Will-isms Part 5

Here we go again! :)

1) (Feb) Will is coming up from the basement carrying his toy drum.
Me: "Really, buddy? Why did you feel the need to bring that up now?" (We have dinner guests.)
Will: "I'm going to take it into the living room so I can show everyone how to drum."
Logical enough I guess...
2) (Mar) Getting ready to go for a walk with the wagon. (It's sunny and beautiful out today!) Will asks "Is doggy going for a walk too?" I say "I don't know. Why don't you ask him?" So he goes to squat down beside Brutus and asks "Do you want to go for a walk, Brutus?... Yes?..." Then he turns to me and says "he does." Apparently Will can interpret dog language now and has elected himself as Brutus's personal representative. (By the way, Brutus made absolutely no response to the question. :)) Later on our walk with Will & Brutus both sitting in the wagon (Sophie was in the carrier), I hear him ask Brutus "Are you cold, Brutus?... No?" And then to me: "He's warm, mommy." And a few seconds later: "Do you think it's bumpy, Brutus?... Yes?..." And to me: "It's bumpy, mommy." LOL
On our walk we pass a friends house (a friend of my parents - Will doesn't know her well). She's outside and calls "hello" to us. I say hello back and Will asks "Who's that, mommy?" I say "That's Jean. Why don't you say hello to her?" He calls out "Hi Jean! I have a magazine Jean!" (He's carrying one of his beloved catalogs.) A little further down the road he says "Mommy, I like Jean."
We walk in the neighborhood so there's not a lot of traffic. But whenever a car goes by, Will tells me "Whoa! That was close!" So I use this opportunity to talk about traffic safety, staying away from the road and looking both ways.
3) (Mar) I go in to put Will back in bed after I find him laying on the floor by his door at night. I'm kind of OCD about his blankets being straight and folded just so when I tuck him in. So I walk around to the other side to straighten the covers and Will says "I like you, mommy." Sometimes that's a special change of pace from "love". I say "I like you too, Will. You're my favorite boy in the whole world."
4) (Mar) Will has gotten much better at using his manners. He says please much more frequently and, if he forgets, I simply say "that's not how you ask, buddy" and he'll rephrase it to "can I..." or "may I...yada, yada, yada... please?" Just this week, he has really improved his "you're welcome" usage and frequency too. It makes me smile when he responds "you're welcome, mommy" to my "thank you".
5) (Mar) At Lisa's house, Will comes up to Lisa to say "Charli hit William Dean Riedeman... but he's okay." I guess he speaks in the third person now? Craig says that means he's going to be a wide receiver. :)
6) (Mar) Another night of picking Will up off the floor and putting him back in bed. I kiss him and tell him I love him and he says "You're the nicest lady in the whole world, mommy."
7) (Mar) "I want to go to Great Grandma's house on Sunday." (Why Sunday? I don't know.)
8) (Mar) At bedtime, daddy asks Will "how many kisses do you want from daddy?" Will says "3". (That's their routine: 1 on each cheek and 1 on the forehead.) Then daddy asks "how many kisses do you want from mommy?" Will says "21"! I normally do a silly combo of eskimo, fish and butterfly kisses... but this time I followed Craig's lead and did 7 on each cheek and 7 on his forehead. Will was very pleased with this as proven by his cheesy grin.
9) (Mar) Will and I are reading Brown Bear, Brown Bear and I am encouraging him to fill in the parts he knows (which is most of it). When he stumbles, I fill in and then he finishes. Once when he paused, he was apparently just feeling thoughtful and said to me "don't talk for a little bit, okay mommy?" Then he "read" a little bit more and said "okay, now you can talk, mommy." :)
10) (Mar) Playing with his matchbox cars, Will says to me "thank you for the cars that daddy bought at the store, mommy... he's a really nice guy." Not sure why I received the thank you, but I made sure to pass it along to Craig. :)
11) (Mar) In the bath tub, Will and I are discussing his three bath tub trains that squirt water from their smokestacks (very fun). He has a blue one (Thomas), a green one (Percy) and a red one (Salty). He tells me "The red train is Salty, not James, mommy". (James is Will's favorite and both James and Salty are red.) I say "Oh really? How do you know? How can you tell them apart?" He said "James has a circle head". (He means "face".) I picked up Salty and noted his square face. I was floored! Did he really just make that differentiation? I kept saying "Wow, buddy! You're right!" And we talked about Thomas and Percy's round faces too. I later found out that Craig is the one that pointed out the round vs square faces to Will as a way to tell them apart. So, okay, Will didn't come up with that on his own... but he remembered it! Way to go, daddy, for teaching him to notice details!
