Christmas cookie decoration at Shannon and Gabi's

We had a wonderful time decorating cookies with icing and candy! Shannon is one of those awesome "crafts moms" who does things like this - we are just parasites on her creativity.

William enjoyed sampling the candy as he decorated.

Mom enjoyed sampling the Frosted William flavor. Delicious!! Don't worry, no toddlers were harmed and all digits are intact.

Time to catch up, as best we can.

Hi everyone! So the blog has been a bit... quiet. This may be related to an increase in responsibility of some sort for the person in charge of the blog. Such as, for example, A WHOLE OTHER PERSON TO BE IN CHARGE OF. Still, the dream lives on... we really do want to keep blogs for each of them. So struggle along with us! Here are some catch up photos from the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010. Love to you all!

Johnny Cash

Our Christmas tree!

This is the first year that Will has been interested in decorating the tree. VERY interested, especially in our frog ornament!!

Hope everyone is enjoying a lovely holiday season!

The Los Gatos Christmas Parade

This past weekend was the Children's Christmas parade in our neighborhood. William was very excited to see that the train locomotive from Oak Meadow's Wildcat Railroad was parked right by his front door!

A great seat to see all the parade floats is on Dad's shoulders!

Halloween, in which a very serious bee trick-or-treats a little

Pumpkins

Mom and Will and Zoe went to lunch at the Happy Hound after preschool a few weeks back... Will enjoyed the pumpkin motif.

A day at Gilroy Gardens...

...can tire a guy out pretty well.

Baking with Mom

Chocolate chip cookies, of course. And mostly gone now (equal parts interest from William, Mom and Dad; Zoe abstained).

Shoulder ride from Grumpy

Sorry for the poor photo quality - we still wanted this one in the blog because it was a lovely visit with Grumpy and Will enjoyed his shoulder ride home from the park very much!!

Care for a bite of my corn dog?

Mmmmmm, corn dog.

Mark shows William the surgeon's scrub-up

6 is afraid of 7...

Will is singing the Bare Naked Ladies song "7 8 9" in which 6 is afraid of 7, 'cause 7 8 9. He likes to sing "7 8 9" in his special deep voice.

Regression?

Bee preview

William tries on his bee costume - he's a (somewhat bigger) bee than he was 2 years ago.

William holds Zoe!

William in a handbasket

Aunt G calls this Will's "Elvis look"

On my bike!

Tour de France