Lincoln and some cousins...

Linc is a lucky little fella' to have such a large number of cousins... This is Will and Bec, who just adore holding him!!! (Linc is 9 wks old in this photo). And with cousin Rach at Easter (10 wks)

Chilly autumn evening

Linc came out and helped Dad put up the bamboo fencing tonight. It was a bit chilly so he stayed in the baby bjorn with Mum, who made sure he had his new beanie on (thanks Nerissa and Marty!)...

Linc's first visit to BUNNINGS

Dad had to duck down to Bunnings today to pick up a roll of bamboo fencing. Mum and Linc came with him, and boy was that a mistake! Linc dragged everybody around to every aisle in Bunnings thinking that all of his christmas's had come at once! Suffice to say Linc maxxed out his credit card and has now planned a number of projects around the home, starting with a cubby-house with its own second storey deck and planetarium... Then I think he may have woken up...!

But it certainly topped off a fantastic weekend, with Linc getting heaps of sleep - for example - Friday night: 9hrs, Saturday night: 7.5 hrs, Sunday night: 9.5 hrs... Can you believe it?!! It seems that Mum's decision to start his last feed at 8pm is working as he now seems to be sleeping through the night - quick, find some wood to touch!!!

Eye colour

It's an amazing thing, eye colour - i found this on the net, which is quite interesting:

In a blue eye there is not much melanin in the anterior border layer. The light passes into the stroma where the collagen fibres scatter the light back as blue. In a green eye (or a hazel one) there is a variable level of melanin, so that some of the light is absorbed by the melanin and some is scattered by the collagen. The brown layer looks yellow as it is thinner, and so the yellow and blue mix to make green.

Well there you go. And this net excerpt explains why brown eyes are so dominant and why green are so unusual:

Your eye colour is determined by your genes. When you are made two sex cells join: one from your mother and one from your father. These cells to some extent determine what you will look like.Each gene is made up of two alleles: these can be either dominant or recessive (a dominant allele dominates a recessive allele). Eye colour will be determined by your parents for example: if both your parents have brown eyes and their alleles are the same (homozygous brown) or (BB) the child will definitely have brown eyes.It is however possible for a person with brown eyes to have a blue eyed allele. Blue is recessive: therefore if you have 1 blue allele and one brown allele you will have brown eyes. Your gene will be (Bb) B= brown and b=blue. If two people with this gene (Bb) have a child there is a 1 in 4 chance that it will have blue eyes. Because the blue allele is recessive you will only have blue eyes if your gene is (bb). Therefore two blue eyed people will definitely have a blue eyed baby. Green is the most recessive eye colour this means that both blue and brown is dominant over it.

It also goes on to say that most babies have blue eyes - but these can and often do change. Apparently a baby's eye colour should stabilise around the 6 mth mark.

Smiles!!!

When you smile at Linc and he smiles back at you - that's what life is all about... and it makes all the bad things in life seem so trivial... enjoy!

A visit from Aunty Joyce

Well this weekend it was an absolute pleasure to have Dad's Aunty Joyce visit from Adelaide. Lincoln took an instant liking to her and regularly gave her smiles throughout her stay. I think Aunty J thought that was very special! Linc was also lucky to get a beautiful present of some socks, a bib, a little suit and a singlet all done up to look like a bunch of flowers - it was very clever!

4925g 16 April

An update on the weight situation - Linc now weighs 4925g (10lb 14oz). He's about 59cm long now too and is around the 50th percentile for height, but only just over 10th percentile for weight - so he's long and lean - just like a greyhound!!!

Lincoln and Anthony (9.5mths).