Our New Blog. . .

Welcome to Matt, Kelly and Colten Willards new blog!

We are super excited to let everyone see how gigantic Colten is getting day by day. Especially those to live far away and we don't get to see as often as we would like to.

Colten turned 18 months on March 1st and is really big and super smart. He says lots of words including, Dada, Mama, Boo (nickname for our cat, Bella) Bath, Ball, Pop (my grandpa Abraham), Bye bye, Car, he nods and shakes his head to answer questions and signs truck, train, slide, fan, light, moon, stars, more, please, thank-you, I'm sorry, dog, etc. Colten loves to read (or really, have books read to him), play with his Little People, go to the park and for walks and loves to watch cartoon movies.

Today Grandma Barbara took us out to lunch at Cancun (yum-o!) and from there we went to the park at Weber Point. It was totally spontaneous so we didn't bring our cameras (pooh!) but Colten had a blast. He likes eating sand for some reason but this park has bark and foam so it was 'safe'. The weather today was perfect in my view, about 65 I think, and cloudy but the sun was peeking through so it was fabulous. After the park, we headed to the Children's Museum of Stockton where, quite frankly, we all had fun! That is such a cool place, I wish it was a little bit bigger. The last time I took Colten he was afraid to go in the Firetruck, Police Car, Helicoptor, Ambulance and Bus (these were actual vehicles that had been retired and modified to be safe for kids to play in), but this time he did well. He slept for about 2 1/2 hours when we got home!

Bookmark us and checkback soon for updates on what we're up to and how big Colten is getting!