Lincoln's first bike ride

We went on a family bike ride last week, and it was Lincoln's first ride in the bike trailer. We kept it short, and he did well. He is so mellow, even when he gradually slipped down and the straps were up by his head, he didn't fuss! And Landon happily shared "his" stroller with his brother-hooray.

Pumpkin Patch

Last Friday we joined several other moms and children from our church at a local pumpkin patch. Landon had fun pulling a wagon full of pumpkins and picking out two pumpkins, a big one for him, and a baby one for his "Lincoln brother" as he likes to call him. We finished off our morning field trip by heading to a local park that we hadn't visited yet, called Round Rock Memorial Park, where the round rock that this city was named after still resides in the creek. The children painted and decorated their pumpkins, and we had lunch. It was a nice start to our fall celebrations.

Visit from the Blackmans

My Uncle Gary, Aunt Glenda, and Cousin Hayley came out to Austin last week, and Hayley is living with us while she settles into life in Austin attending the Ballet Austin school as a trainee. We enjoyed our visit with Glenda and Gary, and the boys love having family around. Landon gets excited whenever we come home and Hayley's car is in the driveway. He says, "Mama, Hayley's car!" They blessed us by watching the boys twice while we went out on dates, and that was a real treat.

Here's the famous "Rock Band" shot. Uncle Gary was a superstar and got 100% on his first time playing the guitar. We were all impressed!

Uncle Gary with the boys.

Landon loved to play roll the ball with Aunt Glenda.

San Antonio

Last weekend we took my Aunt Glenda and my cousin Hayley down to San Antonio. We visited the river walk and the Alamo. It was Landon's 3rd trip to the river walk and Alamo, but Lincoln's first. We had a great time.

Landon in his big boy bed

Landon is moving up to a "big boy" bed. Here he is on his first night sleeping on the bottom bunk. Notice the Thomas the Tank Engine sheets and pillow- he's a huge fan and knows the names of all of the trains (and, by default, so do I!).

Lincoln is sitting up

Mark it on your calendars, folks! Aaron has been working with Lincoln on his core muscles, and today is the day that he sat up on his own for five good minutes (I took the pictures at the end of the session, so you can see he is worn out and almost folded over, but still in good spirits!). Hooray for Lincoln!

Halloween Preview

Auntie Jen has done it again...Jen has provided another great Halloween costume for Landon, and Lincoln gets in on the action this year too. Thanks, Jen! Introducing the Halloween 2008 edition of Landon the monkey, and Lincoln, his yummy banana.

And here Lincoln is as the sunflower from the Halloween 2006 Landon line, modeling with my cousin Hayley the costume that Aunt Glenda provided for Landon's first Halloween (the sunflower being one of my favorites and my kitchen and one bathroom theme).