Sticky News

One cute thing that Will's Kindergarten class does is 'Sticky News.' The children at a certain table are given the opportunity to share anything they want with the class. Then, this information is written down on a big piece of 2 inch wide masking tape, and the kids get to wear it the rest of the day. I haven't been keeping them, or keeping track of them up to this point, but today realized they might make some cute memories! So, starting today I'm going to write down the date and Will's 'Sticky News.' Then I'll post this at the end of the school year!

(I just realized that this post would show up in order of the date it was started, regardless of when it was officially posted. So, since there is no point in waiting until the end of the year, I will just post it right now and edit it each time he gets a turn to do 'Sticky News'.)

10/17/06
"I like to play Pokemon with my brother Matthew."

10/25/06
"Today Jim is coming to the museum with me."

11/3/06
"I got a medal for soccer and baseball."

11/20/06
"I'm going on a trip to see my grandma."

11/30/06
"I want to have a snowball fight."

12/11/06
"When I wrestle with my dad, sometimes we all try to get on top of him."

12/19/06
"I have a Ninja Turtle movie from my birthday."

My role (at least to Will).

William has been fascinated lately with people's career titles (i.e. Daddy is a lawyer, Grandma is a teacher, etc...) versus 'just regular people.' He and Warren had a long conversation the other day about Will's desire to 'not be anything Dad, I just wanna be a regular person.'

Today in the car, we revisited this theme.

William: "Mom, you're not anything, right?"
Me: "What do you mean?"
William: "Well, you're not an army guy, you're not a worker or anything."
Me: "Well, I do have a job. Do you know what that job is?"
William: "You take care of our family's kids."
Me: "Yes, I do that. I also cook all of our food, and keep our house nice, and take you places."
William: "So, you're sort of like a servant?"

I couldn't really say anything to that!!! Luckily, my own opinion of the importance of what I do for our family does not hinge on the views of my five year old!!! :-)

Boys

This entire week (since last Tuesday), William has been sick. It started out with a low grade fever on Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning he didn't have a fever, so I sent him to school. By Wednesday afternoon I realized it had been a mistake for him to go to school! He was curled up on the couch - anyone who knows Will, knows that this is utterly NOT like him! Anyhow, he had a fever of 102! He stayed home from school sick on Thursday and Friday. By Saturday he didn't have a fever anymore, so I let him do some 'normal' Saturday things. He played in a soccer game and went to a birthday party. That evening he started coughing - a terrible, rack your entire body, deep-chest cough. I finally took him to the doctor yesterday (Tuesday) and he was diagnosed with 'walking pnemonia.' When I gave him the first dose of antibiotic, he promptly threw it up all over my kitchen floor. So, I bathed him and gave him another dose - which he threw up about 15 minutes later...... So, today I gave him the medicine mixed with chocolate pudding, as per the nurses suggestion! So far it's staying down. Hopefully he doesn't get sick again, because I NEED him to go to school tomorrow. An entire week of Will's energy mixed with WAY TOO MUCH television and I'm at the end of my rope! Today a movie from Netflix arrived. I loved watching 'Pollyanna' as a little girl and hoped to share the joy with my little boys. Warren just rolled his eyes when he saw what the movie was. He likes to remind me that, 'you remember we're raising BOYS, right?' This afternoon I asked Will if he wanted to watch it and this was our conversation:
Me: "Oh, look Will, a movie came in the mail, do you want to watch it?"
Will: "Does it have shooting?"
Me: "No."
Will: "Does it have fighting?"
Me: "No."
Will: "Does it have any bad guys?"
Me: "No."
Will: "Um, I don't think I'll like it."
:-) Boys! :-)

Split decisions...

Since Nate and Drew have preschool in the afternoons, Will and I have 2 hours free to spend together. Sometimes we do something fun (yesterday I took he and a buddy to the Children's museum). