Lincoln Safari: Healthy Families Play Together...

and then enjoy chocolate milkshakes at the UNL East Campus Dairy Store. Mmmmm...

Lincoln has some great community programs. We really enjoy the One Book One Lincoln program and discovered our favorite book with its 2005 selection, The Kite Runner. Last year, Lincoln Safari was implemented and encourages families to explore public parks. Will and I ventured out today to the Game & Parks Commission Park and then walked among the fragrant lilacs while enjoying our chocolate shake. Anybody who knows me knows I am highly addicted to ice cream - and it seems I now I have a partner in crime.

It is finally getting warm enough to put Will in short "jimmies" for bed. He looks so cute - he often confuses his hairbrush with his toothbrush.

Vintage Easter

Will enjoyed his first Easter in a power suit from 1983. It was orginally my brother's and my cousin Jeremy also wore it in the early 90's...now it was Will's turn. I've recently noticed that the "kids these days" are bringing 80's fashion back (I have no idea why - does that make me old?!)...so I guess that's makes Will a pretty hip one-year old. We slicked back his hair to complete the look - I thought he looked pretty dapper.

Some progress

Will started crawling (finally!) March 23rd. No practicing beyond rocking back and forth...he just got up on all fours and took off. He got a little Tonka truck walker for his birthday, so now he's walking around with that. He thinks he's so cool.

Happy First Birthday, Will!

Will turned one on the 4th of April. Where has this year gone?! We had a smashing party and managed to squeeze 18 friends and family in our little house. Will was so excited it was his birthday, he woke up at 3:30am Saturday and decided to only sleep a total of 2 hours the rest of the day. Needless to say, the birthday boy had quite a few meltdowns before his 9pm bedtime! The video shows his second attempt at the cake...he was pretty unsure about what it was and what he was supposed to do with it at the beginning.

Attack of the Will

Cousins!

My, what a difference 8 months makes. The first picture was taken on the 4th of July and the second one on Monday when Aunt Lisa and cousin Olivia came over to play. Will had a lot fun "attacking" Olivia while she tried to watch a movie - poor Olivia.





My baby is 11 months old today...he's still not crawling but somehow that does seem to stop him from getting into EVERYTHING he is not supposed to.

New Look-Alike

Thanks, Brittany, for alerting me to the fact my son looks like baby Jack from the Incredibles. I love the Incredibles...I don't know why I didn't notice it sooner. What do you think?





Let's just hope this isn't in his future...