Lincoln at a year

Height: 30.5 inches (74%)
Weight: 26 pounds 8 ounces (91%)
Head: 19 inches (92%)

About the same percentiles he had at his 9-month check-up....just bigger measurements. He's definitely a big boy.

He is getting to be so fun and is doing so many new things.

1. He is making a hilarious scowl face at everyone.
2. He makes an equally hilarious/goofy grin.
3. He copies everything. The other day Derick and I started laughing in the car and so Lincoln started to        laugh too.
4. He is starting to be able to reach things on the countertops and stove top (yikes!)
5. He isn't walking yet. He has taken several steps and will walk a ton while holding onto something, or while using his walker. Most of the time he just decides that he would rather crawl.
6. Usually Derick is in the shower when Lincoln wakes up, so I grab Lincoln and take him into the bathroom to say hi. Our shower door is low enough and Derick is tall enough so that he can say hi to Lincoln over the top. The other day I walked into the bathroom with Lincoln to grab some laundry, but Derick had already left for the day. Lincoln was reaching for the shower, thinking and hoping that his Daddy would be in there to say hi. So cute.
7. Lincoln said Mama first, but now he mostly says Dada. Actually he just says "Da." Whenever he wants Derick's attention he will say "Da." It's too funny.
8. Lincoln seems to know when it's Saturday, and he knows that Daddy will be home. When he wakes up, he calls Derick by saying "Da."
9. Today I took Lincoln for a walk (it got up to 50 degrees...hallelujah!) and we saw some horses at one of the houses. He was so fascinated and when I started to move away from them he started to cry.
10. He will purse his lips, scrunch his face, and huff and puff and loves it when we do it back.
11. One of his new favorite foods? Tater tots. I mentioned that we had them for his b-day. He loves them. He loves to dip things in ketchup. He also goes crazy for the Baby Bell cheeses and cottage cheese.
12. He loves cars.
13. He is learning to throw. It's so cute when he tries with all his might to throw a ball and it barely goes anywhere (hard to get a grip). But watch out, because he can throw his food across the room.
14. He has a tiny toy tractor, and loves to hold it when we go for walks. Some of our neighbors are doing some stuff in their yard, and they have a tractor sitting out front. When I showed Lincoln the comparison between his and the huge one, he thought it was awesome.
15. His feet are seriously too fat for any shoes. Even some of the soft ones.
16. He will dance any time he hears a beat. It doesn't even have to be music.
17. He constantly says "Dat?" (What's that?) while holding up something for us to see and tell him what it is.
18. He loves to roll around on our big down comforter. He things it's so awesome. He will lay on his back, kick his legs, and giggle, thinking he's so hilarous.
19. He loves to play with the rocks in our front yard.
20. Tonight my Dad came over to give Lincoln a birthday gift (a huge thing of Mega Blocks...totally awesome). Lincoln got all shy and hid behind my leg. So funny! He has never done that before.
21. He is learning to color. He always gets upset on Sundays when we let our primary kids use crayons and we don't let him (he just wants to eat them). Well, I have been introducing Lincoln to drawing/coloring lately and on Sunday I let him have a crayon. He was ecstatic. I bought him some crayons today and he had a lot of fun. However, he did have a blue mouth after a couple of minutes. Thank goodness for non-toxic and washable crayons!
22. He doesn't always focus on books when I am reading them, but he does love any books with flaps inside. He loves to open them.
23. He loves to "brush" his teeth while we are brushing ours. When he sees the way that we move the toothbrush around in our mouths, he tries to do it too.
24. He was way too fast for me this morning and he reached his hand in the toilet water. Ugh! Yuck! I washed them like 3 times.
25. He loves to bang on the bathroom door while one of us is in there, and then have the person in there bang back.

I know there are more. I will have to keep adding.