4th Birthday

If you give a boy a birthday, he'll probably do this:

And when you're done doing that, he'll probably ask you for a muffin.

And when he's done eating muffins he'll probably want to go to the zoo so he can hug a cement frog.

And when he's done with that, he'll probably want to sit in front of the giraffe area and make faces at the camera with his Dad and little brother.

But since that won't be enough silliness, he'll probably want to make silly faces with his mom too.

After making all those funny faces, he'll probably want to ride a shark.

But since the shark can't go on land, he'll ride a lion instead, and attack his dad with it.

He'll probably be hungry and REALLY fight taking a family picture, so you'll have to bribe him with jellybeans so he'll sort of smile for the camera.

You'll have to make sure the kitchen is all decorated so that he feels really powerful.

And you'll have to light some candles because it wouldn't be a good birthday without melted wax on your piece of cake.

And if you give him a birthday cake with cars on it, you should probably make sure he gets a Cars book as a present.

And while you're at it, you should probably also give him a camera so he can bribe himself with jellybeans to smile for a picture.

And if you have all these pictures at the end of the day, you will probably need to post them on his blog to remember his awesome 4th birthday!

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Lincoln's First Church Talk

Last Sunday, March 6th, Lincoln gave his first talk ever in church during Primary. Primary is the LDS church's organization for kids ages 3-12. Each Sunday, kids meet with others their age in class. They are taught gospel lessons and participate in singing, scripture reading, and other activities. Among those activities are the opportunity to give short talks to the rest of the primary.

The theme Lincoln was given was: Heavenly Father speaks to us through his prophets. We helped Lincoln prepare a short 2-3 minute talk based on a story in the Book of Mormon about a prophet named Lehi and a dream he had about the Tree of Life.

Here is Lincoln's talk:

Lehi was a prophet. In a dream Lehi saw a tree and an iron rod. The dream came from Heavenly Father. If people held to the rod, then they got to the tree and were happy

President Thomas S. Monson is our prophet today. If we do what he teaches us, then we will be happy too. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Lincoln was a bit shy but did a great job giving his talk.

Is sarcasm genetic?

The other day I was asking Lincoln to move because I needed to get into Oliver's drawers...

Me: Beep, Beep,

Lincoln: Beep, Beep....

Me: Beep, Beep, hey can you move over so I can open Oliver's drawer?

Lincoln: No.....No I am a truck and I don't have the key.

How am I supposed to respond to that?

It comes with slide out cup holders!

Lincoln has officially graduated from toddler car seat to a full on big kid booster seat! Our little boy's growin' up!

We'd like to point out the features of this particular model:

• Sleek and durable mesh blue and black striping
• built in shoulder strap harness
• Memory foam butt padding

And ours and Lincoln's personal favorite:

• Count them! Not one, but TWO slide-out cup holders, for those extra hot AZ summers!
  

You may laugh but an extra sippy cup full of water could mean the difference between dehydration and just barely making it to the 7-11!

Car Show

They have a car show every Friday night at the Albertson's by our house. We decided to check it out. Lincoln liked this one, a '70 something Mustang GTO.

Sweet car! We're going back next week.

Sunbeam

Last Sunday Lincoln was beyond excited to see Olivia at church she had been in Utah for three weeks and he had missed playing with her at the park and in nursery. Starting on Thursday he repeatedly reminded Shawn and I that Christmas was over and that meant Olivia was coming back. All morning getting ready for church he was so excited to see Olivia.

Well the moment finally came, they held hands and walked off to nursery together. Maddie (Olivia's mom) and I were talking in the hallway when Kade (Olivia's dad) came and said that Olivia was having an emotional meltdown because they came and took Lincoln away to Primary because he was a Sunbeam now. I was dumbfounded! I was so surprised that Lincoln was old enough to be in Primary and be a Sunbeam! I actually got teary-eyed and Maddie laughed at my shock. A little while later a friend of mine at church told me that she saw Lincoln alone out in the hallway and asked him what he was doing out there all by himself. He responded "I can't find Olivia, she's not in my class anymore". I guess it was a rough transition for both Lincoln and Olivia.

Today was a little better, probably because Olivia was sick and wasn't a church today. He only had to come see me twice and apparently he asked his teacher if he could give a "talk" next week, so he seems to be warming up to primary a little.

1st Trip to the Dentist

Lincoln had his first trip to the dentist on Tuesday this week with Dr. Gary Manning, DDS. Shawn said that Lincoln was very brave and didn't get scared or squirm at all. AND most importantly his teeth look great, no cavities! Dr. Manning said it was too early to tell if he will have all the orthodontic issues his Mommy and her siblings had, but we will continue to save for braces, mouth guards, head gear, additional tooth extraction and anything else they throw at us . . . just in case.

Oliver was good at the dentist too.