It's FINALLY about the bike!

After 9 months of pushing, dragging, sitting on, falling off of, and having Mommy and Daddy carry his bike, Lincoln discovered this week that if he pushes down on the pedals, it goes on his own power! Yay! Suddenly, neighborhood walks take on a whole new element of speed!

Now we just have to work on not running into stuff . . . like the video camera . . . and Daddy's foot.

Dino Tie

Check out Lincoln's awesome Dino tie! Shawn found this tie on his mission and has never worn it, but thought it was cool, it is an official Smithsonian tie with dinosaurs on it! It suffered a mishap at church a couple of weeks ago when Lincoln had to go potty, but luckily Uncle John works at a dry cleaners, so the tie is as good as new!

"Santa Soap Beards"

Lincoln's potty training is going very well. We are on week 3 and he has got the hang of it. He is pretty much potty trained at night too! I couldn't believe it, but after the first couple of days he started waking up dry or in the middle of the night to "go". We still have accidents here and there, but we are really proud of him for catching on so quickly!

It's a number 2 kind of thing

This morning of November 15th 2009 at precisely 10:17am, Lincoln made his first poopoo in the potty. He has been cheering "I did it!" nonstop for the past 10 minutes. Congrats to our new big boy!!!

Goodbye you ridiculously expensive diapers!

Linc's Growing Up Rundown

Linc's been incredibly entertaining lately. Our very own circus monkey :) Here are some of his Lincoln-isms and escapades in October and November. By the way, he has officially reached a milestone in height: 3 feet! I remember when I reached that height. . .in the 7th grade. :)

• One morning Monica was getting ready for work. Lincoln was laying in bed with me and then said "Mommy go work, Lincoln go school, Daddy go airplane." Guess I've been doing a lot of traveling lately.
• Lincoln was in the bathtub and sang the whole ABC song all by himself.
• Lincoln was Buzz Lightyear for Halloween this year. In the weeks before the big night, Linc wore his costume constantly and developed sound effects for it. When he pressed the small buttons he said Buzz Lightyear lines like "Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!" and "To infinity and beyond!" When he pressed the big red button, he said "pssht" and raised his arms up for his wings. We got a good kick out of that.
• Uncle John came over to babysit Linc one night. Linc looked at us and said "My John, you go away!"
• After many long years of searching, I finally found one of my favorite childhood books. It was out of print but has just been rereleased again: Bears in the Night, a Berenstein Bears classic! We got it, read it about a million times, and Lincoln can now read the whole book. I got it recorded one night as well.
• Lincoln was eating crackers. Monica told him there weren't anymore. Lincoln thought for a second and said, "Go to Walmart and get more!" We're glad to see Linc knows how the world works. When it's all gone, go to Walmart to get more.
• We were watching Star Wars (Lincoln's self-proclaimed favorite movie!) He picked up a toy bowling pin and used it as a lightsabre while he watched. It was hilarious! Behold the skills:
  

Good stuff!

Cannonball!!!

Linc likes the swimming pool. He likes jumping into it even more. Each time we go swimming a good 30 minutes of that time is now dedicated to doing cannonballs into the pool. Linc climbs out, steps to the edge and yells out "CANNONBALL!" except you only really hear "CANNONB. gurgle, gurgle, blub, blub" as he goes into the water. It's pretty hilarious.

Let's go to the movies!

This past Saturday the 12th we took Lincoln to his first movie ever! We saw "Up". And yes, we saw the whole thing. Linc sat and enjoyed pretty much the entire flic other than when he got stuck in his chair. He said "Mommy, I stuck! Help me!" You know how those dollar movie theatre chairs are like: virtual bear traps! But we survived with all our limbs and thoroughly enjoyed Up. Today, I took Linc for a walk and he suddenly started saying "movie, guy with balloons, dog, bird, that was funny!" See Up and you'll know what Linc was talking about there.

Our little boy likes movies. Like father like son!

It's Not About The Bike

Look at that concentration.

Success!