Loving our Lincoln

Blurry but I love it.

Lincoln is a creative boy these days. He loves play dough, painting, markers and crayons, playing with puffs and pipe cleaners, and we just got him some flash cards to practice numbers and letters. he blows us away with his comprehension. I can't believe he will be 2 in March! here's a peak into his life as of late 

Here we took egg carton( we bought a case at SAMs club, so he has Lots of egg crate to play with) I cut it up and had him paint the "flowers". Then I glued a button in the center and hot glued a pipe cleaner stem onto the base . The results were awesome, and his grandma really appreciated her flowers for her birthday :) 

he was really proud of them; he dumped her gift bag out, he was so eager to give them to her. 

Pushing puffs through a water bottle top. 

Playing spaghetti! I gave him a bowl and some tongs, but they are in motion in this picture, they disappeared. 

Playing with his locks and latches board.

Playing hamburger. It's the strangest game. But this happens daily. He says he's the meat and the cushions are bun. 

It doesn't even matter if you're sleeping on the couch either :)

Oh you know, just riding a buffalo. 

And lastly helping dad work on the car. He has a great personality and he brings so much joy to our lives. we love our Lincoln! 

Science nerd alert

We visited our local planetarium recently! It's right up Kalobs alley, and I know Lincoln will soon follow in his footstep to love all things science/technology/space. In the picture above, they created their own mini tornado. 

Blowing the clouds. ( aka caldron) this was definitely Lincoln's favorite part.

Touching a plasma ball. I think that's what they are called. 

Looking into a microscope.  it was really neat and simple. You couldn't spend hours there, which is good, because a 20 month old has an attention span of like 3 minutes.  they have an incredible gift store filled with everything a curious little scientist could want. Grow your own rocks crystals, dinosaur excavation kits, solar system mobiles,,, you name it, they have it. I wanted to buy everything, for kalob actually :) for them to enjoy together. I think I'll be hitting it up before Christmas! Can't believe it's coming so soon! 

Wowza

Wowzas! I have so much back tracking to do! how did I get so behind!  So this is just going to be a bunch of pictures! Prepare yourself.  

Riding a straw rocking pony. 

Went to the circus! 

Lincoln and his cousin Charleigh adoring eachother. Much like how he was when his cousins came to visit. Gazing into their eyes. 

Before and after on my beautiful Molly j. 

Sister in laws pretty hair. 

My sisters awesome ombré hair. Before I was a mommy, I did hair in a salon, incase I never said that before in this blog. hair is a love in my life, but nothing trumps mommihood. I do hair on the side, occasionally :) 

Me! Pretending to have bangs like my sister. Laugh. Laugh a lot. I did. 

the imagine dragons concert. we heard Clint's song Cha Ching preformed live. It was really cool and kinda sad too. Wish Clint would be given the credit he deserves,,,,and the cash. Everyone! Shameless plug right here. Find a way and buy imagine dragon's album with "Cha Ching(till we grow older) " on it.  The United States released album doesn't have it, it's considered a spotify special song, something like that. they play it live on tour though.  Lets just face the facts, you're not getting the whole experience if the album doesn't have the song on it. I wish I could play the video of it live here, but you can hear me screeching "it's your song! It's your song" over the music :) how embarrassing. people in the arena knew he wrote the music for it and were blowing up Kalobs phone saying "hey didn't your brother-in-law write this song!? " 

These are balloons full of money at our year end party. I won a $50 gift card to target, and hustled my butt off for 10 singles when those balloons fell upon us. it was crazy town, a lot of jabbing and scratching happened. but ten bucks is worth losing an eye over, ya? 

Umm? Naked butt, tv watching.  By the way, rant coming.  Who watches caillou? Man I hate that show.  He's supposed to be four, yet he's bald as a baby. and he is such a whiner, teaches kids to complain. Oh and another one Sid the science kid. I feel like the characters might be special needs. ( I have no issue with special needs cartoon characters or people.)  Though, they don't ever say that. They are just drawn in a very funny way that it is subjective. I guess if you watch it, you would know what I mean. 

