Will-isms

Picking up where we left off in July...

1) (July) Eating dinner at Nagoya for Grandma Riedeman's birthday, Will looks at the menu and reads the word "beer". He then tells Craig "That says 'beer'. Can I have a beer?" He has no idea what beer is because it's never at our house. :)
2) (July) Driving in the car, we are playing Will's favorite game. It starts with "I'm thinking of a dinosaur that..." and then you give clues and other people have to guess it. I don't remember all of Will's clues, but on of them was that the dinosaur was a meat eater. So when Craig guessed "an Edmontasaurus?"... Will responded in this don't-be-ridiculous tone of voice: "I saaaaid it was a meat eater!" Duh, Craig. ;) And later, when it was Craig's turn, he told Will "I don't know, buddy. I'm running out of dinosaurs that I know." So Will said "I'll help you think of a new one... what about a Brontosaurus? We haven't done that one yet!" Craig said "Oh, I'm not sure what that looks like. How will I give you clues?" So then Will told Craig some descriptive details, Craig repeated them, and Will guessed it. Haha! :)
3) (August) This in not a Will-ism, but something funny our babysitter relayed to me. (It's actually a "Charli-ism"!) Will had dumped a bunch of board games out of their boxes on the living room floor and Lisa asked him to pick them up. When Will didn't start cleaning right away, the other little girl Charli jumped in to add: "I'm serious, Will. If you don't start listening, I will NOT marry you!" Charli is about 4 months younger than Will and they have been best buds since birth. (She is Jagger's younger sister.) Will recently told me that Charli was his girlfriend. Way to keep him in line, Char!!
4) (August) Papa Riedeman is asking Will about our most recent trip to the beach. He asks Will "How deep was the water? How far did you go out?" And Will responds: "It was up to my junk."
5) (August) Will announces to me this evening, just as Craig is about to give Will a bath: "The Riedeman men are ready for a bath... Craig Thomas Riedeman and William Dean Riedeman are ready to take a bath!"
6) (August) Craig sticks his head in my car to say goodbye to Will before we back out of the driveway. Will asks Craig "Why can I see more skin on some parts of your head and not others?" He started the sentence over several times and didn't know how exactly to ask it because he didn't know the word "scalp". But that's how it came out... and Craig responded "Well, because I'm losing my hair, buddy. Do you think you'll lose your hair some day?" Will says "yes". Craig asks him "How old will you be when you lose your hair?" Will replies "Probably about your age." :)
7) (August) We're telling silly "knock knock" jokes with Aunt Casey and after one of hers, Will told her "You're killin' me!" ;-)
8) (August) Swimming in Nana & Papa's pool, just the two of us, Will tells me (as we're hugging and swirling) "I love you, mommy. I love swimming in the pool with you. I'm gonna' marry you." Awww!! I tell him "That's so sweet, Will, but you know I'm already married don't you?" Will: "Yes".
Me: "To who? Who am I married to?"
Will: "Daddy".
Me: "That's right. And one day, you're going to meet a really nice girl who is smart and funny and beautiful. And you will love her. And then maybe you'll get married."
Will: "I'm going to marry Charli." :)
9) (August) Craig has a rule that the kids cannot play with toys (or leave them sit) on the leather chair because he's afraid they'll scratch it. So when he finds an abandoned toy sitting on the chair this day, he ask "Who left the toy sitting on the leather chair?" Will raised his eyebrows and said "Sophie did it... I can't explain that."
10) (August) Craig and I are having a conversation at the dinner table and we hear Will casually talking to himself... apparently listing steps for how to play with his farm animal toys. This is what we heard: "Step 1: walk over to the barn. Step 2: open the barn door and pick the animal you want to play with. Step 3: play with it." Haha! I think he was listing steps because of something similar we'd read in a library book recently.
11) (August) Will always comes upstairs to greet me in the mornings when he wakes. Most of the time I'm getting ready for work and he just chats with me for awhile and then goes downstairs to play with toys. I often remind him to get dressed when he goes and this morning he said "I'll meet you downstairs... okay, mama?" He just sounded very adult like!
12) (August) Talking to Craig about tractors and I think which ones he wants to own when he's bigger (?)... Will starts a sentence with "I'll tell you what, daddy..." Cracked us both up. :)
13) (August) Touring the new elementary school, we walk through the library and Will scrunches his eyebrows and asks me: "Sooo... do you think they have a dinosaur book in here? I'm confused."
14) (August) Will listed 3 big-named dinosaurs for me and then told me that they were "predators" of the Stirachosaurus (sp?). He's recently been curious about "predators" and "prey".
15) (August) Returning from the library, we are driving on the road perpendicular to ours. Will tells me "Our house will be on the right side of the road when we turn onto our road and Dana's [our across the street neighbor] will be on the left side". It amazes me that he can visualize that. He's known left and right for a long time now, but to be able to mentally visualize directions? I quizzed him with other people's houses we know too. Like, "when we drive to Lisa's house... is her house on the left or the ride sight of the street?" And he got it!
16) (August) Will told me he saw a new litle girl named Teagan at Lisa's house today. I asked who Teagan was... a baby? a big girl? Will said "No, she's two like Sophie and Jax. She's a 'toddler'".
17) (August) Will spells random words in the middle of conversation now (because he's heard us do it). For example, "Mommy, when will we see a C-A-T in our field again?" or "Do you think our D-O-G will scare it away?" (P.S. - this was August, but he's been spelling 3 letter words since probably late May/early June. But just recently, he's gotten really interested and good at spelling in general! 3 and 4-letter words are almost always correct... and he even makes a pretty great attempt at larger words too! It's that visualizing skill again... I can just see him picturing the word and sounding each part out in his head. My mom told me he spelled 'apple' the other day while eating them for lunch after school. He learned that, among others, from an alphabet/spelling toy we own.)
18) (August) Lately, whenever I ask Will to do something, his response is "Sure thing, mama!" :)
19) (September) A particularly warm day. Will says "Mom, it's a hot monkey outside!" (He got that from our babysitter. LOL)
20) (September) At a play date in the park with some friends, Will is amazed at how fast his new-ish friend Marley can run. She's five months older than Will and has much longer legs. :) After a little while playing tag, Will tells Marley's mom: "She's so fast! And she never gives up!" Then later that night at the dinner table, he asks me: "Mama, who do you think would win in a race... a cheetah or Marley?" Hahaha!!! The game continued after I laughed so hard, with other speed comparisons: "a giraffe or an elephant? a polar bear or a camel? a flamingo or a..." :)
21) (September) "Daddy, do you want to take an S-O-W-R [he means shower] with me tonight [instead of a bath]?" More spelling!
22) {September) I asked Craig "do we have any P-I-C-K-L-E spears?" I was packing lunch and didn't want to say it out loud 'cause I knew Will would ask for one. Craig was sitting there trying to visualize the word for a few seconds to figure out what I said... and Will asked me "did you just spell 'pickle'?" :) Craig looked amazed and baffled. He said "my 4-year-old got it before me"! Haha@ :)