P-Bill, Pillows, Sleeping Bag and Milk

1) Last night Will and I were downstairs, outside watering our fave little bed of flowers together. He holds the long watering wand and I control the water (thankfully). He loves to point it everywhere and get everything wet, and put his hand in front of the nozzle every once in a while. And we now have a cute little snake that has taken up residence in the flower bed - he suns himself and plays in the bark/mulch during the day and sleeps under the deck at night. Love it all. He is rad. (not sure why it is a 'he'. are there female snakes actually? their boobs would leave little grooves in the sand as they slithered along. heh.) Matt and Will named the snake Joey. So, we watered the plants and said hi to Joey (hiii, noey - in Will-speak). Will then decided to run over to the corner of the driveway and was looking intently at some piece of wood. I came over and asked him what he was looking at...'BILL', he said. I said 'Grampy Bill?' 'BILLLL'. Um. Oh! Right, that is where grampy bill taught will how to hammer the nails when he was here. Will was touching the nail and saying Bill. I asked him if P-Bill taught him to hammer and he said 'hammer'. We then went upstairs and were playing catch on the deck. Will ran over to a chair and said Billllll. I then realized that that is the chair that Grampy Bill sat in while he was here. Wow - had P-Bill on the brain today!

2) While having our after school snack on the couch last night, we were all sitting and enjoying each other and Will got on a tear. He was rolling around in the pillows and jumped up and decided to bring us the pillows so we could get a closer look. (: He got one pillow and brought it over to Matt and said 'Dada'. Got another and brought it to me and said 'Mama'. Then, got up on the couch, put his hands behind his head and leaned back on the third one and said 'Willllll'. (What color is Will's pillow? 'BLUE', he said.)

3) We bought Will his first sleeping bag this past weekend, in preparation for Hall Camping this weekend! Can't wait. And neither can Will, since he won't let the sleeping bag out of his sight. As Will says, it is 'lelllo'. (yellow) He sprints up to it and dives onto it, burying his face and rolling around on it. Fabulous. I keep telling him that this weekend we are going to sleep outside in our sleeping bags! He doesn't quite know what to do about that. His eyeballs are massive.

4) Sooo, we kinda realized that we need to get Will to drink less milk out of a bottle and more out of a sippy cup. At school, he drinks milk from his sippy cup all day. But at home, he loves the bottle. So, Matt and I decided to drop it cold turkey. He is pretty adaptable and good. So, this morning, I filled a sippy cup, heated it up and handed it to him. Furrowed brow - 'milk?' 'Yes, Will, today we will have milk in a sippy cup.' 'NOOOOOO!' He put it on the floor and walked away. I walked over to him and sat next to him on the couch, while he stood. I looked him in the eye and said 'I'm sorry, honey, I realized I didn't explain this to you. There comes a time when people don't drink out of bottles anymore and drink out of cups....' I explained it all and ended with 'so, that's why we should have milk from a sippy cup during the day now.' He looked at me and then away. I gave him a squeeze, got up and walked away. Glanced over my shoulder...he had grabbed the sippy cup, gotten up on the couch, laying back on a pillow and drinking from the sippy cup. He just needed to know why. I don't blame him.