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...:

Linc attends Anthony's Dedication Ceremony

Yesterday the family did a day-trip to Sydney to attend Anthony's Dedication Ceremony at West Ryde Baptist Church. It was a lovely ceremony and was followed by a great big cook-up back at Anthony's place. Linc also had a dip in the pool with Anthony and Jeremy as it was a very muggy day (although not like today which was 40 degrees in Sydney!).

Crawling...

Linc is now officially crawling. Whilst he has been semi-mobile for a little while now, he has just recently got the whole crawling action going on - but (and you can't blame him) he isn't a fan of crawling on the tiles, so he much prefers crawling on the rug or carpeted areas (of which there aren't many in the house)!

9265g 13 November

Lincoln had his 9 mth checkup on Friday. He now weighs 9265g (a gain of 630g in a month!) and is 74cm tall (gained 5cm in 3 months).

This means he is in the 50th percentile for weight, and 75th for height.

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.

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!