Lincoln's One month Check up

We had Lincoln's one month check up last week and the doctor said that Lincoln is doing really good. He weighed 9lbs 12oz and 22 inches long! He is in the 25 percentile now for his height and weight. His head is 14 3/4 inches around. I was so proud of him. Since having to supplement him with formula because his jaundice was bad and then finding out he had a little lactose intolerance it was a struggle for him to gain weight but a week and a half before the month check up I stopped giving him formula or his lactose pills and he still gained lots of weight!
Lincoln is doing really well and putting on the baby fat by the day it seems. We are working on him sleeping at night on his back instead or in his boppy pillow. Its going ok, not great but ok. Lincoln also is starting to smile more often and smiled at me for quite a while for such a little guy last night. It was so fun to see him express happiness. I can't wait for him to start smiling and giggling all the time.
Motherhood is the best thing ever!

Parent's Came to Visit

So April 15th my parents were able to come and visit for Lincoln's blessing (which was on Easter) and they stayed for 10 days or so. While they were here we mostly just sat on the couch at my house and talked (fun I know). But really my dad wasn't able to take time off work and neither was Brian so my Mom and I did a lot of chatting and working on a project/present for Laura....its a secret so I can't say what it is but it was a lot of fun. Besides just laying around my house we did manage to break the boys away from work for a little while and did a few fun things.

Grandparents seeing their grandson for the first time ;)

One day my parents went up for a short flight with Brian and I am so proud of my mom for going up even when she was scared and she didn't have her motion sickness patch on. Good job Mom!!!

After that Brian took my dad out to the mine to see it and Brian let him fly once they got off the ground and he really loved the whole thing.

The other fun thing we did was going to the natural hot springs that is an hour outside of town. It was really fun. I had always heard of how awesome this place was from all the locals and Brian had been there once so we just had to go. Unfortunately I didn't have a suit here in Fairbanks cuz we left our summer stuff in Wasilla. So I was just going to go in a tank and short but when we got there they said they rent suits for free....totally gross right. Well they looked and smelt really clean so I figured that would be better than long baggy basketball shorts and a gross work out tank from when I was 16. So I rented one and looked like an old lady instead.

Brian playing with Lincoln at the hot springs.

Anyways....The day before my Parents left it was Easter Sunday and we were able to bless Lincoln. I was totally late to church because I was trying to get Lincoln ready and I wanted to feed him enough so he would sleep through the blessing. Then on the way to church my dress strap broke when I was getting in the car. Thank goodness my mom had a safety pin holding her shirt together that she took out and fixed my strap. Thanks mom for giving up your outfit problem to fix mine. love you! So as soon as we finally got to church I sat down and took Lincoln out of his car seat and right then they announced that Lincoln would now be blessed. So I handed Lincoln over to Brian and then he received a wonderful blessing from his father. I think he will be a very good leader with a strong testimony in the gospel. :)

The men that blessed little Lincoln

Grandma and Grandpa Baker

Grandma and Grandpa Harry

The new Bakers

We really enjoyed having my parents here and can't wait till we see them again!