The last couple months

Well our dial-up internet has been nice on our budget but not so great for downloading pictures to my blog. I tried to download one picture of Lincoln and it took 35 minutes (not even kidding). So my only option is to make a collage of all our pictures of Lincoln from the last two months and post that. Alright, so now the update on our family.

Lincoln and I took a trip to Chicago to visit my parents and other the nightmarish airplane ride in which I got more than a few dirty looks from passengers, who did not appreciate my son's screaming, the trip was very successful. My parents got to spoil Lincoln like crazy (Mom made sure he ate whatever and whenever he wanted- resulting in a string of very diry diapers). We went to the Milwaukee County Zoo, which I highly recommend, and saw some cool animals up close and personal. I don't know who enjoyed it more, Lincoln or my parents who loved watching Lincoln's reaction to every single animal! I, of course, did not prepare adequately for the weather (it was 90deg in CA that same week) so when it snowed we were stuck with no jacket, no hat or mittens, and no real shoes!! Luckily my mother's very kind neighbor saw our predicament and dropped off some of her son's snow clothes for Lincoln to use. He is definately his father's son- he played in the snow for about 5minutes and then turned right back around to go inside the house- he was not going to just hang out in the cold!

Easter was a lot of fun this year as Lincoln got into dying eggs. We put him in an old t-shirt, set him up at the table with his cousins, and let him go to town (well, not really- I'm still a control freak...baby steps). But with a little help he dyed about 10 eggs and seemed really proud of himself. We got him all dressed for Easter Sunday and of course I forgot to take pictures. Make that two years in a row now that I have bought him a special outfit for easter and told Nate we would take cute spring pictures and not a single picture has been taken. He didn't even make it across the street to church without messing up his outfit. Nate insisted that he open his basket before church and somehow the little bugger snuck a chocolate egg when we weren't looking and proceeded to eat it while walking to church. When we got to the chapel and sat down I looked at Lincoln and there he was with a face and shirt covered in chocolate!! At least he enjoyed himself. That afternoon Lincoln got to participate in his first Easter Egg hunt with the Berrett girls, thanks to there very kind Grandma and Grandpa who invited us to their family's annual Easter brunch. We had such a great time and Lincoln actually understood that he was supposed to search for eggs and put them in his bag. It was rather fun to watch.
In not so great news, we learned this month that the class Nathan was supposed to take this summer has been blocked because of budget cuts at the university (gotta love CA's budget crisis!) and that puts him one class shy of graduating in Decemeber so it looks like we will be staying here in Fresno until next May. We were initially a little bummed about the change in plans but we are starting to see how this might work out better for us. Nathan will be home a lot more this summer and with a new baby on the way I'm excited that he will be home to help.

Nothing too exciting in baby news, I just keep getting bigger and bigger. McKinley is a mover and shaker- compared to Lincoln (who never moved) this girl is crazy!! We have definately decided on the name McKinley but are still going back and forth on the middle name, hopefully we will have it figured out before she comes into the world. We haven't done much to prepare for her arrival- mostly because I am exhausted. I have bought quite a few clothes and Mom and Dad enjoyed buying many new baby things while we were visiting. Right now I'm just trying to master chasing after my big boy while suffering through really strong Braxton Hicks contractions. My doctor said I can't lift anything over 20lbs, unfortunately he doesn't know that my son weighs 30lbs and I can't really go a day without lifting him at leasthalf a dozen times!

Ok- so that's it from us for the last couple months, I'm sure I left out a number of very important moments but it's late and I can't think of them right now. Now that I have figured out pictures I will post again soon!