Sunday FunDay

Last Sunday AJ and I took Lincoln to the Sunrise Petting Zoo in Waterloo. He is such an animal lover so thought he would enjoy it and he sure did. I think he would have rather climbed inside with the animals though! The top left pictures he was loving the pony, then it must of like smelled his finger or something and he got super sad (see bottom right picture!) Our time got cut short because there was a concert going to start and they needed to shut the gate in the parking lot. We then thought it would be fun to check out the splash pad. We didn’t have his suit or anything but it was still fun to hang out there for a bit with the mist of water on us since it was so hot! It was definitely a fun day all together:)

Lincoln’s Baptism

Lincoln was baptized Sunday August 15th at Orchard Hill Church with Dave Bartlett. It was such a special day for all of us. We pray we do our best job as his parents to teach him about the Lord and live a life following Christ. We were so happy for all the family that could be there to celebrate this day with us.

11 months old!

I absolutely love this busy stage! Here are some fun things from this month:

-Spit up is practically gone so weaning him off his acid reflex meds

-Concentrates so hard while playing

-Puffs his cheeks and makes the “b b b” sound

-Constantly shakes his head NO when you talk to him :)

-Has a mean little bite!

-Before he sat up just okay but more only when I sat him up, but we took him back to the chiropractor last week and found out he did not have good range of motion in his left hip so got that adjusted. Dr. Blake said a lot of kids start walking after he works on that. Well I now can say he is sitting all the time from laying to sitting constantly! Just in the past couple days he is pulling himself up on things, especially in his crib. I have also found teeth marks in his crib! He still army crawls everywhere. He tries so hard to crawl with all fours, so close.

-His fine motor skills are also improving. His PT says this just will keep getting better as his trunk strengthens. He figured out how to put balls in his elephant toy and other toys now. I love watching him do this!! He will sit for long periods of time just putting balls in and taking them out.

-Still eats table food and completely enjoys it. Some new foods this month he has loved are: French toast sticks, smoothies, corn (makes gross diapers;), omelets, ravioli. We are working on milk in Sippy cup. He has also started some of the time drinking from a straw.

-Very obsessed with playing with doors. He loves to open and close drawers but had our first finger pinch yesterday. Bruises show up all over!

-Visited his new little friend born last week, Mason Geopfert. We then went and visited nurses in the NICU. They could hardly recognize him!

-Got baptized this past Sunday, exactly 11 months old. It was a great day – that post will be next!

      Your “b b b” face

  

 

Time with Uncle Monte!

My brother was able to make it back to Iowa from Colorado for about 10 days and split the nights between our house and my parents house. Monte had only seen Lincoln during Christmas time so a lot has changed since then. It was so much having him here. His finance, Erica, came for a few days too before they headed to Michigan with her family to do wedding planning. A few days after they left our house my family actually went on a little vacation to Michigan to meet Erica’s family. It was a relaxing time enjoying time together in the crazy heat. One day there was a nice breeze and we enjoyed time on the beach at Lake Michigan. Lincoln had a blast in the water!! We will get to see Uncle Monte one more time as he stops back here on his way back home. We miss him already!!

Just realized the spit up coming from his mouth!

Michigan trip:

I was too lazy to go in and get Lincoln’s swim diaper so we left him in his regular diaper. Holy cow that thing must have weighed 10 pounds. He eventually got naked :)

Lincoln slept for almost an hour and a half on me! I guess I fell asleep too and daddy captured some pictures :)