It Hurts Us!

The other day Lincoln banged his toe on the corner of the front door and it took a little chunk of skin off. He wasn't too happy about that (who would be right?). We got it all fixed up with neosporin and a band-aid. Since then, he's begun saying, in the most pathetic sad voice possible, "It hurts!" He's been saying it all the time and in the same way "It hurts! It hurts!" It sounds remarkably reminiscent of Gollum from Lord of the Rings. . ."It hurts us! It hurts us! Poor Gollum. . .I mean Lincoln.

Lincoln Letters

Right now, I'm sitting in the family room and Lincoln keeps running in the kitchen and bringing back one magnetic letter from the fridge. He shows it to me and I say what it is. He then repeats it and goes and puts it back. Then he grabs another one. We've gone through about 3/4 of the alphabet so far.

Funny kid!

Monica is gone to girl's camp so it's a boys week at the AZ Jensen's. Holla!

Random Acts of Fun...

Lincoln has reached the "I do it!" stage. At least I guess it's a stage, or phase, or whatever. I guess by calling it a stage we are tricking ourselves into hoping that one day he might grow out of it :) like when he is 19 and is leaving on his mission. Everything is "I do it!" He HAS to turn on the water, HAS to open the car door, HAS to pick out his clothes, HAS to brush his teeth, EVERYTHING! It's actually really cute and we love that he's so independent. I think the thing I struggle with is the clothes; I kind of like dressing him up every day, making sure his clothes match. Lincoln wants to wear his "Cars" shirt every day...well I don't do the laundry every day so that isn't an option and we will most likely NOT be getting him a whole Cars wardrobe either.

This is Olivia Janes. Her mom, Maddie, has been babysitting Lincoln for the last 6 weeks. Lincoln calls Olivia: Yaya. I think Linc is in love with her. He "talks" about her all day long, and always wants to go see her and when he sees her at church he gets all excited and starts calling out to her, "Yaya, Yaya"! Apparently, Shawn takes Linc on "walk bys" of Yaya's house. We might need to work on Linc's forwardness toward girls or he might frighten the cute ones away. Yaya's sticking around so far. . .

Lincoln is cute. This morning he said "Happy Mother's Day" to me. Thanks Shawn.

He loves to climb and jump all over and fall off of the ottoman in the living room. He is probably watching TV in this picture. Notice the blank, staring expression...

A few days ago, we had the radio on and Shawn and I started dancing. Shawn dipped me and Lincoln thought that was the funniest thing in the world and just started laughing hysterically. Luckily we got the camera rolling and caught some of it here:

He just keeps right on growing!

Can you tell we like our kid?

Shawn took this picture of Lincoln in the bathtub, I think it is a really cool picture.

Lincoln can not get enough of being outside, playing at the park, and throwing the ball around!

Like all children, Lincoln loves water. This is the water fountain at the Mall. Lincoln's second favorite place other than the park. Lately he has been saying "Mall? Play Place? Puppies? We go to the Mall Play Place atleast 4 times a week, which always includes a trip to the pet store to see the puppies.

Row Row Row Merry Merry Merry

The past few weeks Linc has begun singing along with us when we sing. His favorite songs right now are Popcorn Popping, Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, and Row Row Row your boat. For that last one he sings Row Row Row Merry Merry Merry. Cute kid!

When he sings Sunbeam, Shawn sings the words and when it gets to the BEAM! part, Lincoln shouts Beep! He's also made it into a game where instead of saying Beep!, he starts cheering instead.

Linc is a huge tease! I know I'm partly to blame for that. :)

-Shawn

Singing In The Rain

Believe it or not it doesn't rain very often here in Mesa, AZ. A couple of weeks ago we had a stormfront (I use the term stormfront loosely, although it did actually rain off and on for a couple of hours, which is very rare) come through and give us a couple inches of rain. This was Lincoln's first time playing in the rain.

Lincoln Park

Lincoln has become quite the climber. He climbs on anything and if you try to help him he says "NO"! Too bad the chain is right in front of his face.

Lincoln was given several kites for his birthday. If you look really closely you can see Buzz Lightyear. Both of these pictures were taken at the park near our home.