The Missing Linc!

Lincoln Ryker Polson

 

Will be our new addition come February 2013!

Obviously we are going to call him

"The Missing Linc!"

 

So exciting to have another boy/son/brother!!!

We came up with the name Lincoln a long time ago....even before he was thought of....

and we just LOVE it. Justin has begged and begged and begged and pleaded every time we've had a boy to name him Ryker. Well I have not liked that name, and have said absolutely NOT every time. So this time (knowing that this is probably going to be our last child, and probably going to be a boy) I told JP if it was a boy, that we could have Ryker be his middle name. I'm still not in love with the name, but it sounds pretty fantastic with Lincoln. What a freakin' cool name this kid is going to have! He already sounds like a kid you want to know...right?

Justin just doesn't have the capacity to procreate girls! Ha! Ha! That's okay with me. It just means I'll always be Queen, and I will always have 4 boy's worth of protection!

I don't have any brother's and never had any sort of "boy" experience (no close boy cousins, meaning no boy sport games to be dragged to, and no boy birthday parties to be dragged to, and "boy" stuff like that) until I had my boys. So I'm really enjoying the "boy" side of life! 

I picture our food bill ALWAYS being huge, pancake eating contests on Saturday mornings, always having some sort of sport game to get to, and a heck of a lot of broken things from all the wrestling that is going to happen!
I'm game for putting on every kind of Superhero birthday party know to man, playing football in the backyard, and making sure there is always something to snack on!
I hope no one thinks I'm sitting in my house sad, and crying because Baby Lincoln is not a girl. Yeah....no, I'm not that type of person. I kind of had a feeling that it was another boy, and I'm already planning things to make for him, and thinking what he will look like, and am completely in love with him!

I did want a girl more than a boy, but only because we are pretty set on Baby Lincoln being our last child, which means we will never get the opportunity to parent a daughter. But, I am defiantly not disappointed that we're having another boy. Hello? Have you met our other two boy's. Um... they're pretty much the coolest kids I know! Plus this only means I get to be the "Cool Aunt Samantha" to my niece's, and they can come over and complain about their annoying mom's when they're in high school and hate them! Ha! Ha! Melanie....I'm counting on you for some girls! And Justin will never be the dad that's locked up in prison for roughin' up a future boyfriend!

Most importantly, I'M EXCITED for Mr. Linc to be a part of our family! I have a feeling he's going to like us! I know his big brother's are just going to have a blast with him, and he with them!
He will be forever our "Missing Linc" that made our family all the better! I just can't wait to meet him!
Here's his sweet little profile! We agreed that he looks like Traceon ; )

 His cute little foot!

 He's growing just perfect, has all working organs, arms, legs, fingers, toes, a brain, eyeballs, and even went pee while we were looking at his blatter and stomach! All he needs to do, is just keep going in the direction he's going! Grow big and healthy baby boy!
 The first thing we saw on the Ultrasound machine! Baby Lincoln had his bum straight up this time, so there was no confusion! Definitely a little boy!

 So I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Dr. Huggins!
I have had some concerns about my due date, being that it is too soon. I have come to this conclusion, because of my knowledge of my "cycles" but we won't go there. Anyway, Baby Lincoln measured even sooner, this time. This worries me, because I don't want to take him 2 whole weeks earlier that he should be taken, if he's just a big baby (doesn't necessarily mean his lungs will be ready). Especially since I will have another C-Section. Anyway, I told this, along with Traceon's birth story, to Dr. Huggins and we agreed together that we will just see how it goes, and I'm going to try and "cook" Baby Lincoln as long as he'll let me (not exceeding the 2 week time frame of course!) January is going to be filled with movies, and snuggles! So there.....we don't really have a date set for this little guy to come, just plan on the end of January or first part of February! I love Dr. Huggin's because she is cool with letting me wait as long as possible to deliver Baby Lincoln, so hopefully he will be my only "smooth delivery" baby! We'll just have to wait and see how things go!

I had to blog about this. My sweet sister sent me a prego-package with a cute handmade card, and a few things to help my pregnancy go a little smoother! It made me cry! I have the best sister ever, and I feel lucky that she and I are so close. Always have been, and always will be. Her card was cute, and made me realize how special it is to be able to have children! I would be devastated if I couldn't, and I feel for all those women who can't! It is such a miracle, and quite a gift from God!
The tank top in the pic, feels like wearing butter. It is the most awesome thing that has ever touched my skin. Belly bands are a must for me, lots of water (drink holder and straws), are important to me, and the movie "What to Expect When You're Expecting" is a must for all parents.
Favorite line in the movie,
"You don't know what true love is, until you wipe some one's butt."
So true....especially the one's where you want to barf.....
Thanks Melanie!

