Chris & Naomi Hathaway Home

We blessed Fiona at church in July. She wore a beautiful dress her Grandma Hathaway gave her for Christmas last year. We had several friends attend as well as Grandma and Grandpa Hathaway. After church we went to the grandparents' house for dinner and had a photo shoot later that evening.

So we haven't been so good about posting to our blog recently. I'm going to try to at least document a few things and then Chris can come back and improve upon it when he gets the chance.

On a Sunday night in June we were looking at the flights to WA and the next morning we had hopped a plane standby and were on our way. We very much wanted to show Fiona her family there. I think Grandma was happiest of all that we came. She was not so pleased with us leaving again, but we'll try to solve that problem one day. We spent our days in WA looking at model homes and dreaming of a life there. It's still a bit out of reach, but maybe it won't be forever.

I have to squeeze this in before Lincoln's birthday party post since this took place in February. A few weeks ago I made Lincoln some lunch while he was playing on the computer. Lunch consisted of tortellini leftover from the previous night's dinner and strawberries and bananas. When he came out he looked at the food and said "this is the best food I ever seen in the whole world!" This surprised me and I laughed, but it made me feel good. I was later humbled when he started saying the same phrase about my breakfast cereal and several other simple meals we later ate. I guess he isn't the harshest critic when it comes to food.

Okay, I have a lot to put up today, or at least a lot for me. This morning while Chris and I were still not quite awake, we heard Lincoln in the process of moving his crib to the living room. He had moved the glider and ottoman out of his way and managed to get it wedged into his doorway. Chris tried explaining to him that the doorway was too small for the crib to fit through, but Lincoln really thought he could do it. He worked on it for a while before finally giving up. When we asked him why he was moving his crib he said "I'm still a little sleepy." He decided to have a little rest in the living room while watching a show on TV.

Lately, Lincoln has been telling us lots of stories. Mostly about when he was five or six. "When I was six I drived the car all by myself to Grandma Hathaway's house." Last night he told us "when I was a little baby I goed to Grandma Allan's house and she held me and sang Rockabye baby to me." He says Chris and I weren't there and neither was Grandpa Allan or Scott or Kate. It was just the two of them. Today I told him we are going to the temple tonight to meet Grandma Hathaway there. He got excited and said "I will marry the baby and then I will dance with her, Dad will marry you and dance with you." He was really happy about that.

I am in my third trimester and I will also include a picture of my belly we took this past week.

Lincoln: "And when you're done sicking in the toilet, then you can get me some milk!" (Said with a big smile.)

I guess I'll try to add a few more notes about Lincoln and the new baby now that I'm logged in.

Lincoln's favorite movies are "Swiss Family Robinson" and "Hook" right now. He loves shooting pirates. We see pirates everywhere we go now and he is very good about protecting me from them. He isn't allowed to shoot mom, just pirates. We talk about the movies quite a bit when we aren't watching them.

Because I've been sick a lot recently (with pregnancy and now the flu), Lincoln is getting really independent. He can get out of his crib very easily, open his bedroom door, get himself yogurt and open it, open the animal cracker tub and fill his bowl with crackers, he puts his shoes away in his shoe bin, and he also does a lot more picking up after himself in general (not by choice usually). The other day he came to me in his pajamas and said "I'm going outside." He then put on his shoes and went to the back door and asked "Is it ok if I go outside?" I said sure and watched as he opened the door and let himself out into the backyard. He has been the best little boy ever. I am looking forward to having more energy soon so I can spend some quality time with him.

The baby is kicking a lot now. I am 26 weeks and my next appt. is on Monday. After Monday I will have appointments every two weeks. I still don't think my belly is that big, but my body is starting to feel sore from the growing baby inside me. We are not ready for her to come so soon!

Me: Hey Lincoln, do you want to go somewhere with me today? (I want to look at picture frames.)
Lincoln: Let's go see.... Heavenly Father.
Me: Umm... we can't go see Heavenly Father.
Lincoln: Is it real far, do we have to go on a airplane?
Me: Well...yes...it is far....but, we can't go there on an airplane....we can't see Heavenly Father until we die.
Lincoln: Let's do it, Mom!
Me: We can't die....we would miss daddy too much.

I then proceeded to tell him about pre-mortal life, the creation, the atonement, and life after death. Maybe a bit much for a 2 year old to grasp, but I did illustrate with drawings.

Lincoln found an old pacifier as we were digging through all of our old boxes this week. He decided to be a baby again so I made him do some tummy time. It's so much easier to get him to stay on his belly now. He even did some tricks like rolling over and saying ma-ma and da-da for us.

Lincoln tried out the Wii Fit and I think he likes it. He sure has a lot of energy, and I think this game will just give him more.

1. Hula Hoop

2. Ski Slalom

3. Yoga, Tree Pose

After moving into our new house, we bought a used washer and dryer from a family who was moving out of state. We were very excited to get a front loading washer since we had been using one at the Hathaway's while living in an apartment. Well, lately we have had a couple of surprises inside the washing machine.

First, I saw something sticking out of the rubber seal that keeps water from leaking out of the washer door. I pulled it out and discovered it was a hat! I happen to know someone who loves hats and it turned out to fit his head perfectly. By the way, there were also about 15 of his socks down in the seal.

That is tuna by his nose just in case you were wondering.

Our second surprise was simply a new hiding spot for our little guy. Turns out he also wanted to wash his stuffed puppy. It went through a wash cycle shortly after this picture was taken. He's such a fun, silly boy lately. The things he says now are so so cute! We need to try to capture more on video so we can share it with you.

*Edit by Chris:
Sorry, I can't resist adding one more picture... it's our cute little Jihad...

As we were putting Lincoln to bed he grabbed a wooden stick that had come in a music set and said "gum, boom boom boom!" Uh-oh, he had finally learned about guns in nursery. We were shocked and said "where did you learn that?!" Then he walked over to his drum and started banging on it with the stick. I said "what's that?" He said "Gum!" I said "what does a drum say?" He said "boom boom boom". He's so funny.