12) (Mar) Will has started using the word "actually" and it's so funny because he sounds so mature. At lunch today, he was discussing hippos and rhinos and elephants and inquiring about where they live. I said we'd need to make a trip to the zoo soon and read about it. He was telling me that rhinos like to walk in the tall grass (do they?) and that "actually, giraffe live in the tall grass too!" It was so cute and funny to hear him make that transition with such a big word. Another time, after reading our standard two books at bedtime, I say "okay, it's time to say our prayers!" Will replies "Actually, we need to read the ant book first". (The Ants Go Marching) He cracks me up with this "actually" word!
13) (Mar) I'm feeling frustrated because Will woke up from nap after just an hour (his norm is usually two hours) and I didn't get much quiet time to myself. I immediately take him to the potty so we can switch back to underwear for the afternoon. (He's doing really great with this!) So we're both sitting in the bathroom waiting for him to pee and I'm telling him I really wished he would have slept longer today.
Will: (interrupting me cheerfully) "Listen mommy! I can hear my pee!"
Me: "I hear it too, buddy! I'm so proud of you!"
Will: "Thank you, mommy." (He is unfaltering with his manners these days.)
Then, after washing hands, getting underwear on and sticker on the chart, we walk out and he tells me "Remember... shhh! Sophie's still sleeping, mommy!" How can I be frustrated with this kid? He's being sweet as pie. He doesn't deserve my attitude, so I'll change it. At least I'm giving up free time to be with the cutest, little stinker on the planet.
14) (Mar) Craig's working out in the basement tonight and Will wants to go down to watch. He observes the P90X workout Craig is doing and says "You're really strong at push ups, daddy... You're so strong!... You're really strong and pull ups, daddy." Ha - I'm sure Craig was flattered to be admired by his boy. Craig's been jokingly showing Will how to do sit ups, push ups and leg press recently.
15) (Mar) Will's been allowed to watch and episode of Nick Jr TV tonight after bath. After I get Sophie to bed, I walk out as a new shoe (Backyardigans?) is starting. I say "Okay, buddy, time to turn it off. I want to play a new game with you before we read our bedtime books." Will says "No, mommy, you need to pause it!" Is it sad that this new generation of children is aware of the fact that it's possible to pause life TV??
16) (Feb/Mar?) Will is super interested in Lightning McQueen from the Cars movie today. He just keeps saying it, singing it and carrying around the toy. The funny part is how he says it... It keeps coming out "Light-mon Na-clean" or just "Light Ma-clean". Haha!
17) (Mar) Will's latest slogan (and response any time I question him about why he did something wrong) is "Because I did"... i.e.:
Me: "Why did you pee on the floor, Will?"
Will: "Because I did"
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Me: "Why did you take all of Sophie's books off her shelf and leave them on the floor?"
Will: "Because I did"
Nice, huh? I don't think he's trying to be mouthy or rude, but it sure sounds like it!
18) (Mar) I love that Will makes connections between real life and something he's learned previously. For example, this morning, Will came upstairs while I was getting ready for work. We always have him sit on the potty first thing when he wakes up now. I was brushing my teeth so I said "Why don't you get your pants down and then I'll help you get on the potty?" He started to unbutton his jammy top so I said "No, buddy, you can leave the top on. Just pull off the bottoms." He looked at me thoughtfully and said "that's from Pajama Time, mommy?" At first I didn't know what he meant but then remembered the line from the Sandra Boynton book we've been reading: "Pull on the bottoms. Put on the top. We can all pajammy in whatever we've got. It's Pajama Time!" I praised his memory and praised him again after he peed on the potty. He told me he wanted to wear underwear so I asked him to go get them from his room. He did... along with the Pajama Time book. :) So we paused our morning routine to read it.
19) (Mar) "Hippty hippty hop, the mouse ran up the clock. The little dog laughed to see such a sight and the dish ran away with the spoon." LOL We're confusing nursery rhymes and Easter songs?
