Growing up

Our little William is so much fun as he continues to develop and mature. The last few months he has developed his language skills significantly. He has a lot to tell us and the fun part is that we can actually understand him, well most the time. Some of the fun things he says are whoa, Ramon (who is my brother Nate's American pit who Wills loves and who loves Wills), outside, thank you, please, sorry, poopy and many many others. We have pictures of my brother Dave and sister Rachel on our fridge and Wills points to them and says their names. He was looking at pictures and my mom's house and pointed to himself and said I I.

One of the funniest language stories about Wills so far is that he will tell us he has a poopy to get out of something. Nick put him in bed the other night and Wills told him he had a poopy so Nick pulled him back out had me check and Wills was clean. We both got a really good laugh at how smart Wills is. We are both really enjoying communicating with our silly boy.

Recently William has also been struggling with being left in the nursery. We think it is a stage in his life because this hasn't ever been an issue in the past. I guess I should also note that he HATES to be contained in any space but especially a small one which also makes nursery hard. I believe another part of this stage in his development is that he tells and shows us every time he gets hurt. He is pretty tough usually be he will frequently come up to me pouting and showing me some injury which he wants sympathy for. I love to comfort my little baby. It is fun to have that magical mommy touch.

Wills is also becoming independent on the play structure. For the first time in 19 months I haven't followed or carried him around the playground. He walked all over by himself and even went down the big big slide. I was a little nervous when he got the top but he did fabulously. He climbs all over the play structure. There isn't any item he won't try to climb.

There are so many fun moments in Wills life and I can't believe how fast time is going by. We are really excited about having another little baby to watch grow up and play with Wills. Speaking of which we recently had an ultrasound of our little munchin and the baby seems to be doing well. We had decided not to find out the sex of the baby and the baby kept it's legs crossed so we won't find out what we are having till birth.

Wills and I were really excited that Daddy was home the other day so we were jumping up and down a little and the baby in my tummy did a flip. It was pretty cute. I told Nick that all three of us were excited to see him.

William climbed around the speaker and on the subwoofer and then play computer. He really enjoys climbing.

Lauren's blanket

My Friend Lauren from PA sent Wills this handmade quilt when he was born. I kept meaning to take a picture of it for her and I just recently got around to it. Here is the little man and his quilt that he loves. Thanks a bunch Laur we love you!

teeth

he really fit pretty nicely in the sink. I was also thankful to see him sitting and not standing.

Sometime in January we noticed Wills chipped tooth turning brown so we took him to the dentist to make sure everything was ok. Fortunately she said discoloring was normal and that it looked like it wasn't a cavity and he would probably be fine. She mentioned possible repair work in the future but for now just to keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't get infected. All this to say her other instructions were to keep it clean. Wills enjoys brushing his teeth and he and daddy have a routine they follow every night. I know this because he tries to incorporate it in our morning teeth brushing. Wills runs to the bathroom several times a day and says teeth. One particular day while I was doing dishes it was unusually quiet, any mother knows that is a clear sign of trouble, so I went in search of Wills. Here is where I found him.

This is how he gets on the sink. He climbs onto the toilet and then pulls himself onto the sink. Pretty impressive!
He sure does love toothpaste.

the "big" bed

Wills loves to goof around pretty much anywhere. Any time after a shower he jumps up on the "big bed" and jumps around. He lays himself down on the pillow pulls the blankets up and says nigh nigh. He then laughs and jumps up. He sure is fun and so cute. This particular day he didn't want me to make the bed, which is my usual occupation while he is jumping around (you can imagine how well that works :), so I grabbed the camera (for the purpose of this particular post) and decided to take a few pictures. Wills wanted to see every picture after I took them so I decided to get in on the action and take them of us both.Not such a bad close up for not being able to see

hanging with Kate

The other day Kate came over to play for a couple hours while Chrisy did some errands. Kate is my oldest brother Dan's youngest daughter. She is 8 months older then Wills. Other than the normal squabbles that kids have they had fun together. Here they were hanging out in his crib together.