Let’s Hear it for New York!

We’ve made the transition from Ithaca to Brooklyn for the summer. We’re all moved into our little one-bedroom apartment and are trying to get used to living in the big city. Lincoln is doing really well with the adjustment for the most part, but we’ll have to see if we all continue to sleep in the same room.

It looks like we’re interviewing Lincoln when we feed him now.

Jonathan started his new job yesterday, but so far it doesn’t sound too hard. 

Lincoln and I ventured into Manhattan today for the first time by ourselves. We’ve discovered the stroller is, more or less, useless, so I took him in the Moby Wrap and that worked well. We walked around Central Park and Lincoln got lots of attention for being so cute. He continued being cute when we got home and he got dinner all over his face.

                                         

Beebe Lake and the Cookie Monster

 

On Saturday we went on a short hike around Beebe lake on campus. We had never been down there before and didn’t really know it even existed. Now that we’ve only got a year left in Ithaca, I feel like we need to do as much of this stuff as possible!

Lincoln really loves to drink from our huge (by comparison) water bottle.

 

When we got home from our little hike I decided to have a couple of cookies, but someone stole one (with a little help from his dad.) What a monster!

                                                   

Some Fun at the Park

First Haircut

Lincoln’s hair was getting pretty shaggy, so we decided to give him his first haircut last Monday.

Jonathan really wanted to do it himself and, although I was very skeptical at first, I think he did a pretty good job. We set up Lincoln’s booster seat in the living room so we could try to distract him with Aladdin (it didn’t work) and Jonathan got to work.

                                                                                                                                                                    
It was so funny when Jonathan used a spray bottle to get Lincoln’s hair wet. He about jumped out of his seat every time he got sprayed! We employed several means of distraction, but food was by far the most effective. Lincoln ate a whole cereal bar, but Jonathan still wasn’t done, so I had to break out the big guns. Butterscotch chips. That is the way to keep a baby from crying while getting their hair cut.

 

 

 

He was so happy to be done!

  

And so done with having his picture taken…

The Trustworthiness of Beards

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Trustworthiness-of-Beards/22581/

I don't think there's anything more to say.

Swimming at the Y

Despite the 40 degree weather outside, we went swimming at the Y with our friends, the Hickses, this afternoon. It was Lincoln’s first time in a pool and he loved it!

Vet School Open House

Cornell's Veterinary School hosts an open house every year and (as it turns out) all of Ithaca comes out to pet baby sheep and learn how to milk a cow. Lincoln loved it! He got to pet dogs, farm animals, a rat, and, against my express wishes, a snake. He was surprisingly gentle with all the animals, he' such a good boy!

  

 

One of the weirder attractions featured at the open house was a cow with a hole in it. Yes a hole. They use this poor cow to help other sick cows…