20) (Mar) While brushing his teeth before bed, Will pats his bottom and asks "Is this my butt, mommy?" I say "yes". He says "Daddy calls it my booty".
21) (Mar) Reading one of his favorite books "Down By the Station" (about a little train that collects all the baby animals at the zoo from their mommy and daddy and takes them to the children's zoo area), Will tells me that "the baby elephant is called a calf, just like a cow!" Again, making logical connections between things he knows. He's VERY good at all the baby animal names: calf, cub, joey, chick, foal, hatchling, etc.
22) (Mar) After he goes potty on Saturday mornings, Will occasionally gets to watch one episode of Dora while I feed Sophie and get breakfast ready. I'm reminding him of this by saying "we're only watching ONE Dora, okay?" He says "One episode, mommy?" Okay, so he knows the word episode AND he knows you can pause live TV... Sounds like a junky to me!
23) (Mar) Will has gotten pretty good at trying to redirect Sophie when she trys to play with one of his toys. He'll say something like "Come on, Sophie! (cheerfully) Let's go play with your music table!" Haha :) If that doesn't work, he'll say "No Sophie, go back to your room". And if that doesn't work, he'll tell me "Mommy, Sophie's tired. She wants to go to bed." LOL
24) (Mar) Getting diaper and jammies on for bed, Will says "Mommy, I have a hole in my butt!" I laughed pretty hard at that one and he didn't seem to get what was so funny.
25) (Mar) Craig is driving the kids over to Lisa's before work this morning. Will coughs a couple times and Craig asks him "What are you supposed to do when you cough? Where are you supposed to cough?" Will's response: "Supposed to cough in my elbow... not on the coffee table". Haha! Not sure where that came from or if he was really just making a cough/coffee connection. LOL
26) (Apr) Easter morning and Craig's calling Will to get dressed. Will is busy picking up some toys (a task I had just asked him to do) and tells this to Craig. Craig says to him "Why don't you come get dressed first and then you can finish picking up?" Will tells Craig again that he's going to pick up toys first and Craig says (a little more sternly) "No, you're going to get dressed first". In a very parent-like tone, Will says "Don't tell me no, daddy". :)
27) (Apr) At Great Grandma's house (for Easter), Will always enjoys playing with a little box of matchbox cars she keeps for the kids. One of the wheels falls off a car and Will is trying to put it back on. Papa is sitting beside him and asks "uh-oh, did it break buddy?" And Will says "Ya, Papa, I need a screwdriver". LOL
28) (Apr) Sophie's opening her basket from the Rethmans and Will simply can't sit back and watch. He's trying to grab some of her things and I tell him he needs to back up and let Sophie open her own basket because it's HER turn now. Will asks very sweetly "Can I share, mommy?" Haha! We've been talking a lot about sharing recently and usually it's in regards to Will's inability to share HIS toys with Sophie when she's interested in them. So it's funny that he thinks HE'S sharing HER belongings here.
29) (Apr) We removed Will's tie when he was going to eat a snack at Great Grandma's house. Then later when I wanted to take a picture, I handed Will his tie and asked him to please ask Nana if she would help him put it back on. Will took it to Nana and asked "Can you put my green scarf on, Nana?"
30) (Apr) Will has a little ritual of pointing to and spelling out the letters that say "Grand Cherokee" on the side of my Jeep before I load him into his car seat. He also likes to spell "Welcome" on the rug outside our porch. So as we were leaving grandma's on Easter, he spelled Grand Cherokee and then told me"This spells 'Welcome to our Car'!
31) (Apr) At dinner, Will had a rather unusual conversation with Craig:
Will: "You're a bad man, daddy." (He said it like 'baaaaad' as though he meant tough.)
Craig: "I'm a bad man?"
Will: "You're a dangerous man."
Craig: "Who told you that?"
Will: "Mommy."
I have never said anything of the sort. :)
32) (Apr) I'm getting dinner ready while Will works on a rhyming words game/puzzle. Each time he makes a match, he comes running into the kitchen and says "special delivery!", which comes out "special livery".

I also have one little Sophie-ism to report too... one of the first in her notebook. Upstairs one weekend morning after I finish nursing her and she's waiting for her daddy to pick her up to go downstairs. I won't name names (to protect the innocent) but somebody farted and, upon hearing it, Sophie immediately made a fart noise (like a raspberry) with her mouth! LOL :)