Fourth and last birthday party March 12 - phew!

Our last party! Friends, family, a bouncehouse and a taco cart = good times :)

Happy 2nd Birthday Colson - March 10, 2011 - party number three

The night of his actual birthday - had some family over for a small party -- but Colson's third time blowing out a candle!

Colson 2nd Birthday - party number two

Colson's second celebration was on the day of his birthday - march 10 - at his school! I brought in cake and fruit and some decorations -- the kids all sang happy birthday and colson was beaming :)

Colson's 2nd Birthday - Party number one

On March 5 we did a party for Colson in Long Beach with my family ...

catching up: Valentine's 2011

Be my Valentine!

catching up: Christmas 2010

This past Christmas was a whirlwind of family activities! On Christmas Eve eve (yes the 23rd) I had about 20 family come to dinner and stay at our house en route to Tahoe. Then for Christmas Eve we headed to GP's (Nick's grandma's) for our traditional spaghetti dinner and exchanged presents with Nick's dad's side of the family. The next morning bright and early we loaded up the car and headed into Tahoe to meet up with the rest of my family. Then back in town we celebrated Christmas with Nick's mom ... whew -- that was a lot to pack in a few days!

Anyway, I didn't get too many pictures :( But Colson got a TON of presents -- as usual. Between Christmas and his birthday, we really don't buy him very much throughout the year!

Here he is playing with his new BBQ set and wearing a 49ers apron (courtesy of Aunt Lori Uncle Terry and the rest of the clan).

Here's C with a new drum set from cousin Elliott!

my big boy bed!!

Since we planned on using Colson's crib for his new baby sister -- we decided to transition him to a toddler bed. Well we did it a little sooner than planned ... for our Thanksgiving trip, I bought a peapod toddler travel bed. It looks like a tent and has an inflatable air matress inside. When we came back from Florida - he only wanted to sleep in that. So I ordered the toddler bed pronto and he has been in that since the beginning of December. Drawback: now he can get out of bed whenever he wants and come to our room (that is a whole other post in itself). But all in all the bed has been great for him :)