Surprise!!!!

Happy Birthday Stephanie!!!!! Last night we celebrated Steph's 30Th birthday. William put together an awesome surprise party for her and we all party'd like we were rock star's. This was the first big outing since Linkoln and Carson were born....we so needed it:)! She is a beautiful person inside and out. Sammy and I are blessed to have them as our BFF's. It was great to have the whole gang out and about.... We love you all!

Baby Food

Okay so I'm a little behind on the blogging. I am clearly working backwards if you haven't noticed already. I should catch up soon...I hope! So we started Linkoln on rice cereal at the end of March. He has done so well with it so we decided along with our pediatrician that baby veggies were the next step. Poppy was over on the Friday evening that we started carrots. He did great...I think he enjoyed getting messy the most;) It's amazing how the food on their face bothers us more than it bothers them. Linkoln so loves to try and eat his bib during a feeding or slap at the spoon as I'm coming towards him. I have now started to wear an apron so that my clothing can stay free of baby food stains (thanks Steph)! Since then we have tried squash, green beans and sweet peas. Hands down the peas are his favorite and the green beans his least...I don't blame him, do you? This is such an exciting time, I can't wait for next month when the yummy fruit is introduced.

Crying it out!

So tonight was the night that Sammy and I decided to let Linkoln try and put himself to sleep. I gave him his bath, lotioned him down, read "Good Night Moon" and said our prayers while he had his last feeding of the night. I could tell that he was getting very sleepy and thought to myself that this might not be so bad. Since he is really tired he should go down without a fight. Man was I wrong. Sam and I had agreed to let him cry for 10 minutes strong before we would go in and reassure him that mommy and daddy were still here. It was the longest and hardest 10 minutes of my life. I cried right along with him. Sam was great...he stayed strong for all three of us. I know that its the best thing for him but it is still hard. I can only pray that it gets better. We are so blessed to have my parents and the Palmer's here for support...we love you!