My mom came to visit!

Since we took so many pictures, I'm doing them in segments. One thing, among many, that was great about her being here was that she helped Lincoln learn how to eat from a spoon so much better. He used to just stink at it but now he actually will open his mouth for it most of the time when I tap his top lip with it. For a first-time spoon feeder that is a great relief.
Lincoln learned to roll from his tummy to his back. He just leans his head over to one side and the rest of his body follows. I think he did this by accident the first time and then thought it was really cool and continued to do it. This has hindered his "tummy time", however, since whenever I put him on his stomach to get exercise, he just rolls to his back. I've tried to solve this by putting him on his stomach on the Boppy pillow, which has sides to it and comes around him to secure him in place. It kind of works, although it can make him a little too comfortable where he just lays his head down on it and stays there for awhile. I don't know how he'll ever learn how to crawl or even roll from his back to his stomach. But I'm not too anxious for him to be mobile...as long as he gets there eventually.

I love this face:

This outfit is one my mom got in Utah over Christmas break for him. It is an 18 month outfit...he is not even 7 months. What a chunk.

Are you calling me fat?

Something I really love about this age: he loves anything that makes noise and can be entertained by such things for long amounts of time. Example: tissue paper. Lincoln played with this piece for forever. I have a couple pictures where he got lost in it when it covered his face.

I had to put this one on even though it ended up a little fuzzy. It's from today (Easter) while eating rice cereal. We were trying so hard to get him to smile for the camera and this is the only one we were able to get.

We had a pretty relaxed Easter. After church we took a drive down the coast while Lincoln slept. We didn't fix a big meal (my dinner was a spinach smoothie and veggie chips) but instead just did a little of this and a little of that. I wish we could have had time with Lincoln's grandparents, aunts, uncles and maybe even cousins, but that is just how it goes I guess. The sunlight is getting to the awesome phase...it comes up around 6 a.m and goes down somewhere close to 10 p.m. I just love Alaska summers! We are looking forward to having Matthias's brother and his wife, George and Wendy, come visit in a few weeks. More pictures from my mom's visit coming soon...