Curtis makes this funny face a lot.

Happy Monday

So our little boy is just that - a little boy. He's almost two years old already! Time is flying and we are enjoying every second.
Here's some Curtis facts as he wraps up his second trip around the sun:

• He loves airplanes. If you have been around him lately, you know what I mean. Is there anything better than playing with toy airplanes? Or seeing them in the sky? Or hearing them outside? Or watching airplane videos on YouTube with his daddy in the morning? He has to take his airplanes to bed with him.
• He is really good at jumping. He likes to surprise us by announcing "jump" a split second before he leaps from the bed/couch/chair/top of the stairs. Somehow he knows we are always there to catch him.
• He can walk backwards.
• He can count to 5.
• He loves to be naked and dance in front of the mirror.
• He has crazy red hair - but since he has been a baldy for so long I don't think I can bring myself to cut it.
• He is stingy with his kisses.
• He gives the best kisses.
• He is a really good talker.
• He sleeps all night long in his own bed - I never thought this would happen.
• He is learning the word "Mine".
• If he doesn't get his way he falls to the floor and puts his forehead on the ground and his butt in the air.
• He likes to play marching band.
• We spent our first night away from him this weekend. Everyone survived.
• He is the cutest little skinny legged, stinker boy around.

Pictures from Colorado

We are in our new home~

It was a long, hot weekend but we now residents of Cotati again. I don't know why we picked the hottest weekend (and my birthday!) to carry tons (seriously tons!) of boxes, furniture and one heavy piano - as well as crawl around in a hot, hot attic. But the ugly part is over and we are so happy to be in our new cute little house. A huge thanks to everyone who helped us out - especially Grammy and Grampy Coy, Kevin, Katie, Hannah and Leo, Jimmy, & M.J. - WOW what a lot of work. All we have left is to finish up all the odds and ends at the Sebastopol house and give it a good cleaning.

Our new yellow house is cute and cozy and I think it's going to be a great spot to raise our boy. My commute to work is now only FIVE minutes!! Unfortunately for Andy his is about 10-15 minutes longer. Curtis has been doing really well sleeping in his own room all by himself!! He has been adjusting really well and is having so much fun running around and getting into all the boxes to help us unpack. We have a nice little back yard that will be great for playing and romping around in the grass. AND we have a big park behind our house with lots of playground equipment, baseball diamonds, basket ball courts and a public pool - how great is that?

Of course we are so, so sad to leave beautiful Meadowsong Farm and our good friends Bridged, Taylor, Evan, and Claire - they have been so great to us. We have really bonded with their family and we will miss being neighbors. Curtis LOVES Evan and Claire and thinks all kids are named Evan or Claire. In fact in the few days since we have been in Cotati he opens the front curtains and calls out for Claire - it breaks my heart. It has been an amazing five years living there on the laguna - we have been through so many major life changes happy and sad. We got married in 2005 and became parents in 2007 and lost my dad in 2006. So many memories will be tied to this time in our lives and I feel so blessed to have had such a special place to live.

I promise to post pictures soon - I just have to get my computer hooked up again and figure out why it doesn't want to download pictures from my camera anymore. In the mean time to see pictures from our trip to Colorado check out: http://www.vissman.blogspot.com/

Apple Blossom Parade Day!!

Today was the big Apple Blossom Parade so Erin, Curtis and I trucked down town with the stroller to check it out. It was pretty great. I can't believe I have lived in Sebastopol for so long and have never been to the parade. I guess that's the difference between not having a kid and sleeping in on the weekends and being a mommy and waking up by 6:30 no matter what day it is.


Curtis liked the parade for the most part -the things he didn't like were when the big trucks and fire engines blew their horns and the Analy High School Band mascot - that big tiger really freaked him out. Which was too bad because the band played the theme song to Rocky which was so awesome. But the bubbles, bicycles, motorcycles ("see-co") were his favorites.

Not pictured with the band- scary tiger.

The Portuguese queens were even in the parade! Brings back memories of the Los Banos Festa days!!

Hoppy Easter

Hunting Easter Eggs! The Easter Bunny left some eggs filled with strawberries - very yummy!













































Opening Easter baskets with cousins Ross and Alan









Chasing bubbles in the park with Alan

Head first down the slide!