Link's Update

Next week Lincoln will be 6 months old and I can hardly believe it! There's no way that much time has gone past! I'm starting to feel nostalgic about the newborn days and having my baby swaddled up but, I'm thoroughly enjoying watching him grow. This picture was taken less than a month ago and if you can believe it, he's even fatter now! LOL :o)

Link is such a joy. He has a very easy smile and a pretty easy cry. Although both of my children are sensitive, I think Link is more so. He's more demanding then Gwendolyn was as a baby but, we seem to handle it ok. That said, if he can't be held for some reason, if you give him his "lovey", he's likely to be content for a bit. That's one of the areas he differs from Gwendolyn. She's never really attached herself to anything to comfort her aside from her fingers and twirling hair. Every once in a while she'll like a particular object but it's usually short lived and has nothing to do with comfort.

Link loves to laugh and giggle and he'll do it readily for you. All you have to do is say "Hi" with a smile on your face and his will light up for you in return. He really seems to enjoy any performance you give him whether it's singing, dancing, good or bad, he loves it all the same. Luckily he's not a hard audience.

I keep taking movies of him thinking he'll roll over but the bottom line is, he hates to be on his belly. Now that he's sitting up really well, he sees even less need for being on his belly and has decided he'll skip the whole rolling over bit. I'm not sure if he'll skip crawling and go straight to walking just yet. He does have this amazing gerth about him and I can't imagine crawling would be very easy with your belly hanging on the ground! ;o) LOL From the moment he was born he's been interested in going, going and going. If he's on his back, he's doing a constant crunch up to get going. If you're holding him, he's looking all over the place and will move your head where ever he wants it, I think in hopes to get you to go in that direction.

Link is very curious about everything. He's swipes and will grab whatever he can reach and if he can't reach it he'll continue to try. It's very important to keep the radius around him clear of anything that's not his or it will become his in a matter of seconds.

I'm pretty sure his first tooth will be popping through any day now. He wants to teeth on almost anything and prefers our fingers although a frozen washcloth is a good second choice. Link is way more drooly than Gwendolyn ever was even when he tooth was cutting through. Also, he spits up more than Gwendolyn ever did but, it's nothing next to my friends who have babies with reflux trouble so, I really can't complain.