Ice Skating - Nov 15, 2009

Pauline and Bryan...this one's for you!

i can do it

Eves at home

Magnifying Glass

Grandpa Bill got Will a magnifying glass, so will walks around the house 'making things big'. It is hilarious.

Halloween Scene

They shut down Main St. Steamboat and it is filled with trick or treaters and great families.

Nanas in Pajamas

Rapping

Of course Matt taught Will how to rap. Pbbh-pbu-chhh, pb-b-chh. And then, every once in a while, he throws in a 'BREAK IT DOWNNN' or a 'YO YO YOOOO'. He even puts his hand in front of his mouth. Pretty amazing to watch.

So, the days after Halloween, Will really had candy on the brain. So, we got in the car the next week and there were some candy wrappers from the festivities. I hear from the backseat 'Em-in-em-uhhhs!', will's word for his fave, M&M's. I peek back and see it is an empty wrapper.

"No, Honey, that is just a wrapper."

to which he responds by...you guessed it, rapping. 'BREAK IT DOWN!!' pbbuu, pbchhhh.

boo boo buddy

Nana Niki got this for us/will many moons ago and we never really thought we would use it. a Boo Boo Buddy. The blue doggie. well, it is now officially the greatest thing in the house. Any TINY remote bump or fall or injury of ANY sort...will starts to crinkle up his face and just as quickly as he does that, he cries out BOOBOOBUDDDIIIEEEE! to which we retrieve it from the freezer, place it on the injury and the crying stops and we move on. It even works if he bonks and I ask if he is OK? 'OK Will? Boo Boo Buddy?' YEAAAHHHHHHH, he cries.

I LOVE YOUUUU

called EVERYONE last night because Will now says I Love Youuuuu! Lisa died: I love you (deep breath) Leessaaaaa. Niki was crying: I love you (niiii-keeee). Debs was beside herself and Jenny wanted it on tape to play over and over again.

potty v2

sooo, we (will and I) have a little routine now. every morn, get up, get nudey (will) and cleaned up. then head to the potty. we both sit on our potties and read magazines and look at pictures, while we try and go peepee. he has peeped now twice on the potty! kinda fun just to get it all started. same routine at nighttime!

oh, and then he hops off and runs around the house yelling 'NUDEY BOOOYYY!!!!'

Potty

Sooo, Will is OBSESSED with his potty. He basically carries it around (sits it in front of the tv in the living room and sits on it), climbs on it, steps in the bowl, etc. Little plastic thing. He calls it 'Wiol's pot-ee'. anyway, we have just in the past week or so really started listening and focussing on his potty as a place to go potty - started taking off his diaper to sit on it, etc. wanted to get him used to it first, and now it is no longer really a toy. we have also, ahem, taken to reading with him on the potty...in an effort to keep him on it longer. so, last night, we were looking at a travel magazine and WHAMMO, I look down and a little trickle of peepee is coming out. he was busy looking at the pictures and talking. 'WILLL! You are going peepee in the potty! GOood booyyyy!!' cheered for a while and celebrated. He was happy, but i think still didn't realize that he was going peepee. so, maybe we aren't sooo ready yet for the potty, but getting there. Too cute. And today is school photos. LOL!

W and Names

Will has a fun 'W' on his wall in his room. So, he has always said 'Double-U for Will!' And Grandma Debbi taught him his parents names...last week he came over to me with his eyes kinda rolled up and with his chin down and gave me a hug and said 'Robbbinnnn'. We were DYING. reminded me of some of Molly Pitts' insane expressions.

Anyway, in the car yesterday driving to school he was holding his tennis ball that we found on the run the other morning (he calls it his rodeo 'tussin' ball, cause that's where we found it and apparently tennis is hard for kiddos to say).

I hear this 'DOUBLE-U Wiolllll Hallll' coming from the back seat. I look back and he is pointing to the W at the start of the word Wilson on the tennis ball.