Ok that's all I can get through tonight! 

The end of October.

Dun dun dun. The title just sounded ominous. you know how I love holidays, and kalob doesn't? Well, I don't know why I expected anything different. 

The couple days prior to Halloween were great, I'll admit that, but the day of...total letdown. 

 Here we are pretending to bubble bubble toil and trouble over a witches caldron. ( it's really just a cloud machine, but it was fun nonetheless.)

We carved our pumpkins. 

Look at those wrinkles I'm creating on my brow! man, I'll be 30 in no time, those frown lines are telling me. 

Cheeser! unfortunately I forgot to take a finished picture! Shame on me! I didn't have any tea lights; I asked kalob to pick up some, guess what he bought. real candles, in glass cups, Like glade. " it was cheaper to buy 2 of those, than buy a pack of ten tea lights" So our jack-o-lanterns gave off the smell of passion fruit party and oatmeal cookie!   

Our little leaguer loved going trick or treating at the Hogle zoo, even if this picture reads otherwise:)  they had tons of little candy stations, my favorite though was the Got Milk booth. They had a costumed cow and were giving out cold string cheese. Thoughtful huh! Frito lay was passing out Doritos. I just thought it was neat that vendors brought snacks instead of candy. well the vendor with the giant strawberry was whole foods, and Lincoln was terrified. I'm a mean mommy for taking the picture, but it was too good. There were zombies and devils but no, my kid cries over a fruit. 

  luckily, we did take him trick or treating here at the zoo a couple days in advance because my Halloween plans didn't go how I imagined. 

The plan was to go make dinner in logan at my moms. Then go trick or treating in her neighborhood. We live on a college campus in a crappy apartment, I didn't think he'd get the experience I was wanting here. Well...kalob then tells me that he must replace a water heater for someone. someone we love, and I'm not upset that he did it. but dissapointed that kalob did not make it back intime to go trick or treating. I've been married to him for almost 7 years, it's just how he is. Someone needs him, he's there, sharing his talents. how could he let them boil water to take a bath a day longer. I get that.  I'm selfish sometimes, I just wanted to take our baby door to door. I wanted to here him say trick or treat and thank you in his sweet little voice. Instead I made my Grammie duffel's vegetable beef soup and passed out candy. At least linc is too young to know what he was missing. next year, it's happening! maybe I'll insist kalob dress up in a family matchy matchy costume to make up for his lack of enthusiasm this year. 

Petting zoo and the fair

This is just so weird. I feel like some of my posts are missing, or I'm just having the strangest déjà vu, like I've written these before!  We came to LA as soon as we got home for the summer just for like a 2 day drop in. Kalob woke up in the morning and said " I want to see my family" It had been four months since, so I understood him wanting to go. We crammed our clothes into a duffel bag and drove. 

 Not only was it fun to be with family, but it was even more fun to go to the LA fair with them too. Lincoln had the most fun I think. Here he is at the petting zoo. 

One of the goats came up and bit my shirt through the gate! Thankfully it didn't leave a hole! Goats really will eat anything! 

Lincoln cried when it was time to leave the baby animals.  

 The next day we stopped in Bakersfield to see my side of the family and then we headed back home. Like I said, quick trip! 

when we got back to Utah, to Kalob's delight, the Utah state fair was going on. He Loves going to fairs. me, not so much, I hate meandering. anyways, this fair had an incredible kids section, where you can learn everything that goes on at a farm. where your food begins and how it gets to your table. so I'll let Lincoln show you :) 

He didn't want a picture, he wanted to get started! he's got his basket and apron.

Riding his tractor to the fields. 

Picking produce ( he didn't want to plant the seeds, he's choosy)  he fed the chickens corn kernels and then stole their eggs. good ol bait and switch. 

then he brushed a sheep, and pretended to sheer it. 

Then he took his wool to market to sell. He sold it for cash money and then went to a market and bought a rice crispy treat! it was the cutest and most fun simulation I've ever went through with him.  Good on you Utah state fair! 

Nice fake smile, goober face!