Lincoln- 18 months

I'm beginning to feel a little sorry for Lincoln, anticipating the arrival of Gwen and the forthcoming lessening of attention he'll be receiving from both Zach and I. Sometimes I look at him and think, how will I be able to let him know that I love him just as much when I'm not able to spend as much time one-on-one with him. I know things will work out and it'll be great- but right now, it's really hard to fathom how I'll be able to be a good mom to two babies.
For that reason, and because it's about time I did this, I'm posting just about Lincoln who turned 18 months on Sunday and is officially a nursery child. Besides, how many other times do we celebrate our half-birthdays?
One of the greatest things about Lincoln is that he is an incredibly loving little boy. He'll give Zach and I hugs and kisses almost everytime we ask him and will let me hold and cuddle him a ton. This makes him a little clingy, but that's okay-I'll take the sort-of-bad with the great.
kissing "the baby"

Lincoln has always seemed to be very interested with anything mechanical, electronic, or that has wheels. Every time he sees my dad, he immediately looks towards his belt because my dad carries his cell-phone in a carrier on his belt. Everytime he sees Zach's mom and dad, he immediately looks to their wrists because he's learned how to use the indiglo button on their watches. He has a small collection of old and toy cell phones that aren't quite as interesting as the real thing. His first real word, besides mommy and daddy, is bike, only it sounds like biyee. He says that everytime he sees a four-wheeler, or whenever we're at Target or Wal-mart near the bikes. He LOVES them! One time while sitting behind Lincoln on the four-wheeler I had just shut off, I sat a talked with someone in the garage. Suddenly, the bike roared to life and had we not been in neutral, we would have lurched into the four-wheeler in front of us. Apparently, Lincoln had learned how to turn the thing on- he's miles ahead of me there. Working on the computer when Lincoln's around is impossible because he'll go for the mouse, keyboard, power button, printer, you name it. I don't think I have to look far to figure out where his interests come from.
Lincoln is also an excellent sleeper. I hope I don't jinx myself with posting this. Lincoln goes to bed pretty happy at night on most nights around 8:30pm and doesn't wake up until around 8:00 or 8:30am for the most part. Every once in a while he'll wake up at 7:30-ish, but he'll usually just talk to himself for a while in bed until I go get him. He also takes good naps when he's at home and decent naps when he's not. All this sleeping makes for a happy child and I'm grateful he seems to enjoy his rest.
Lincoln doesn't like pain at all and I always know when he is teething. It seems to take him forever to get teeth. In fact he just barely got his 7th, 8th, and 9th tooth this past week.
He's a wonderful little boy and we wouldn't trade him for any other in the world ever!