Will-isms

Ooo-eee! It's been since March for my last Will-isms post! The boy is making entirely too much sense most of the time anymore that I'm not collecting these as quickly. ;)

1) (Apr) Sophie is sitting in her high chair pushed up to the table while we're eating dinner and twisting her body to try to climb out after she finished eating. Will's always trying to mimic our parenting, so after several times of her not listening, he said "Sophie, we're just trying to protect you. You need to listen to us when we tell you to sit down."
2) (Apr) Will is already in the bath tub as I am getting a fussing Sophie into the tub too. Will already has both of the little, plastic shovels (the prized tub toys at the time) in hand and knows Sophie will probably be jealous. He says to her: "Sophie, since you're sad, do you want the yellow shovel?" After she ignores him for a moment, he presses on: "Yes? Would you?" Well I don't remember if she ever answered him, but I was feeling a moment of pride in my boy... until he finished with: "Well, I had it first" in this gentle "too bad" sort of voice.
3) (Apr) Not a "Will-ism", but a funny side note... Casey went shopping for Will & Sophie's birthday presents at a learning toys store. She found a cool interactive learning activity for Will called Hot Dots in which there are many topics to select from. The store clerk was trying to help Casey select something that would be age appropriate for a 3-4 year old and Casey kept insisting that he needed something at a 2nd grade level. :) The lady brought her games that taught colors and shapes, etc. So Casey informed the lady, "Ma'am, the other day he told me that a giraffe was diurnal... this is not going to cut..." :) Haha! She ended up selecting something with phonics.
4) (Apr) Craig comes in from grilling to say the burgers are done and Will is so excited for this dinner. He says "Daddy, I love you! I'm gonna' give you a hamburger hug!"
5) (Apr) "Mommy, when I toot... that's how I keep you away from me."
6) (Apr) Craig: "Did the Easter Bunny come to our house?"
Will: "Ya. He brought baskets and hid eggs."
Craig: "How did he get in here?"
Will: "I don't know... he's sneaky!"
7) (May) Craig was venting to me about something that was annoying him and he used the word "stupid". Will said "Daddy, don't say 'stupid'. It's not a nice word." Craig said "You're right, buddy. That was bad wasn't it?" Will told Craig, "You're not a bad person, daddy, but we don't say 'stupid'."
8) (May) On the way home from Grandpa King's birthday dinner out, I'm looking through the pictures on my camera. We took a big group picture before leaving the restaurant and I was pleased to see that Will had smiled (a little) like I asked him to. I told him, "Thank you for smiling in our picture, Will. You look really nice." Will responded, "Thank you for eating so much, mommy."
9) (June) At dinner, Will is announcing all the things he's going to do after we finish eating. And then he finishes with: "...so you're just gonna' have to deal with that." Whoa! Mouthy! I don't think he meant it the way it sounded. :)
10) (June) Will and I are discussing what we have growing in our garden. We're discussing herbs and I explain to him that they help us to flavor our food. Will says: "Ooh! I know what we should grow in our garden! We should grow ketchup!" :) I tell him ketchup doesn't just grow, it's made from tomatoes. I have since looked up a recipe for homemade ketchup for us to try.
11) (June) Daddy is telling Will he needs to take some medicine for a headache and neck ache that's been bothering him. Will said "I need to take some medicine too". Craig told him "We only take medicine if we really need to when we're sick. Are you sick?" Will said "Yes, I keep burping so much!" He really wasn't but we had just finished dinner.
12) (June) Will is playing outside with daddy while I'm in the kitchen making dinner. He runs in in a panic and tells me: "Mama! There's a spiderweb in your basil!" Haha. I'm more amused that he remembered which herb was basil!
13) (July) Will is playing with his dinosaur figurines when Craig comes downstairs one morning. Will holds one up and tells Craig: "Daddy, I know this is a parasaurolophus, but I'm gonna' pretend it's a stigamolic [sp?] 'cause I don't have one of those." :)
14) (July) Sophie is whining about something for quite awhile and Will is clearly tired of it. He says (in a tired, exasperated sort of way), "Zip it, Sophie!" We say that do the dog, sometimes.
15) (July) For awhile now, Will has corrected us whenever we say a strong negative word. AS soon as he hears it, he will say "Mama (or Daddy), it's not nice to say stupid (or ugly or hate)."
16) (July) Another common phrase out of Will is: "I have an excellent idea!" followed by whatever the said idea may be.
17) (July) Driving home from Cleveland, we are about 30 minutes from home and Will and Sophie are talking and being silly in their seats. Suddenly, Will urgently says: "Slam on the brakes! I have to go pee!" :) Craig and I about died laughing. We pulled off on a country side road and he peed on the side of the road.
18) (July) We've discussed and told our phone number to Will before but never very thoroughly tried to teach it. Randomly, while playing with a toy phone, he asks: "Mama, is our phone number (xxx) xxx-xxxx?" He was correct! And he said it so quickly and casually... I was shocked!
19) (July) Playing at our friends' camp site, I spot some little dinosaur figurines. Will is playing a game with our little friend and I'm showing Sophie the little dinosaurs and telling her their names. I'm pretty sure one is a spinosaurus, but I decide to ask Will. The thing is only about the size of my thumb and I hold it up for him to see. I ask "Is this a spinosaurus, Will?" He glances up quickly and says "yes"... then immediately, "No! That's a dimetrodon." (They look similar.) I ask him, "How do you know?" His response? "Because a spinosaurus walks on 2 legs and a dimetrodon walks on 4 legs." Sure enough, this dinosaur was walking on 4 legs. :) His memory astounds me.
20) (July) Whenever Will doesn't nap well or falls asleep late at the sitters, he's often in a whiny, grumpy sort of mood when I pick him up. Think: lots of scowling and disagreeing with everything everyone says. On this particular day, it was scorching hot outside and I'd broken a sweat just loading the kids into their car seats while wearing my work clothes. As we pull away, I cheerfully say "Wow! It's hot today! What do you say we go home and get a really big glass of ice water?" Will protests in a very whiny voice: "Noooo! I want a medium-size glass!" Of course he does. :) Stinker.