Having fun little boy style

Some of my work friends got together with our kids at an indoor play area called Keva Sports.  Corbin got to play with all sorts of balls and bats, ring toss, bounce house and a jungle gym.  WITHOUT any coaxing from me he went for the soccer balls and started dribbling down the field.  I would love nothing more than for Corbin to play soccer like I did.  John, on the other hand, wants nothing to do with it.  Sorry to break it to you honey but I think this is our future! 

I don't know how he got the idea to do this but one morning Corbin decided to make a little fort/hide out with the drawers and doors in the kitchen.  He kept himself entertained for about an hour playing hide and seek with me.  

I never believed the people who told me kids don't need toys...

Decorating the tree

I was a little apprehensive about letting Corbin near my Christmas decorations this year.  Last year he was too small to care so I didn't have to worry.  Here we are going through my totes of ornaments and decorations.  Turns out little man didn't have too big a problem leaving the breakable things alone as long as I let him hang the other stuff. 

Just one side note, we bought new LED lights this year.  If you know my husband he would NOT stand for the regular old lights of which we have um, approximately 12 boxes of... We had to buy new.  So, two trips to town and 720 lights later we had a lit tree (which besides the pic below I failed to take any photos of). 

Corbin hanging a stocking ornament on the tree.

Annual Christmas Tree hunt



Last year we decided to try a tree farm in Janesville called Tannenbaum Acres.  We were very happy with the entire experience and have made it a Williams family tradition.  This year we brought Grandma Sandy along to take some family photos.  Here we are with our (ridiculously expensive but beautiful) tree.

Tannenbaum Acres is a family friendly place as you can see from the photo above.  Corbin got to help cut the bottom off of the tree and helped wrap it in netting too. 

I think Corbin and Daddy had more fun petting and feeding the reindeer than finding the tree.  Regardless, we are planning to make more memories with Tannenbaum Acres in the years to come.

Baby #2

Here are some ultrasound pics of baby #2 at 12 weeks.

The 3D ones are kind of creepy at this stage but the technology is pretty cool.  Baby looks like a gummy bear.

A moment in time

This video is not meant to be watched, the picture quality is horrible.  The video is to be heard, I will forever love the sound of my son's laugh, I hope you enjoy it too!

November

John and I were lucky enough to be able to attend a Packer game this month.  We made a day of it and hit the Hall of Fame and tailgaited with some friends too.  The Packers won in a land slide against the Cowboys! 

I was feeling pretty crummy this month and didn't do a whole lot of picture taking or anything else for that matter.  I did manage to get a picture of the BIG BROTHER with an ultrasound of his sibling to send out as announcements to our family.  You can see the baby is a bean still in the picture, I was only 7 weeks then.

We made a trip to MN to visit family and friends and celebrate Thanksgiving and our neice's 1st birthday.  Here is a picture of the birthday girl. 

October

October was a busy month.  We started preparing for Halloween by letting Corbin pick out a few pumpkins and gourds from a local farmer.  He had a great time trying to pick up all the biggest ones of course.

We hopefully started a family tradition by going to Epelgaarden to pick raspberries and apples.  Corbin liked helping Daddy pick the apples and taking a bite out of a few of them too.  He would not walk, or ride in the wagon for that matter, which got really tiring.  All and all we had a good time and at least I am looking forward to next year's trip.

Corbin and I also took a trip to Skelly's Farm Market.  Skelly's is a fun place to play with dump trucks in a corn box, climb on wooden play equipment and play pumpkin tic tac toe. We met some little friends, Jagger, Jemma and Loralei for yummy pumpkin donuts and apple cider.

 Corbin decided he wanted to dress up as a cow for Halloween.  I named tons of animals and insects all to which he emphatically said "NO!".  I finally asked him about a cow.  Once he said yes he never waivered.  We were proud of him saying "trick or treat" at every house and a couple of "moos" too! 

Here are our pumpkins.  Corbin's was a Cat, mine was a spider in a web and John's was a scary face.

Our family pumpkin said Trick or Treat



We also got some great family news this month.  We found out we are expecting our 2nd child!  Baby Williams #2 is due to arrive June 18th, 2011.