sleep before dinner (again, some kind of puree meal followed by yoghurt/custard or whatever is on the menu). Then it's a bottle at around 7.30pm and bed at around 8pm!

The main thing is that Lincoln is semi-mobile lately. It started with rolling around on the floor, but now he's actually pulling himself forward with a half-crawl thrown in. He hasn't quite got the concept of proper crawling just yet, but he's not too far off. What he loves, however, is walking around holding onto Mum or Dad's hands. Second to that is walking along in front of the couch while he holds himself up. We can't put him down too near the couch anymore, cause he turns around, grabs hold of the couch, and lifts himself up!

And then there's the remote controls - we spend $70 on a whizz-bang colourful toy that makes noises and lights up etc. and he's more interested in grabbing one of the seven remote controls that end up spread around the lounge room... and of course, he shoves them in his gob and smashes them on the couch for fun...Dad loves it when he does that. But luckily when they stop working you usually just have to dry out the batteries and they start working again...

Claire and Sam's wedding

This weekend the family drove to Shoalhaven Heads for the wedding of Claire and Sam. It was a beautiful day, the weather was perfect (although a bit windy) and Lincoln was extremely well behaved. He had a great time playing with Amelia (Fiona and Steve's daughter) and even took the time to pose for some fashion shots in his new 'special occasion' outfit!



Tuesday, October 13, 2009

8635g 13 October

Linc was weighed today and came in at a healthy 8.635 kg which means he gained about 575 g in the last month. Also of note is that he managed to stand himself up (from sitting) using the couch- twice, so definitely not a fluke!- and has started chewing on rusks!

Linc watches his first Bathurst 1000

With Mum off to work on Sunday it was just the boys at home, looking forward to 161 laps of close racing at the Supercheap Bathurst 1000! Linc appeared to enjoy watching the cars go around - and was over the moon to see Holden's first win at Bathurst since 1995.

Linc's new car

Last week Mum and Dad bought a new car for Lincoln. Mum's old Mazda was getting a bit tired so it was decided to get something a bit newer - 20 years newer to be precise - and bought a Ford Focus! Okay, actually it's for Mum (for her birthday!), but with six airbags, EBD, ABS, ESP and a 5 star ANCAP rating the safety features were the main selling point!

Dad can't believe a Ford now sits next to the Holden in the garage...!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Lincoln now 8 months old


Linc has hit the big 08 mths old with no real news to report. He's primarily onto solids now, which sometimes proves challenging - if he doesn't like something, he has a rather eloquent way of...spitting it right back out at you...!