These are a few of my favorite things. . . .

When Matthew walks around the house talking loudly at the top of his lungs - who knows what he's saying, but it's cute (and sometimes irritating :-P)

How he likes to crawl like a catapillar and dance like a maniac :)

How he gives me big hugs, and when I tell him I love him and ask him if he loves me back, he says "MmHmm"!

When Josh whispers in his ear to "go tickle mommy" he promptly comes over and tickles me - and then vice-versa, he could spend all evening going back and forth.

He likes to play pretend "Nigh-Night" where Josh or I will close our eyes and start snoring, and he'll come and scare us awake. When we ask him to go "Nigh-Night" he closes his eyes really tight - it's so cute.

When he counts to 10 - it's so adorable. He normally only counts from 1 to 5 OR 6 to 10, he rarely counts it all together, unless we say it with him.

When he sings the alphabet song with me. I think he only gets the letters: D, G, P, S, V, X, Z - but he tries so hard!

He thinks farting is funny. Oh no. Josh taught him that one.

Sneezing is funny too. . .ha ha

I love how he can make anything funny, and turn the worst day into the best day. An ode to Matthew, the greatest little boy in the world :)

A new way to blog. . .

So I think I'm just going to start posting mini-blogs, for different funny or interesting things that come up, mostly in the life of Matthew. Some will have pictures, some will just have quick blurbs - like todays. . .

This morning, Matthew peed on the carpet. Ugh. I had stripped him down to take a shower, and as always he runs around the house naked for a little while. Today it was a mistake. So I didn't see it happen, but Matthew comes around the corner, sees me, and starts walking back the other way. It's time for the shower, so follow him to try and corral him in. He walks right over to the puddle, sticks his foot in it, looks at me and says "Hot!". . .ha ha, oh the joys of motherhood!

Matthew's New T-shirt!

This is how we told our family about our new bundle of joy :) We're all so excited to welcome Baby Williams #2 into this world sometime in February (official due date February 28th). Matthew is going to be such a great big brother!

Summertime Fun!

It's been a whirlwind of the past few weeks - lots of fun at the spa, the pool, the beach & more!! I am LOVING staying at home, and I really think Matthew is enjoying it too. Let's start with a cute little video of Matthew's new favorite thing (I my new favorite thing he says):

Words can't describe the past few weeks - except FUN and EXHAUSTION, but here are a few pics to show you what we've been up to. Can't wait to share more pics, flix and stories as the summer goes on!

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Matthew & I in Grandma & Grandpa's Spa - he loves it!

Fun day at the Quail Botanical Gardens

(only got 1 pic before camera died)

First day as a family at the beach - he LOVES the sand -

though you wouldn't know from the face he's making!
Quality guy time at the beach :)Josh & I celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary on July 17th!

Happy 4th of July!

So my first week as a stay at home mom has come and gone, but did it really count? This first week was my "cheat week" - Matthew still stayed with the Grandparents per our usual arrangements while I cleaned house and ran errands. Yes, it took me 4 days to clean and run errands - no I didn't finish :-P Oh well! So yesterday, Friday, I feel like my stay at home days officially began. We started the day by taking Matthew to an awesome park in San Elijo Hills. It has this fun water feature that Matthew just loved (see pics & video below). So much fun. They also have a sandbox, and a fun play structure that is completely shaded - how nice is that!?

After the park, the day pretty much went downhill though. . . .so Matthew took one afternoon nap (he normally takes 2 naps, a morning and a late afternoon) and woke up crying and unhappy from it. We tried to feed him lunch, didn't really want anything, but finally calmed down. So we decided (oh such a great idea) to go to the fair! We left our house at about 2:45 or so, Matthew & DVD player in tow, and started down there. Didn't actually run into too much traffic, but once we got to the free parking at the horsepark. . .miserable. We waited about 30-40 minutes in line to get on the double deckers to take us over, and once we got there it was just so overwhelmingly confusing and crowded, we decided not to even attempt to go in!!!! So we waited in another 30-40 minute line to get on another bus to go back to our car, and then it took about 30-45 minutes to get home. Poor guy, Matthew was a wreck by the time we got home at 6:30!! :(

Oh well, no fair for us this year - but at least the day started out fun! Here's to much more fun next week, my first full week as an official stay at home mom :) HAPPY 4th of JULY!!!

Matthew had fun with Aliya (and Drew & Jake!)