Happy Belated Christmas!

Happy Christmas and I guess Happy New Year to everyone now. With all the crazy stuff happening with the holidays, I haven't had much time to update here.

Link is 10 weeks old now. It is kind of hard to believe that over 2 months has passed since we were trapped in the hospital with no end in sight. He has grown so much since we brought him home and not only physically, but mentally as well. He is smiling like crazy now and he interacts a little more everyday. We went up to see my parents last night and he had a great time with Aunt Kara and Grandpa and Grandma.

I took a lot of pictures from Christmas since we had to visit all four families like usual, but I will wait to post them until after tonight since we are going to Detroit for New Year's Eve.

I'm going to start logging certain things here as well since I don't feel like writing them down. Just the little milestones we pass along the way as Lincoln grows like when he first eats solid food and his first moments crawling. I'm also going to start finding random trivial facts and putting one on each month, or, if I am able to, one per post. I just want something slightly more interactive for you readers than just reading my mindless blather about my son. Although they will mostly be facts about the English language, so I can't guarantee they will be all that interesting...

This is an example of how the new posts should look at the end:

Milestone: Lincoln can almost hold his own head up without assistance - 2.5 months

Fact: "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.

Many happy returns to you all in the coming new year!

Finally caught a smile!!!

Yes folks, that's right! The elusive "Lincoln Smile" finally caught in digital print!

You thought you'd never see it but now we are bringing it to one and all for your personal viewing pleasure!

We have been trying to capture these funny little smiles to no avail. The thing about Lincoln is that he is only this happy for about 10 minutes a day. On top of this, he only smiles for a few seconds at a time since his face is still learning how to do it right. Yesterday, Gena was playing with him and caught a couple and then today I predicted his reaction and had the camera ready. The fact that I even framed it up properly is a miracle in itself, not to mention that I captured the exact second he opened up.

Enjoy them, these may be the last you see for a while!

In case we don't update on the day, Happy Christmas to everyone! And thank you to all my clients who come to see me regularly...now you see what you are supporting by taking care of yourselves and seeing me regularly! Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Newest pictures updated

I just got the new pictures up. Bath pics and sleepy pics and pictures mommy took with the new computer!

Fun times!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

First big snow of the year today. Looks like we are going to get a few inches if we are unlucky. Isn't it surprising how long it took for the snow to come this year; for it to get cold for that matter.

We recently got into this show, Dexter. Everyone has been talking about it but we always tend to avoid anything people are hyping until the very last minute. We ran out of new television material to watch on Netflix so we broke down and started Dexter. So far, we're impressed. Although, to be fair, we have always been interested in serial killer stories.

Gave the baby a bath tonight and he pooped in the tub. the first of many times in his life I'm sure (even if I'm not looking forward to it.)

Took a lot of new pictures of him. Recent developments: Link coos and gahs now. He also interacts in a way he never has before. We can almost play with him a little now. He also responds to us talking to him by talking back a little bit. He smiles a lot more and he follows both mom's and dad's voices around the room. He sleeps better than he used to; most of the night now except when he wakes up to eat and get changed and then he falls right back to sleep.

We are loving our new computer. It is totally awesome!

No news on the house front except that we have to wait some more. We are switching mortgage companies now and we are looking at something like January 20th hopefully. Wish us luck and keep your fingers crossed for us!

New pictures are up on the slideshow and don't forget that the old ones are ARCHIVED

Lazy

I have gotten very lazy with this blog!! Lincoln turns 8 weeks tomorrow, the house deal is at a standstill for the moment and with Christmas around the corner, we need to get this stuff figured out.

We bought our new mac Sunday and it rocks!! We also took a bunch of new pictures of the little man that I will try to put up tonight.

The semester is nearly over and that is also very awesome!

All in all we are well even though Link occasionally still keeps us up all night.

Watch for new pictures in the slideshow!!

Hard to Believe

I can't believe it is already December! Time certainly does fly. Link is over 6 weeks old now and we have recently been going through the pictures from the day we brought him home and realize how big he has gotten!!

If anyone gets the chance, look through the archive section on Picasa. It's crazy! Here is the link again if you can't find it...

Archive

We took some new ones recently so check out the slideshow! He got to meet grandpa on Satruday after Thanksgiving.