When we first brought Jilli home Lincoln was only interested in her when she cried, he would run over to her and just stare. He was in LOVE. He would kiss on her and hold her and smile at her and talk to her. It was all very very sweet and I thought I had it made. Well Grandma went home after a couple of days and about a week later Daddy (Brad, don't worry folks I don't refer to Brad as Daddy) went back to work and all the sudden jealousy reared its ugly head, well to be honest it hasn't been so ugly just really cute and funny. One day as I was laying out a blanket to swaddle Jillian, Lincoln jumped on the blanket and would not get off, he was rolling around wrapping himself up. So I, being the great mom that I am, said "just a minute let me wrap up Jilli then I will wrap you up." So I wrapped her and grabbed a bigger blanket and laid it down then wrapped him. Low and behold he laid there until he fell asleep. Now I'm no miracle worker

but this seemed like a miracle to me, so for about a week when nap time or bed time would roll around I would swaddle my 35 pound 17 month old and lay him in his crib where he promptly fell asleep. This technique did not work when we visited Grandma, although it did get some laughs from Grandma and Nicole as they watched me carry him down stairs, so we stopped doing it. But I swear to you it was working at home. In the first pic Lincoln is leaning in to kiss Jilli.


Also I pulled a boogie out of Jilli's nose and it had a flying ant in it. Poor baby.

Lincoln has mastered the back sliding door. He can open it and close it when ever he wants, and he is learning how to unlock it. When Brad came home from work for lunch yesterday he walked in the front door and saw Lincoln open the back door and let Delialah in, then close the back door. Lincoln then turned around got a shocked/I'm caught look on his face, then ran after Delialah yelling OUT OUT OUT! Brad asks all the time how I keep Lincoln from doing naughty things all day long, and the truth is I don't. I just don't tell Brad about all the naughty things he does so I don't seem like such a bad parent!

Lincoln also has a weird shoe fetish, he really likes to put on Brad's shoes and walk around the house, the thing about this is he can wear Brad's shoes and really walk around in them! I recenly caught him standing outside at the back fence wearing Brads shoes and a diaper.

Ok so I know it's been about a year, but I got really busy. Quick update and then I'm going to blog like I never left! Jillian was born, Lincoln is big, that's about it.

So my mom and sister and nephews have been out and we have been having fun! We spent all day yesterday at Lagoon, the kids loved the rides and it's weird how when your a parent you really just want to watch your kids have fun, although I don't really think Jilli was that into it being just 8 weeks and all. We did have one bathroom incident though, my mom took Lincoln to have a diaper change and accidentally took one of Jilli's diapers in with her instead of Lincolns (this is a mistake she has made before, how I will never know Lincolns diapers are the same size as Jilli) anyways in the 1 minute it took for her to take him back out of the bathroom to get the right diaper Lincoln pee'd himself. So while Grandma washed Lincoln's legs off in the sink and I washed his shorts out, some old bag starts in on how "this is how diseases are spread" and "every one's going to get sick". I let her have one but when she started in a second time I looked right at her and said "chill ya old bag" she was a little shocked that I was so honest, but really what is the difference in cleaning pee off of a baby's leg, and pee off your hands. I guess I really just don't understand why people chose to talk before they think, would she have rather had us leave him uncleaned and put him on rides so her grand kids could then sit in his pee!

Moving on, it's now time for a little about Jilli. She is cute, and funny. I've never meet another baby who doesn't like being held as much as her! She is very content to be laid down and left alone, and she never stops wiggling. Jilli's got a really strong neck and has been holding her head up since the day she was born. It's really funny to watch Brad with her, at first Brad was really scared to hold her, he kept saying she was too little. Which compared to Lincoln she is really tiny. I'm so glad we have Jilli in our family now, it's really been nice, and not nearly as hard as I thought it would be.