Easter

We had Easter at my Aunt Anahi's and Uncle Mike's house this year. Lincoln did a little better finding eggs than last year. Last year he would find an egg and sit and eat its contents immediately, this year, he filled his basket as fast as he could and then sat down to gorge himself.

Lincoln was playing with my dad over by the pool and was jumping around and counting the flagstones around the edge, he starting jumping faster and faster (probably a jellybean sugar rush) and lost his balanced. I turned around to check on him just as he stumbled backwards into the swimming pool. LUCKILY, my dad was right there to fish him out. I think we will start swimming lessons this year. Poor Lincoln, he got embarrassed and upset when everyone came over to see if he was okay and starting talking about it. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of Lincoln soaking wet.

Lincoln-isms

Look at that face...you can tell his is full of mischief!

Lincoln: "Daddy's Batman."
Me: Really, who are you?
Lincoln: "I'm Spiderman."
Me: "Well, if you are Spiderman, and Daddy is Batman, then who am I?"
Lincoln: "Hmm.......you're pretty."

If you haven't guessed, Lincoln's new "thing" is Spiderman, he jumps around and squirts "webs" out of his wrist just like Spiderman. I took Lincoln on a date the other night and we found a pair of Spiderman jammies, which greatly have enhanced his Spiderman moves and obsession.
Me: Goodnight, Lincoln, I love you.
Lincoln: No, Mommy, say "Goodnight SpidermanLincoln!
Me: Goodnight SpidermanLincoln.
Lincoln "Thank you"

Shawn taught Lincoln his middle name earlier this month and he goes around cheering for himself, I am ThomasLincoln Jensen....we try to explain that it is Lincoln Thomas Jensen, and that Thomas is his middle name. Lincoln's response is : I'm ThomasLincolnThomas Jensen. Now with the Spiderman kick his name is "SpidermanThomasLincolnThomas Jensen....move over John Jacob Jinglehimmer Shcmidt!

Shawn and Lincoln were in the kitchen having breakfast and Shawn burped. Lincoln said "I excuse you Daddy."

Blue Airplane

My brother James watched TV the exact same way; wide eye, mouth hanging open, I am not sure what he is watching, but obviously it is very intense!

These 2 pictures are my new favorites of Lincoln.

Shawn has been out of town on business trips this month and Lincoln has really enjoyed going to the airport to pick him up. In fact he packed his "back back" every day and would tell me how he needed to go to the airport and that he was going on a blue airplane to Washington because he had work to do. I have really enjoyed watching him pack and listening to his plans for taking the blue airplane.

Friday night when we went to pick up Shawn, Lincoln kept telling me "Thank you for taking me to the airport, I have to go to work". Well when we got to the airport there was a line of people standing there and Lincoln told me that he needed to get out. I told him to wait until we got around to the north side because that is where Daddy was. When we pulled around he thanked me again and told me he could go in the "that" door. We pulled over and parked to get Shawn and Lincoln HONESTLY thought he was getting out to go inside, when we pulled away from the curb, he got very upset and was crying telling us about how he needed to go on the blue airplane and had to go to work. I felt bad that he was so upset about it, but it was so cute.

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!