The Museum, Shelley Spud Day, Our Big Kid, Socktopus's, and A Cinderella Cake!

 

 

So Justin and I have decided to do a Polson Family Night once a week with just us.

I have a zillion ideas "pinned" on Pinterest, and NEED TO USE THEM!

; )

So every week we have a different theme and we put each kid in charge of snacks and drinks. If it is Aydan, he gets to do it all by himself! Trace still needs some help though!

Last week we decided to start out by taking the boy's to the Museum to the the King Tut display. We knew Trace wouldn't enjoy it very much, and that Aydan would have 1,100 questions, but we also knew it was educational and we were together learning as a family.

 Goal+Theme=Success.

Aydan was very intrigued by the whole "mummy" thing, and had 1,000,000,000 questions.

While we were there, one volunteer decided to give us some of his knowledge about King Tut's heritage. Continuing with how King Tut's mom and dad were brother and sister.

UMMMMMMMM...............

As soon as those words left the volunteer's lips, I saw Aydan look straight up at us with a "WHAT?" look on his face.

Yeah....the question's flew.

20 minutes later, after discussing incest with our 5 year old, Aydan came to some peace with the history of King Tut, and came to the conclusion that he was "weird."

Ha! Ha!

 

We thought the trip was going to be mostly about mummy's for Aydan, and it being close-ish to Halloween, being a perfect topic. Until Mr. Volunteer. Oh well, Aydan was going to learn about such things at some point in his life!

 

The replica statue's and tomb's were really cool!

 A Throne!

 A Chariot!

 The boys and I!

King Tut's coffin!

 Replica of King Tut's "mummy body!"

 Outside of the museum!

 

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On the 15th we went to Shelley's Annual Spud Day Parade!

It's always a great parade with lots of candy for the kiddo's!

 

The boy's patiently waiting for the parade to start!

 Mommy and Daddy!

 The cute kiddos!

Kylar, Trace, Aydan, Bryci, Kaylee, and Collin! (The girls are Stephani's niece's!)

 Action shot of some candy grabbin'!

 Some fun Potato Floats!

 Mommy and her boys!

 Our Family, September 15, 2012!

 

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This week we started to let Aydan ride the BUS home!

We still take him to school, in fear that someone might scoop him up on his way to his class line, because he's just so dang cute!

He loves it! It's fun to hear his 5 min bus ride stories!

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This week our Family Night was making a craft!

So, we made SOCKTOPUS'S!

Aydan was is charge of snack. He got everyone a bowl of ice cream with sprinkles on top!

He did a great job, and even cleaned up after himself without being asked!

Here are the boy's working on their socktopus's!

Here's Tra's finished "friend!"

Aydan's finished "friend!"

 Cute right? They love them, and it totally made them feel super special!

I can't wait for next week's family night! Yay for our cute family, and the special things we do to enjoy each other that much more!

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This week I helped make a little girl feel super special on her birthday!

I GOT TO MAKE A PRINCESS BARBIE CAKE!

I always wanted one as a little girl, and was so stoked to get to make one!

Trace helped me by destroying opening Cinderella from her box!

Yay! I LOVE making cakes!

 Isn't she just the most?!

 I wish I would have got her dress pleats to work a little better! But, none the less, I am proud of my work! I hope I get to make more "girly" cakes in the future! My boy's will probably not ever want a barbie cake.....; )

 

 



A lot!

 

We've been up to

A LOT

these last few weeks!

 

After the coast, one of Melanie and I's friends got married here in Idaho Falls!

It was fun to see Amber Roisum and her new husband Ben Biddolph together with their little girl Kimber! They had perfect weather and really pretty decorations! 

 

Melanie, Amber, Ben, and I!

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The week before school started we built the boys a fort in their room. They slept in it for a couple of nights!

Cutie's! Yes, Aydan's eyes freak me out! He is dead asleep though!

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We started a mini garden of 3 different kinds of tomatoes and 1 kind of cucumber! It has been great having fresh tomatoes and cucumbers to snack on!

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On to the Wee Little One!

Baby is big and healthy and just perfect! I went in a few weeks ago for my first appointment!

I was super excited because I was going to get to see baby on the ultrasound machine! Honestly baby FREAKED ME OUT at first! Here's why:

I went into the ultrasound room with the tech. She was in there with what seemed to maybe be a friend. Well they were chit chatting between the two of them while the tech rolled the doppler device over my tummy. The moment I saw our little one, I realized how completely nervous I was! I was not impressed with the tech and how she was talking about old memories instead of telling me what she was doing and what we were looking at. Grrr....

I don't know if I can say I enjoyed looking at our baby (at that point), because BABY WAS NOT MOVING AT ALL! As far as I could tell anyway. Finally after several minutes of clicking and chatting about the last time the tech and her friend were together, I ASKED.