Uncochief

Yes, the name of our street is very strange - what is an Uncochief anyway? My dad and Matt's mom have vowed to find out what it is and are still doing research.

Anyway, driving home from school today and will calls out all the landmarks as usual. Rodeo! Dino! Swimming - mommy Wioll swimming! HopHopHop (Rabbit ears motel)! Ice cream (Fuzziwig's ice cream shop)! And the latest...'Wiol's Horsey - Lightning!' (the horse outside FM Light and Sons cowboy shop that kids can ride.

So, headed up the hills to our house yesterday. Bus! (sees the green bus) Chicken, inside, dinner. (kitty on our street named Chicken is not outside...must be inside having dinner, of course. doi.)

So Will knows and can say that we live on Uncooocheeefff. So, we have been on long drives before and he says 'Home, Uncochief, Please.'

'Will, we are going to turn the corner now and let's look for Echo, the doggie! Will, do you know where Echo lives?'

'Uncochief.'

So, apparently he comprehends that uncochief isn't just something we call our house or some word we say when asked what street we live on. it is a living, breathing street that has other people and doggies living on it.

20 months old.

Mimicing

Sooo, Will basically repeats ANYTHING that anyone says, all the time. no rhyme or reason and will do it for or from anyone. today at day care, Ms. Lynn tripped and said 'Whoopsie Daisy' under her breath. Whoopsie Daisy just happens to be the silliest word ever, so that is the new fave now.

On the way home from school today, he started saying 'Ohh MANNNN!' to which we followed up by teaching him BUMMER!

Then, if I try to cue him to say something, I whisper the word in his ear. he thinks that he should then say it in a whisper. so, that's pretty fun too.

Morning Run

Woke up this am at 6 for my morning run. i HEART daylight savings. Sunny and gorgeous and ready for me to hit the pavement. love it.

anyway, while i was getting ready, i heard Will start stirring. dang, no run today. Wait! Why don't I take him with me?

Sooooo, I bundled him up in the jogger in the 25 degree weather and we headed off. had the best time, laughing singing, looking at horses, finding a tennis ball on the ground. everything. just the best time together.

there are a series of 4 horrible hills to get back up to our house. pushing the jogger up them is not the easiest thing in the world, to say the least. so, i ran/walk/jogged up, huffing and puffing. Will cheered me on 'go, mommy go!' so great.

we FINALLY limped into the driveway, with me totally exhausted. and will says 'MADE IT!'

done. made it all worth while. what a magical kiddo.

Halloween

Will went as a caveman this year for his first real Halloween. Thanks to Nana Niki, he was rarin' to go. all set in faux fur everything on his hat, etc. caveman 'club' and we were dialed.

got to our girlfriend Holly's for a little H-ween party and had such fun. surprisingly, will actually kept the costume on! he played and played.

then we went downtown. So, they close off the streets in steamboat and open it to all kids and trick or treaters. all the shopkeepers sit on their stoops and hand out candy and it is really about the best event in steamboat. pretty insane.

anyway, will's eyes were open wide from the moment we got out of the car and saw a clown ride his bike by us to walking through the haunted realtor office with me. (he could care less about the haunted). at the beginning, he was nervous and soaking it all in. then, after about 3 shops, he would wriggle his way through the line and hold his little bag and say 'twicker tweat'! then he would get a piece of candy and some darling smiles and he'd say 'dankkkk uuuu' and walk away and look into his basket and see what he got. pretty amazing.

niki and bill loved watching it all unfold. had a grand time. took photos and really loved spending time with will. will could care less about the scary costumes...he was more entranced by them. i spent lots of time explaining it all so he felt a part of it in his costume. now he loves his pumpkins at home and his candy bowl and everything. i am sure he thinks we will do this every saturday nite.

photos to come! oh, and, despite being totally wound up and amped up on sugar sat nite, he slept like a champ. all night and woke up, ready to take on the leaves and house cleanup on Daylight Savings Sunday!