mama's birthday

soooo yesterday was my (Mom/Robin's) birthday. greatgreat day, thanks to matt and will and the doggies! wooohoo!

Anyway, we woke up and I said 'Will, guess what today is?!' he got all excited. oh, wait, this is how the morning went down. slight deviation...

So, i hit the alarm at 5:30am cause i didn't sleep so well. no workout before work for me. finally get outta bed at 6:45. turn on the shower and start to hear some rustling through the monitor from Master Will. Matt and Rocky are still in 3rd stage REM. Atlas is whining already (welcome to our world). then as I am getting out of the shower, I hear shreiks of joy and laughter and this boom-boom-boom coming from will's room - right across the hall from our room and the bathroom.

i peek in, dying to know what is going on. he has his hands on the side of his crib and is jumping up and down in the crib. screaming and smiling. HILARIOUS. he was sooo happy and raring to go. (no, he can't fall out, don't worry)

so, anyway - 'Will, guess what today is?! Mama's Birthday!' He gets very exited - does he remember his first birthday? Hm. Anyway, milk, car, day care drop off. Afternoon comes and matt and I (after an amazing 20 mile bike ride together - snuck outta work early...actually, didn't sneak, everyone was so stoked for us to get in a good ride. so great) picked him up at day care on bikes. That is his FAVE thing ever. he sees me walk in in my biking shoes (more on that later) and says bike?! I say, 'yes will, we are on bikes!' he b-line's directly for the front door of daycare and literally RUNS to the bike parking area. gets into his little trailer and is ready to go. gave him some squirts of our gatorade, which he loved. then daddy said 'we are surprising mommy and going on a PICNIC!' to which will said 'Hop birdee'. i.e. Happy Birthday. Wow. so, we headed to the park for the most amazing french picnic, thansk to Matt - brought a rugby ball and a blanket. a bottle of rose, some baguette, our fave chocolate, etc. Just an AMAZING birthday. soo fun! we played and laughed and had amazing food. headed home and had bath time, then off to bed...for all of us! we were pooped!

couple of other gems about master will.

So, he is MORE than obsessed about shoes. People can't be in the house without shoes on, in Will's mind. So, if you take yours off, he goes and gets them and brings them to you and makes you put them on. He knows which shoes are mama's and which are dada's. He runs around saying 'shoes, shoes'. He says 'Crocs' for his crocs that he wears every day. says 'wip-wops' for his flip flops.

he also has started pronouncing things a little better. amazing! like, he always said 'bubbies' for bubbles. just yesterday, on a whim, he said 'bubbles', so now it is bubbles. and bikes were always 'bikeys', now they are bikes. crazy.

he is best friends with a little boy Owen at school. Everything is 'Owennn'. he carries toys in from the car in the morning just to show them to owen. and when they see each other, they both do a little high-pitched scream and run off playing together. owen's mom, Lisa, said they were driving into town the other day and Owen was saying 'Willllllllll'. She was so excited. we need to get together with them on the weekends.

lastly, i have been telling will that we are going to cambodia - sooo interesting explaining countries to him. 'we live in our house on Uncocheif street. that street is in steamboat. in US. we are going outside of us to cambodia. and arthur lives in france. and grandma debs lives in California. etc.etc.' he soaks it all in. anyway, we are going to cambodia to see a little boy named Shai. 'Shyyyyy', he says. So, I say cambodia about once a day now and whenever he hears it he says 'SHHHHhhyyyyy'. amazing. going to teach him to say hello in cambodian as well.