3 Years Old!!!

Hey Howdy Hey! It's Linc's 3rd Birthday!

Lincoln will officially turn 3 years old tomorrow. Yay! We had a birthday party for him today with friends and family in the park. As you might just be able to tell, he had a Star Wars themed party, complete with matching tablecloth and streamers from the friendly neighborhood party store. We had a great time with everyone who came. Thanks!

I took my drawring skills in a new direction, the edible kind, and made an R2D2 cake. Beep boop beep bop!

Linc was pretty thrilled with the Star Warsiness of the whole thing.

Someone brought a Darth Vader helmet which will substantially enhance Linc and Dad's daily lightsabre duals.

Ashlyn and Amara came dressed as twin Princess Leia's, complete with cinnamon roll hair arrangements.

John and Nicole were the awesome two who held off several kids and one hungry coyote to secure a pavilion in the park for the party. They even did all the decorating as well.

Linc and girl buddy Ya-Ya (Olivia)

As far as Lincoln is concerned, this is the only way to ride a swing: on the lap of an awesome grown up person. Thanks for the ride Nicole!

Spider Jensen's, Spider Jensen's, friendly neighborhood Spider Jensen's. . .

My mom got really high at the party!

Pizza!

Daddy Daughter

Ah Yeeeeah! Papa and Momma Bullen!

What Jensen's do well: stuff our faces!

Just plain old cute!

Linc: A new car!!!

Linc's favorite new toy at his Star Wars party was an official talking Woody figure. Props to Uncle John and Nicole on that!

Jigglers & Jumping Rope

A few nights ago, we made Jell-O jigglers. This is what ensued. . .

A couple of cute things he has said that we don't want to forget:

Lincoln: "Daddy, where is my Jesus picture? He loves me...okay, bye"

Me: Lincoln why don't you come help me make lunch?"
Lincoln: "Not right now Mommy, I'm busy"

Lincoln: "Mommy, I am going to come to work with you today"
Me: "But who will help daddy watch Seasame Street"
Lincoln: Shrugs his shoulders and makes a "psht" noise like "not my problem!"

Shawn and Lincoln were cleaning the garage when Linc found a jumprope. Shawn showed him how to use it and then gave it back to him, with this result. . .

If you build it he will come....

Lincoln has started catching and throwing the ball this way. We know its a little "backwards"
but we will take what we can get.

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!