Lincoln

Lately Lincoln is so full of personality (more so than normal)...its like he entered some new stage of development. He can ask why until I totally run out of answers, he gets embarrassed and shy around new adults, he LOVES to play with little kids his age (or a little older which is even better). But, with all this "grown-up" attitude also comes some extra mommy clingy-ness which is hard when you're the middle child :( We've been doing our best, but I'll be glad when he gets some of his easy-going confidence back!

In addition, he has had some pretty bad boo-boos lately, but oh my gosh this kid is TOUGH! He hardly cries at all and as long as something can quickly change the subject he goes on like nothing has happened. He tore up his knee pretty bad last weekend and didn't say anything about it until it was time to take his pants off for bath...then he says, "be careful of my boo boo mom." I didn't know he had a boo-boo so you can imagine my surprise when I found this:

 

and then thursday after picking avery up from school we had to run past Target on our way home...getting out of the car Ave accidentally shut Lincoln's fingers in the car door (and the door latched!) poor guy started crying I opened the door as quick as I could but thought for sure that we would be on our way to the hospital...nope, not for Lincoln...a couple of kisses and the promise of a treat at the checkout and he wiped away his tears and was ready to go inside!

These are his fingers two days after they were smushed...still cut open on the last joints, and swollen. What a tough guy!