"Ummm, so is everything all right? I mean what are we looking at?"

Completely nervous....BTW.

Her response:

"Oh honey, I know you know that we're looking at your baby!"

Well duh...YOU DUMB TECH! Oh I was furious.....How dare she talk down to a worried mother!!!!

Me:

"Yes I know, but baby is not moving."

Her:

"Well here, what's this?"

Baby's beating heart came up on the screen.

"Baby's heart!"

Her:

"Yes, and baby is probably sleeping, since there is no movement."

Oh okay....thanks for telling/showing me 10 minutes in...

Anyway, she went on showing me baby's brain, spine, belly, then she got a profile pic.

After that she had a hard time getting more pics of the front of baby because apparently baby turned in toward me. But everything looked good and normal! Yippee!

Amongst this time, she asked, why I waited so long to come in for an appointment.

Another "Grrrr" moment with her for me. Honestly guys, I didn't come in right away, because the last time I got all excited about having a baby, it was taken away from me and I was devestated for months. When I found out I was pregnant with this baby, I didn't go a day without the anxiety of losing them. Imagine everytime you go to the bathroom, being terrified of what might come out, or worried that you may have jumped too hard, or ran too fast up the stairs, or wresteled with your boys too rough, or trying to remember if you ate lunch meat before you knew you were with child.............I know it might sound silly, but that is how I have felt all Summer. The more time goes on, and the fact that baby is looking fantastic, has helped, but I might not get over the anxiety until I get to hold this precious little one in my arms! That is how much I want him/her! Of course I didn't tell her that. I just said we were busy (which is mostly true) and it wasn't like I wasn't taking care of myself. I knew I was pregnant 11 days past ovulation.....which is super early, and ever since then I have been taking prenatal vitamins, and staying away from what NOT to eat! May was the 1st month we started to "try" again for a baby, so I was on top of "mommy things" like that!

Then she asked me if I wanted to know what the gender was, and I was like......YES PLEASE!

Baby was in a ball, turned in, and in the breech position. So it was really hard for the tech to get a glimpse. She seemed in a hurry, and assumed it was a girl, because she couldn't see boy parts. Then she moved around a bit, and changed her mind took a pic, and said, "Looks like another boy!"

Gave me tissues, and told me to sit up. She then took the printed pics and looked at them, saying the boy parts were acutally a little big, and might actually be the umbilical cord. She then said maybe in 3 weeks when you come back your baby won't be in breech position and we'll get a better look.

All I could do was say thank you and walk out......but I really wanted to say, "Wait, that was it?" I didn't even get to look for myself....not that I'm an expert, but this ain't my first rodeo!

AHHHHH!

The gender part was so quick, and I think I was in shock at being told it could be a girl or a boy.....isn't that what my chances were going in? Ha! Ha!

I know it was earlier, and I totally understand that the baby was not in a good position, but she bugged. She bugged me badly. And I'm trying not to let my experience with her make me want to change back to my old doctor.

 All in all, it doesn't matter to me if I know or if we know what gender baby is. It just helps with the frightening fact that in a few months a living human being will come from my body. ; )

If it is a boy, he is coming in to a home that was just plain MADE for him. 2 big bro's to show him the rope's, a TON of boy's toys, and a Mommy and Daddy that just adore little boys! If it is a girl however, I KNOW how to do girl! And she will be brought up not as a princess that gets everything she wants, but as a strong woman that will be confident in her "GIRL POWER!"

I just didn't like my experience with the tech. : (

But I still love the doctor, and one of the P.A.'s. The P.A. by the way reassured me that is was early, and probably a lot harder to tell what's what in there especially since baby was in such a weird position! She too, agreed that the "boy parts" were a bit big, and said it wasn't the best pic.

I did compare ultrasound pics....though. Aydan and Traceon's "boy parts" look exactly the same, and exactly what "boy parts" should look like. The ultrasound pic she gave me doesn't look anything like the boys'. So my only thing when we go back in is, if it's a boy, to get a clear shot of "boy parts" instead of taking a pic of what "might be" boy parts! And if this little one decide's they just want to come out a surprise, well, that will be just fine with me, as long as I get to hold them in my arms!

Ha! Ha! It might be a fun twist to this little one's story!

Have I mentioned how excited I am to have another baby? Yay!

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For Labor Day Weekend we went camping up to Spencer at Dairy Creek Campground!

We went with Garrett and Stephani, and their kids!

Isn't it just pretty!? 

I forgot our camera : ( It was the night after the afternoon at the doc's, and I was a bit frazzled! Plus, I have what I call "prego brain" where my brain doesn't work normal, and I blame it on the fact that I'm growing a human!

