ABC's...

Hello there everyone! We are working on our ABC's at our house! Lincoln has the alphabet down and has for probably a good year now or maybe longer! He actually sings it all the time! We started working on flash cards the last few days trying to recognize them now! He actually knew more of them than I thought he would! He still gets a few confused, but the ones he does, I see why he does, they do look similar! I thought since he recognizes so many of them that he might start recognizing words too if he saw them, so we did a little project today! He has a pretty photographic memory, remembering things I never thought seeing only once he would, but he does! So here is our letter project we did today...

(May be a little blurry, I took it with my phone!)

We (or I) cut out pictures from magazines and a few from online that start with the letter A! And then I helped him tape them down on the paper and then I wrote the word for him to see all spelled out! He did a great job with it! He's able to recognize the uppercase and the lowercase of most of his letters and that is so exciting! Preschool ...here we come!!! :)

Children's Museum with Courtney & Pierce...

Today we went to the CMOM for some fun times with our friends, Courtney & Pierce! It was a great time! We actually got to visit while the boys played together! I think the biggest hit of the day was fishing in the fishin' hole for sure! Both boys are obsessed with sea critters! Especially sharks and whales!

Family Day at the Zoo...

The weather was beautiful on Saturday and the first part of Sunday, so Sunday we spent the morning at the zoo! The weather was so nice! Lincoln loves the zoo, probably one of his favorite places to go besides HOTELS ...those are his absolute favorites! (Told him he better be an athlete or rockstar if thats where he wants to sleep every night!)

Here are a few pictures from our day...

Got to see the elephants today, last two times they were inside or something!

It was a lazy day for the sea lions!


The polar bears were not there again :( Missed them last several times, whats up with that! Those are one of Linc's favorites!


Thumbs up to the Grizzlies ...just wish they would have gotten off the wall a little so I could have gotten a picture of them, too!

Meet Sesi the new baby Giraffe at the zoo! She was so cute!





After the zoo we had lunch at Jason's Deli! Lincoln was a little irritated with all my picture taking! This was him while trying to enjoy his ice cream :)

January and early February Pics...

Since you all mentioned you have missed my pictures ...here you go! I will post some of them from January and early February and will try harder to post more often! :)

Poppy's visit...

Teaching him how to play on his iTouch and how to give a thumbs up! :)


He sure loved having Poppy here for a few days! He was like Poppy's little shadow the whole time he was here!

Here are some from outside ...riding bikes, his tractor and playing dodge ball with Poppy!


Showing off his "Grrrr" face...


While Ash was in Europe for work he got to hop over to see his sister, Suzy and the kids for a couple of days in Ramallah! They were able to go to Jerusalem on that trip! Hopefully he will have time to upload all those pics soon for me to post! But I did get this one from Suzy of him with her, Mahdee. Hadi and Layah! They are growing up so fast!


While Ash was traveling for work, Lincoln and I of course hopped in the car and headed West to Texas! Here are some pics from our trip...

The first weekend we were there, Crystal and the kids came to visit for a night! The kids had a great, short visit!
Lincoln and Ethan playing on the porch...

Lincoln and Evan playing doctor/dress up...
We went to Fossil Rim (again)! Lincoln can't go to Ganny & Papa's without going there! I told my mom this year I was buying a membership because as many times in a year that we go, I need one! :) This time just Lincoln and I went! He felt all grown up sitting in the front seat! We even fed a giraffe through the sun-roof!

This first picture is just after the giraffe pulled his head back out of our sunroof! :) heehee!

It was so cold in Texas this trip, with very few warmer days, but on this day we took advantage of the warmer temps and headed to his favorite park there!

Porch Time and Trying To Roller Blade...




Fort Worth Science Museum, IMAX and the Fort Worth Stock Show with Papa...

It was Lincoln's first time at an IMAX and he loved it! We saw Animalopolis! Very cute!

As you can tell, Lincoln loves Dinosaurs!




Cowboy Lincoln at the Stock Show

We bought him this horn and had no idea the attention he was going to get from it! People would just stop, smile and clap! He wasn't just blowing it, it was like he was marching in a band or something! It was the most hilarious thing I've seen ...and so worth the $5! :) I wish we had put his hat on the ground, would have loved to seen how much money he could have made for it! :)



And we couldn't come home this trip without seeing a Tarleton State University basketball game! :) The girls were playing so we went to check them out! They played great and Lincoln had a blast! Not every college basketball game has a cowboy cheering section! :) Only in Texas!




And we were welcomed home with a great snowfall! We missed the ICE STORM because we were in Texas! :)

Here are a few from our day in the snow!