This Baby Stands Alone

Lincoln started doing something new this weekend:


As you can see, getting him to stand all by himself still needs a little prompting, but our baby is well on his way to walking!!


We had a really fun Memorial Day weekend. On Friday, Lincoln took his first trip to the zoo with Jennifer, Stacy, and Gabe. It's been years since I've been to a zoo, and it was a lot of fun. Lincoln saw elephants and even tried to pet a goat!
















We did a lot of housework this weekend, and interspersed it with some fun things. We went to the Farmer's Market on Saturday morning, had dinner with Gabe's family on Sunday, and even went to a block party that same evening.


On Monday we went to the mall, and discovered when we got there that we had forgotton the stroller. So instead of sitting in a boring stroller while we shopped, Lincoln got to crawl around, and even helped me snap this photo in Macy's:












Lincoln crawls around really fast, so I was very happy when he discovered these mirrors and decided to flirt with the cute baby.

Iconoclast Baby

Lincoln's turning out to be quite the iconoclast baby! For the past couple of weeks he's been teething again - but being the creative type, he's decided not to go about this process in the ordinary fashion. Instead of getting the top two front teeth (which is the "normal" progression from the bottom front teeth), he's gotten one top front tooth and one top side tooth (I think it's called incisor?). It's given him a hip assymetrical look that's totally in fashion these days. We're hoping he gets the other two teeth soon to complete the set.

So far all attempts to photograph the new pearlies have failed, but I will try to get a picture so you can see what I'm talking about.

Spring Cleaning

For the past two weeks, Scott and I have been "spring" cleaning. We got some water in our basement a couple of weeks ago, and figured that would be a good excuse to clean out all of the boxes and stored stuff we have down there. It's amazing how much stuff we pulled out to throw away. To be honest, Scott has been doing most of the basement work since we learned early on that it wasn't very smart to have Lincoln crawling around down there. To do my part, I cleaned my closet and remved a couple boxes worth of clothes to give away.

As you can see, Lincoln has not been helping very much with the effort. We've discovered a couple of foods that he likes besides crackers - Sweet potatos (which are artfull displayed on his face in the photo), bananas, and squash are his favorites.

Mother's Day Memoir

I celebrated my very first mother's day last weekend. Lincoln made me pancakes for breakfast (Scott had to help quite a bit), and we grilled pork chops for dinner. Overall a pretty relaxing day for me - although Scott was pretty busy. He managed to mow the lawn *and* play in an ultimate tourniment that day while Lincoln and I hung out at the house. Lincoln and I have been bonding a lot the last few days, since Miss Lucy took a vacation day yesterday.

Lincoln's new obsession is putting things inside other things - right now he's taking everything out of the diaper bag and occassionally putting things back in (as you can see in the photos). He loves putting his smaller toys inside boxes and then taking them out again. I've recruited cat food dishes (clean ones!), coffee containers, rubbermaid boxes, and tupperware containers to help him out.

Skillz

Lincoln was so impressed with Scott's half-marathon time last weekend, he decided to show us some new mad skillz. At Grandma and Granpa Hauner's house Lincoln showed us that he can now climb stairs (and climb them quickly, over and over again!), and that he can also do this:



Way to go kiddo!

Race Day!

This has been a very exciting couple of weeks! Most recently, Scott finished the Lincoln half-marathon in a very nice 1 hour 37 minutes. That's him crossing the finish line with the black shirt - gun time was 1 hour 39 minutes. It was rainy that morning, which (according to Scott) made for great running, but unfortunately was not good weather for a stroller. Lincoln stayed with grandma and grandpa during the race, and celebrated with daddy afterwards and tried on his finisher medal.

























Also, here are the promised photos from last week's Trolley Run. Lincoln really enjoyed the run, and even took the time to "check the equipment" before the race began with his new buddy Cade. Joni, Jayne, and Grandma King also walked the Trolley Run with us and we all had a good time!

Finals!

We had a fabulous weekend last weekend - what with Mary's baby shower, Amari's birthday party, and the Trolley Run (photos should be up shortly) but...what I'm really excited about this week is......FINALS!

I gave my final exam on Monday, and actually got them all graded yesterday. Once I turn in grades tomorrow, I am done for the semester! Now I just have to finish my dissertation. It funny that when you become a professor, all of the stress of finals goes on *after* the exam, when you're struggling to get everything graded by the end of the week.

I am currently looking for adjunct teaching positions for next fall, so if you happen to know of a local college or community college looking for Economics instructors, please let me know...I have to control my ego for now, since I recently reviewed my student evaluations from last semester and one student's comments consisted of "Bravo!" What can I say?