The Kohlmans

Lawrence is smiling more and more, especially when someone is singing to him or he's outside, and he's getting to be more and more generous all the time. We love it when Lawrence smiles!

We love spending time at the park, and the weather has been perfect lately! It's a good thing we have so many parks in town; we'll have to explore all of them this summer.

Lincoln has been making a lot of forts lately. Sometimes he shares with Lawrence and mommy!

When I was a kid, every May 1 my mom would orchestrate our own little May Day celebration. We would make baskets (often out of the green plastic baskets that strawberries used to come in), fill them with flowers from the garden, and deliver them to our neighbors... driving miles to do so since neighbors are few and far between in the country. This year, Lincoln was old enough and we finally lived in a neighborhood where delivery would be easy, so on April 30, Lincoln and I made some paper May baskets. Unfortunately, we didn't have any flowers blooming (I don't think there are any planted in our yard at all), so I picked some up at the store the next day. After school, all four of us walked down our street, delivering May baskets. Lincoln and I would go up to the door, leave the basket, ring the bell, and "run away." Of course, we often didn't get too far since there weren't many places to hide - and Lincoln was excited to move on to the next house. ...

Lawrence, It's hard to believe you're already a month old. I have a feeling I will be writing that in most of these monthly posts! You have sort of established a routine for sleeping and eating, at least on days when we stay home or are home for most of the day. You're a very good eater but don't always know when to stop. Nighttime is still a grab bag, though; you will go anywhere from 2 to 5 hours between feedings at night. I am hoping you settle into more of a nighttime routine soon. For naps, you have to sleep on mommy; I can't put you down in your crib or you will wake up. Daddy can put you down in your crib for naps and you sleep just fine. You don't have this problem at night, though. Thankfully you usually go right back to sleep after eating.   During the day, you mostly want to be held and cuddled and interacted with, which connects to how you have to nap on mommy. You love to be sung to and will try to imitate with your mouth and ...

Lawrence got to meet Great Grandma Lu and Great Grandpa Varden just a few days before Easter.