Great Thanksgiving Vacation

We really needed a week away....and what a week it was!! We had a great time at mom's (Nana's). We had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with tons of yummy desserts!! Logan helped make some of the desserts and he helped Nana make a breakfast bread too! We went to the beach on Friday and got to catch up with my cousin Carrie and her family. She has two kids Emily (almost 8) and Jake (almost 5). The kids had a blast playing in the sand and the Gulf! Matt loves the beach we went to because it is known for sharks teeth. Mom and Matt did some digging and came home with a ton of beautiful teeth! Nana has a pool and a hot tub at her house, so Logan was all set. Lincoln even got into the pool a couple of times. It was a great Thanksgiving and a wonderful trip to Florida!

Lincoln and I have been working on this one for a couple of weeks now.......

4 Wheeler Ride

Logan is really getting good at this big brother thing. He had a really good time riding Lincoln around on the 4 wheeler. He said that Lincoln could stay in the bucket "As long as he wants". He went slow when he needed to and kept turning around checking on him. I'm sure that going that slow was a bit boring to the kid who has been riding that thing for 3 years...but he was really good about going slow for Linc.

Pulling up!

Lincoln is now pulling himself up!! YAY!!! He is funny though...he will only pull up if he can benifit in some way from it. He won't just do it because he can. There has to be something there for him to grab! I'm jut excited that he is up on his feet. Next stop...WALKING!!!

Racing Lincoln

Lincoln loves to race us to his toys!! He gets so excited, I think, at the sight of others crawling that he cracks up!! He can ometimes hardly crawl because he is laughing so hard!! I love this age!!

Lincoln the Explorer

This one is going to keep me sooooo busy!! He is pulling up to his knees onto everything and not everything wants him to do that!!! Like this chair for instance!! The best part....he gets his head bumped and things fall on him and he continues on without a sound! This is going to be the kid who comes inside after playing outside for awhile, comes to me very calmly and says "Mom, I think we need to go to the emergency room!" while he has a tree limb sticking through his middle!

Riding a two-wheeler!

Logan just rode his bike without training wheels for the first time yesterday!! He is so funny with stuff like this...Matt and I have been trying to get him to take the trainers off for about four months and he would have none of it. Then yesterday it was suggested again and he said "OK". Just like that. So off they came and off he went!! He didn't fall at all and really trusted himself pretty well. He and Matt went for a ride around the block last night and are planning a "Big Bikeride" this morning!! Logan is very excited and totally proud of himself! We feel the same way!

Hurray for Halloween!!

This year was really fun! Logan decided that he wanted to be the Blue Reverse UNO card for Halloween right around the beginning of September...which is good because it took me about that long to make the damn thing!! He really had a good time this year going house to house! He has been known, in the past, to be ready to go home after about 3 houses. This year we made it all around our side of base housing and he had a great time. Everybody loved his costume. We were getting compliments all night! You could see the pride on Logan's face every time someone told him they liked his costume. Especially when kids he didn't know were telling him how cool it was!! Lincoln couldn't have cared less about the whole thing. I carried him most of the time and he just watched all the kids running around like crazy people...he had no idea what all the fuss was about! They looked super cute though and it was a successful night!