Ingredients for a great snow day!!

After the "snowpocalypse" as Matt has coined this storm came through yesterday we both decided to stay home from work. Although we both had to get some work done, we had time to spend with our little guy and take him out on his first snowy walk.

Ingredient #1: Wake up and cuddle in bed!!!!
Ingredient #2: Bundle up!!

Ingredient #3: A family walk in the beautiful snow!!
Ingredient #4: A bounce back win by the Zags!!

Good day!

6 months!

Colin turns 6 months old tomorrow. I cannot believe that it has already been 1/2 year since this little man came into our lives. We went to the doctor today and he is 18 lbs 1 oz (75th percentile) and 27.75 inches (95th percentile.) A few more things....he is totally sitting up on his own now and that means he doesn't want to lay back at all, even to have a bottle! He doesn't seem to be close to crawling, which I have to say is fine with me as that will mean baby-proofing!

Wall Street Journal

As if Colin didn't already have enough of a hurdle to get over with his mom as an accountant, now his dad has taken to reading the Wall Street Journal to him. So, instead of Goodnight Moon, Green Eggs and Ham and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, he is hearing stories of how Facebook are creating products designed to compete with Google and the "well-balanced" editorials in the Journal.

The most amusing part of this picture is how interested he actually looks in what Matt is reading! I can't wait until he starts school and on show and tell day, he brings in yesterday's WSJ and explains the ways we could have prevented the recession.

Sitting up and funny faces!

The last few days Colin has been really steadying himself as he sits up. In fact tonight he sat up long enough for me to take a few pictures. He only fell over once and that was the end of the photo shoot!

He is also making very funny faces lately!!

The thing I will miss most....

...about going back to work tomorrow: Lazy, rainy mornings just hanging out in bed!

Halloween!

We started the Halloween celebrations with "Halloween Babyfest." I have a feeling "babyfest" is something we will be adding to a lot of holidays within the next year. It was so fun to see all the kids (and some of the adults) dressed up. I don't think I will ever stop being amazed at how these holidays have changed with having kids (of course we love the changes! So much fun!) A funny story - as we were leaving the party, I looked at the clock and it was 9:15pm. I said to Matt "Back in the day, the party would just be starting!"

Look how cute these kids are!!

And now a few more pictures of our little Twiga (Giraffe)