So some of the pics are off Justin's IPod, and some I stole from Stephani.

Here's our camp set up!

The 4 little boys had a blast playing together! Mostly with sticks and bikes!

I love camping, because Justin cooks almost all the meal on the Camp Chef!

Don't I have the most gorgeous men in my life?!

We went on a Rumplestilskin walk, and the boys got a SWEET fishing pole, and some new bait! No pics though.... and later they went fishing!

This trip we played A LOT of games! It was fun to just relax and hang!

Justin and I were playing Scrabble!

One afternoon we took the boys out on a drive, and let them take the wheel! I loved that as a child, especially on back country roads!

Aydan!

Traceon!

(He didn't really take full controll of steering like Aydan, but nobody needs to tell him!)

Then of course my "gun nut" husband needed to shoot guns!

Then it got nasty.....

And even hailed!

So some of us took cover....

While some of us played in the rain/hail!

It didn't let up, so we hung out in Garrett and Stephani's camper so the boys could watch a movie together!

While we played games!

The next day went the same, and we had another movie/game night!

Traceon!

Aydan with is walking stick!

The last night we were there we could finally have a fire where we could sit by it!

The kiddos got spoiled with another movie, except this time it was outside on the projector!

Cool right?

It was a fun camping trip, and I really enjoyed playing lots of games together!

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Aydan's 1st day of Kindergarten was September 4th! We actually got to go to school with him where there was a special scavenger hunt. Aydan learned where to sit, go to the bathroom, get a drink, hang his back pack, and got to know his teacher a bit more!

1st day wasn's so bad! We took Aydan out to breakfast after ( we had to be at the school at 8:00am!) at I Hop!

Tuesday was a little different for me! The teacher didn't want the parents to come in with the kids so they were just to line up outside the front doors of the school. Well as soon as I walked Aydan to get in line, I realized why the teacher might not want parents to come in......I started to cry. So I gave my little guy kiss, took a few pics, and hurried to the truck. I sat in the truck and watched him go inside with his class. By this time I was now sobbing! Oh, he looked so OLD!

This was Aydan on Tuesday.

All lined up!

Wednesday, I cried, Thursday I cried, and when Trace and I got home, Tra said, "Mom, everything's going to be okay." And that made me bawl even more! Such a grown up thing to say from my almost 3 year old! Friday, there was no sobbing, just a few tears, and Trace quickly said to me, as soon as I got back in the truck from walking Aydan to his line, "Mom, please don't cry!" In an almost annoyed tone! Ha! Ha! So cute, and funny! Sorry son, but this mamma is packed full of hormones, and you haven't even seen the last of tears I will shed for you little turds!

Aydan has LOVED school so far! The only thing he (and I really mean WE) are struggling with is getting to bed before 9pm and getting up before 8am! Summer was fun, but now we have responsibility! Aydan has gym on Thursday's, and has a Homework packet. Together we have to do some things at home, and then turn in the packet at the end of every week! This I LOVE! It has things like practice counting to 20, read a book to him, draw and write some things. Luckily Aydan-Bug is Super smart, and can count much higher, and in increments, and can already read me books! So, I'm feeling pretty good about the school year so far! I just can't wrap my head around the fact that we have a GRADE SCHOOLER!
I gave Aydan A Back to School Interview....Pretty funny! The words are a little small, hopefully I can get it into a scrapbook page, and make it look a little better! I got this idea off of Pinterest, and I love the idea of doing it every year to see how the answers change!

 Such a handsome kid!

 

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I made my family take more family pictures. It didn't go as planned, but I got good ones WITH EYES OPEN, to hang up in our living room!

I love this on of the boys! My hair is a little messy....but I'll take messy hair over closed eyes! Trace usually has at least one shut!

Cutie pie Traceon!

Studly Aydan!

Adorable Brothers!

I'm kind of sad that the boys didn't cooperate with this pic....oh well! My baby bump's coming along huh?

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My dad and I took the boys to the fair one afternoon! They loved riding the rides together!

The petting zoo is so fun! Trace fed some animals too,  I just had to help him, so I didn't get any pics of him feeding the cute sheep!

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Sunday we went to my dad's house for a football party! Steeler's against the Bronco's! Good game! It was a little weird seeing Manning in a Bronco's jersey though!

My dad finally has some grass, and it was so fun playing in it!

The tramp was even set up!

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Monday was Tommie Lyn's 6th birthday!

Isn't she just a doll?

Excited about some footie jamies!

Opening presents!

Cool Barbie head! Ha! Ha! I had one as a little girl!

A brand new baby!

Happy 6th Birthday Tommie!

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We've been busy, and we are super excited about the Holiday Season coming up! And I have a few fun things planned that we are going to do monthly as a family! Thank you Pinterest!