Will-isms Part 4

Almost two months has gone by since my last Will-isms post and the funnies never end with him...

1) (Jan) Will comes to tell me he NEEDS a new toy. So we go to his closet and he takes forever to choose his farm flash cards from way back when. I tell him to carry them to the living room to play with. He starts to do so, carrying the cards in his right hand but then stops in the doorway, turns to me and says "Wait. I need another new toy for my left hand."
2) (Jan) At Lisa's house, Will kept asking her "What do you think, Lisa?"... "Lisa, what do you think?" She had no idea why he was asking.
3) (Jan) Also at Lisa's house, Will came up and "knocked" on Lisa's behind. He said "knock, knock". She asked "who's there?" He said "William Dean Riedeman".
4) (Jan) Will was asking to go to Nana's school. She's taken him there a couple times when she goes to clean and he likes to play with the toys. He'll be going there this fall for preschool! Anyway, I tell him he has to be 3 years old and that that's after his next birthday. I also tell him he has to go potty on the big potty before he can go to school. He seemed to understand, so I asked him "so when are you going to Nana's school?" and he said "when I'm 3 numbers old".
5) (Jan) At dinner (a LOT of our funnies are at the dinner table), we're eating salads with chicken strips in them. He almost dropped some salad from his fork and said "WHOA! That was a close one!"
6) (Jan) At Lisa's house, her son Ryan couldn't see Will standing in the kitchen. Ryan asked Lisa "where's Will?" and Will pointed to himself and said "he's right HERE!"
7) (Jan) Will waits till after his bath, clean diaper and jammies to poop in his diaper. I change him and then let him run around pants and diaper-less while I dispose of the stinky diaper and wash my hands. Then I brush his teeth and do a couple things while he's still diaper-free. Brutus is standing in the bathroom with us and, though I didn't see this happen, Will said "No, doggy. Don't lick my junk!" I thought I hear him wrong so I said "what did you say?" and he said again "I said nooooo licking my junk, doggy!" I about died laughing.
8) (Jan) Loading him into his car seat in the morning, Will says to Craig (in the driver's seat) "no more spicy pickles daddy!" Craig had given him a Packo pickle the night before and I guess it was a little too spicy because his eyes got big and he had a "whoa!" look on his face and he said "I need my milk mommy!" So out of no where the next morning, he remembered and made a point to tell us no more. He'd been loving pickles lately, though.
9) (Feb) Pulling into the garage on the way home from Lisa's house, Will says to me "don't bump into daddy's screwdriver box, mommy!" Craig got a new Snap-On tool box which is kept on the complete opposite side of the garage and I was no where near it. :)
10) (Feb) Will is missing a puzzle piece (the letter Z) to his alphabet puzzle. Daddy and Will are hunting around for it and Will is saying "Zeeeee! Where are you Z?"
11) (Feb) Nana gave Will a Thomas the Train Pez dispenser for Valentine's Day. Will doesn't realize yet that Pez is candy. He holds up the packets of Pez and says to me "these are the batteries for Thomas, mommy."
12) (Feb) Will: "Where's Imagination Station?"
Craig: "Toledo"
Will: "Don't say Toledo, daddy. That's not funny." (Umm... okay... He's got a weird thing about telling Craig what not to say sometimes.)
13) (Feb) Sitting at dinner, totally random, Will says "Mommy, I'm not afraid of big dogs." Around that time (and still currently), he has an obsession with talking about things he's not afraid of, especially at bedtime. He'll ask me as I'm tucking him in "mommy, what I'm not afraid of?" He especially talks about a big, red elephant and dogs. Once he even woke up crying in the middle of the night and was talking about the big, red elephant. And sometimes at bedtime, he'll tell us to scare away the big, red elephant and the dogs. Will has a pair of socks that have a little, black bear on the sides. Craig once told him the bears on his socks will protect him and scare away the things he's afraid of. So last night, after Will completed his ritual of taking OFF his socks, he whined for Craig through the door to put his bear socks back ON. Hmm... I wonder what has spawned this sudden discussion of fear... especially with certain animals. He LOVES animals! And I have NO clue what the big, red elephant is from.
14) (Feb) Proof that Will is Craig's son: "Mommy, do you want to make me some food, mommy?" Hehe. Notice he put "mommy" before AND after the sentence. He does that a lot and I love it.
15) (Feb) At dinner, I tell Will I have a special dessert for him when he finishes eating. He asks me what it is and I tell him it's a rice krispy treat. He eats a little more and then says "okay, I'm ready for my rice Christmas tree". :)
16) (Feb) Randomly at dinner, Will says "I'm the coolest boy in the jungle". (Diego reference?)
17) (Feb) Lately Will pronounces his sister's name "SO-phi-a" instead of "So-PHI-a" (he puts the stress on the 'SO' and then the 'phia' follows quicker and softer).
18) (Feb) I've been doing a lot of little learning activities with Will lately. For some reason he has trouble with this word (it's rare for him to stumble on a word anymore) and asks to do an "ah-tin-i-tee". One of our games is playing with buttons, which he calls "buddons". I love that he's separating the "big buddons" from the "baby buddons".
19) (Feb) At bedtime, I hear Will singing to himself in his room. He sings the "Rescue Pack" song from Diego, the Dora theme song, Nana's "Days of the Week" song, and then starts counting in Spanish. I tried getting the video camera by his door so I could record it. You can hear him, but I'm basically just filming the door. :)
20) (Feb) At Nana's house, Will wakes up from his nap and walks to the balcony to see the three baby girls playing in the living room below. He says in a very sing-song voice "I SEE you, Sophia! I'm coming to GET you! You're my SISTER!" :)

If you have a little one at home, I really encourage you to jot down their words, pronunciations and slogans! It is SO fun to look back on these!