Packing away baby girls clothes as she reached 6 months today. I hate this. Not because it takes awhile to round up and pack everything away but because the clothes represent a time that was. She'll never again be able to wear those little summer dresses or the halloween fairy costume (that cost a small fortune) or the special little holiday dress my mom got her. It's bittersweet. My little baby is getting bigger. Now I guess it's time to go shopping.

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It's Christmastime!!!

Christmas is almost here, only 3 more days to go! Colten is eagerly awaiting the arrival of Mr. Claus and Victoria, who was brought to us by the good Lord in June, will be just under 6 months old so she is still too little to really know what is going on. That small fact however will not make her amount of presents under the tree any less. Especially since Nana Madaline and Papa Tony are here from Germany to celebrate the holidays with us.
I haven't gone all out with the decorating this year. Having a new baby makes you less detail oriented for some reason. We have our faux tree in the formal living room, a small, cut, five foot fir in the great room and a tiny 24" white faux (fifties style) on the breakfast bar. Colten is very proud of his three trees.
We shall be visiting lots of family over Christmas weekend so (hopefully) I will update with lots of pictures! Merry Christmas!

Coltens New Cousin!

Jacob Scot was born on Feb 14, 2009 and he is gorgeous! A healthy baby boy for Matts brother Nick and his girlfriend Christina. And a built in best friend for Colten. Congrats guys!

Christmastime

Our little Willard family had a lovely Christmas

Colten asked Santa for a Dinosaur for Christmas
And Santa granted his wish!

Mommy and Colten open gifts

Colten and Daddy are pooped after a long day of playing with new toys.

If you all didn't already know, I went back to work hence the 6 month gap between updates. I'm working part time but get lots of OT so it works out to being about 30 - 36 hrs a week.

So here's our October wrap-up.

We made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. Truly it has practically become an amusement park. We went to Dell Oso Farms in Tracy where they have a gigantic corn maze, a train ride, pony rides, a petting zoo, a play area with bouncy houses, a pumpkin shooting range, a stream to mine gold, a food court area and a patch to pick your pumpkins. We opted for the petting zoo and train ride. Colten had fun observing all the farm animals and wasn't sure what to think of the little goat that tried to eat his sleeve.

This was the first year Colten was able to go trick-or-treating and he just did not want to stop. He dressed up as a knight in shining armour and was so adorable! We walked up to the homes and I would say, "what do you say?" He would either say "bees!" (please) or "twi-thwee!" (that's his trick-o-treat). He had a blast and kept wanting to to do it "moe-moe!" (more).

Sir Colten Jacob of King Arthurs Knights of the Round Table

Thomas!

I know this is a late report, but I (mommy) decided to go back to work so I have been busy working and trying to adjust to a new schedule. We are hoping to buy a house in a year so my paycheck will definetly help out with that =)

Anyway, on Mother's Day, May 10, Matt, Matts mom Barbara, Colten and I went to Woodland (just north of Sacramento) to go see Thomas the Train! Colten loves Thomas, has a track and many Thomas cars. We had lots of fun, there were activities, coloring, watching Thomas movies, playing with legos, jumpy houses, a toddler size train to ride, etc. When our ticket time came, we boarded Thomas' passenger cars and went for a 40 minute ride! We all had such a blast, Colten "choo-choo"ing much of the time. If you ask him to say "Thomas", he will say "choo-choo!"

After we left Woodland, we headed to Old Sacramento. For those who haven't been there, it's the historical downtown on the American River with the original buildings, cobblestone streets and raised wood-plank sidewalks. The four of us had lunch, walked around and window shopped.

It was a great day and by the end of it, we were all pooped. Some more than others perhaps. . .