October festivities

We have been having so much fun recently.  The weather has been perfect to me. I really love fall. Lincoln and I have been spending lots of quality time together. 

Here we are at the zoo! 

This polar bear just pushes off the glasses and back strokes, flips under water and pops back up at the glass. It's pretty dang incredible! 

Lincoln loves the giraffes. He had the most cheesy joyful smile on his face, practically the entire time! 

Aunt emi came with us to the children's museum!  They played on a mini-mini grand piano. 

Precious. I can only handle that place for an hour before I'm exhausted. 2 floors packed with dirty crazy children Everywhere. I feel like I'm just running damage control the entire time! Lincoln is still learning to share :) 

Kalob used to be a reading tutor for children back in high school. He is starting linc early. Aside from just pointing out pictures. Lincoln now points to specific letters and tries to guess which ones they are. The letters he says most are the ones in TRUCK. He pretends to read to us a lot, sometimes he won't even let us read to him at bedtime. He takes the book, hops off our laps and reads it to himself. He is very into copying what we are doing.....

Perfect example- tonight, kalob was looking at his computer on the floor. Lincoln runs and gets "his" iPad and plops down right next to him. He kept getting closer and closer til their legs were touching. He wants to be just like dad.  It was sooo cute! he was beaming. 

We try to limit his iPad usage to the morning block of time, when the parentals are still sleepy.  he will play games quietly between us. honestly though, he has learned so many words from that thing.  He says random words sometimes, out of no where, which we haven't even worked on yet. Example, cub, arc, ant, bee, dot.... 

he's been practicing shapes, colors, household items, as well as animals. he was able to point out 4 colors correctly today! Purple, yellow, green, and red. He also can do puzzles which I feel are advanced for him. it's incredible not only does he know how to swipe, open each game, and push the home button when he wants another, how to open the videos app, get Mickey Mouse club house, and turn up the volume, press play and pause,,, but he knows how to screen grab as well. he's not even 2 people! Technology babies!!  He does cry for "pado" too much for our liking, hence trying to limit it, but It does come in handy for car trips and trying to do the dishes without him hugging my butt . 

If he could, he would play outside all day. this was today, but it started raining soon after. His hopes were dashed :( but he got to fingerpaint instead! so I guess it turned out alright for him. I already have a second post in the works of fun things we've been doing.  This month has just been great to us!