Just a few fun Pictures

I thought he was sleeping


Just doing some laundry

The puppies

Loungin on a Saturday Morning

Sleep

Lincoln is slowly sleeping longer and longer at night. I use to feed him at 9pm and then he would wake again at midnight for a feeding. Starting last week he began sleeping through the midnight feeding and waking around 2am. A few nights he has slept until 3am and on Tuesday night he slept through the night until 5am. It was amazing! I did wake up very disoriented when I heard him crying and looked at the clock to see that it was 5am. I couldn't remember if I had already fed him or not. It is crazy how your mind works or doesn't work when you are awakened in the middle of the night. He has only slept through the night that one time, but the 2 or 3am is a nice treat. I go to bed around 10 so that gives me a solid chunk of sleep. Eli gives him a bottle at 9 and then puts him to bed after that. He does a great job of putting himself to sleep. He usually goes right back down after I feed him at 2 and then wakes again at 6 or 6:30 for another feeding. He is doing pretty good with his naps during the day. It is so funny to me that when are young you are suppose to sleep and you don't want to and then when you are older you really want to and no one will let you.

Parachute Dress

My mom's mom (granny lady) made a dress out of my grandpa's parachute from World War II. She made it for their first born, my aunt Glenna. Each of the kids have had their picture taken in it, boy's and girls. Here is Lincoln in the parachute dress. I put his Harley onesie on underneath so he still felt like a man! As you can see by his expression he was not thrilled about wearing a dress. He just really loves his grandma and wanted to please her. I really wish that my granny lady could have seen him in it. We miss you granny lady, but we know you are watching him from Heaven.

Sunday brunch with Aunt Kari

We met Aunt Kari for lunch after Church at the Wash Park Grill. They have a fabulous Sunday brunch buffet. We enjoyed a long visit. Lincoln slept through the whole lunch but he woke up just long enough to get a picture take with his aunt Kari.

Ladies Tea and Dinner with Friends

I took Lincoln to the annual tea at Church. I was asked to host a table again this year. I decorated the table but my friend Amy hosted so I could tend to Lincoln. I was going to leave him home with Eli for the day but it would have lasted through two feedings so I decided it was just easier to take him and step away to feed him. He had a rough day though so it made the tea a little less enjoyable than I had hoped. He blew through two diapers and ruined his adorable outfit before the tea even started. He slept through most of the tea as long as he was being held. We had to rush to clean up the table and head home because we were having dinner guests.

Nick, Kara and their little guy Logan came over for dinner. Eli made a gourmet meal of fajitas and margaritas. We had a great time talking and laughing. Logan is 20 months old and has a full vocabulary. He calls his pacifier a geek. Logan had a very hard time with Nick holding Lincoln. He was crying big tears and saying "daddy...daddy." Kara is pregnant with their second so it is good that Logan is in a daddy phase. We put the boys to bed around 9:30 and hung out until they headed home at 11:30. They brought Logans pac and play and he went right down in our guest room. Eli and I admired them for just bringing his pj's, pac and play and going with the flow.

More Visitors

The Shaw family and Patty came over to meet Lincoln. We had a nice long visit and enjoyed watching Emma with the baby. Emma just turned two but she did a great job holding him. It is so amazing to me how instinctual it is for little girls to love and want to hold babies.

Growing Strong

Lincoln is one month old today. Wow how time flies! He is growing just as he should be. The Dr checked him out and did a weight check. He said that he is progressing well and to keep doing what I am doing. I told him that I thought he might be fighting off a flu bug because I had a touch of it over the weekend. I wasn't sure if it was the flu or food poisoning but I threw up for two days along with a fever and cold chills. He has been sleeping longer than normal at night, which is great for me but concerns me a little and he is hard to console which is not like him. He has had a few diarrhea diapers. I took his temp this morning and it was 97.3 so he seems to be fine. The Dr said that breast milk was the best thing for him and that he would be able to fight it off in just a few days.

Lincoln is definitely a Frick. He was fussy on the way to the Dr and when we first got there but as soon as I stripped him down for his weigh in he was as happy as can be. He loves to be naked!

Birth 7lbs 9oz
left the hospital 7lbs 7oz
2 day old Dr. Appt 7lbs 4.5oz
5 day old weigh in 7lbs 7oz
16 days old at nursing class 8lbs 7.2oz
One month at Dr 9lbs 7oz, 22 inches long and a 37cm head circumference

The Dr gave me all of the percentages but he didn't write them down and I can't remember them.

4-23-08 Weigh in at Grandma's office 10lbs 7.5 oz
5-8-08 Weigh in at 2month appointment 11lbs 5oz

Mia and Papa meet Lincoln

Eli's parents arrived at our house on Saturday March 29th at around 1pm. They drove 26 hours straight through from Navarre Florida to meet their grandson. They were overjoyed to say the least to finally hold him in their arms. They of course came baring gifts for Lincoln and for Eli and I. It was a very nice visit. We spent most of our time at home just enjoying each other. We watched some movies, went on some walks, did a little shopping and made lumpias (a type of egg roll.) On Tuesday Eli had to go into the office to do payroll so David went to the Rocky Mountain news to visit his old coworkers and Norma and I went down to Castle Rock to visit an old friend of hers that she worked with at Rock Ridge Elementary. We also stopped by the outlet mall. Ryan, Emily and the kids came over for dinner on Wednesday night. We had a video conference call with Evan. Technology is so cool. We were all able to talk and see one another. Even little Lola who is only 2 years old understood that she was talking into the camera to Evan who was on the other end.
Lincoln loved having them here. He was catered to 24/7. Someone was always talking to him, holding him and playing with him. Norma is a natural teacher and loves child development so she had a lot of fun watching him focus in on things. She had him focusing on her hand for a solid 10 minutes and he began to mimic her hand movements with his own hand. It was amazing! Mia was able to give Lincoln his very first bottle. The books said to wait until he was 3 to 4 weeks old before introducing a bottle, to make sure that they get breast feeding down first. We gave him a bottle every night for his 9pm feeding. There visit was at the perfect time so they could enjoy giving him his first bottle.
I was very pampered while they were here as well. I was fighting off a cold when they first arrived and with their help I was able to go back to bed in the morning and take naps. I was able to fight off the cold quickly with the extra rest. My house was always clean and the laundry was always done. It was like having a maid, nanny and chef all in one couple! Eli got a little break as well because David enjoys cooking which is where Eli gets his joy of cooking from.

They headed back to Florida on Saturday morning around 10am. It was a very hard goodbye because we don't' know when we will see them again. Eli and I try to make a trip to Florida once a year, but we are not sure when we will make it out there. Money is going to be a little bit tighter now that we are living on one income. We heard from them on Sunday when they arrived home. They made the drive straight through again. The trip cost them $313.00 total in gas in their diesel VW bug. Plane tickets right now are $1,000 a piece because it is spring break there.

Thank you Mia and Pape for driving all that way to see us and for the lovely gifts and pampering. We love you very much and miss you tons!