HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

To all you dads out there. To the wanna-be dads and the adopted dads who just welcome kids into their homes all the time...to the dads-to-be and the grand-dads and great grand-dads...Happy Father's Day. Today I get to celebrate the first of many years to come of being a father.

There will be days when I get woken up to messy breakfast in the kitchen caused by good intentions. There will be days when I have to give the "father/son heart to heart" and "the talk". There will be days when I get to take pictures before an embarrassed Lincoln runs out the door with his date to the dance and days when I have to help him move into a dormroom, apartment, new house...etc. While I look forward to all of these times with affection in my heart and a smile on my face, I am content with the first being now and letting the rest come in good time.

This was part of my father's day gift:

From At home with Lincoln

The Tooth!!

Here it is...

From At home with Lincoln

Father's day is coming soon...

And of course Gena couldn't wait to give me the gift she and the baby got me. It's cool, a DW 9000 bass drum pedal. Not that many of you will understand what that means, but all the same...really cool. Thank you son and wife! Also, you may notice that I posted some new pictures. I put up a group of new shots I took of Link tonight and I also posted some pictures of my dad with me as well as his grandson. With dad day coming up, I thought it fitting to show how great of a dad I have and to show everyone who I learned from. Unfortunately, he doesn't use the internet very often and so he won't likely see these photos, but I'm sure someone I'm related to will see them here and tell him!

From At home with Lincoln

Happy early early Father's Day to all of you handsome men out there with kids!

From At home with Lincoln

P.S. I also posted some more new pictures of the boy in the ZOO album and there is a picture of the house in it's present condition in the slideshow to the right...ENJOY!

Getting Sentimental

We are trying to get things in order around here. This means packing, organizing, throwing old things away and determining what exactly we will need for the next 2 weeks until we move. The first task Gena decided to undertake was to separate the baby clothes. She has a friend in the Derby named Cold Fusion who is pregnant with a boy and we are going to loan some of our old clothing to her. Of course this means we are going through all of his old clothing and saying things like "He was sooo tiny!" and "I can't believe he fit into this at one time!"

It is kinda funny how you can get sentimental after only 8 months. Luckily, I was a total crazy with the camera so we have about 2000 pictures of him from when he was so little. As soon as we get the house I will hook up the network again and we will be back in business as far as staying on top of this blog and updating pictures more often. The only other thing we need to get now is some new professional pictures. Hopefully soon...

Well, it's Summer...

There are approximately 12 tomato plants, 5 dying cucumber plants and 3 or 4 dead cauliflower plants on my porch right now...without a house and a garden space to plant them they are mostly doomed. My mother-in-law is adopting my tomatoes in hopes of some sort of harvest on them this summer, but I suppose I will replant after we close and fertilize the crap out of the garden in hopes of some salvation. I think the worst part of it is that I gave these things life only to watch it slowly wither away again. Even though we are vegan because plants don't have feeling and animals do, I still feel horrible bestowing life upon something and then being forced to watch it die.

Separately from this, Lincoln is getting closer to 8 months and his teeth are beginning to actually come in after months of trying. He cut his first tooth about a week ago now and despite the horrible pain and suffering it caused him, he seems to enjoy chewing on real foods now. He has recently been using this little bottom tooth to shave bits of carrot off into his mouth as well as cucumber and bread. I occasionally get the feeling we will see the emergence of yet another one next to the first based on his demeanor some nights. Hopefully it gets a little bigger soon so I can take some pictures.

Finally, don't get your hopes up too high, but I think we may be finally finished with this house deal. We have an estimated closing date of June 23rd and we have to close before June 30th to receive the tax credit for first time home buyers. We are most of the way through underwriting, which means that as soon as we get our "commitment" from the bank, we are waiting for "cleared to close" and then BOOM, we are homeowners! Like I said, I can only look at this whole thing with the greatest skepticism due to the overwhelming problems we have constantly run into. So keep hope alive, but don't get your hopes too high...

I don't know how I fell apart with this blog, oh wait, yes I do...no reliable internet access, living in a house where we would rather be gone all the time, working more hours...and last but certainly not least, a baby that demands almost every extra minute of free time we have! Anyway, I am working hard to correct my failures here and hopefully soon we will have a house and the ability to upload all of our pictures and post new updates regularly.

On a completely different note...Apple announced the new iPhone4 yesterday and I couldn't be more excited about it!! Preorder begins June the 15th and we have no contract right now. The only bummer is that AT&T is now limiting the amount of data usage you can have. 250MB or 2GB...no more unlimited...bummer.