Plastic Carnage

We regret to report that Air Jensen flight 623 has crashed near the front door. It appears the Lego Jumbo Jet suffered major turbulence due to a 2 year old named Lincoln ripping the wings off the fuselage mid-flight, sending the remains of the plane into a nosedive directly into hard tile. We are told there were no survivors.

We warn you that these pictures are extremely graphic and should not be viewed by any Lego men!!!

Going out for a walk

This morning we were playing in the living room when we noticed an earwig crawling across our tile floor toward the front door. I asked Linc where the bug was going and he said "on a walk!" after which Lincoln opened the front door to let the earwig go on his "walk."

On another note, earwigs don't crawl in your ears while you're asleep and lay eggs so their babies can eat your brain.

CHURCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This morning we woke up to Lincoln crawling in to bed with us. After a couple of minutes, Lincoln said: "Church"? And I said "Yes, today is Sunday, and we are going to church." Lincoln's response was priceless... "Church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The irony is that with that kind of excitement you'd think that Lincoln would want to put his church clothes on without a fight and that he would to want to sit quietly in Sacarament, and be a well behaved angel of a boy...nope! Well, at least he's excited about church in general so maybe we are doing something right. :)

What I do for work...

This morning I was getting Lincoln ready for "school" as I was getting ready for work.

Me: "Lincoln, we need to hurry because Mommy needs to get to work early today."

Lincoln: "I go work."

Me: "I would love to have you come to work with me today, but what would you do all day?"

Lincoln: "Eat!"

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!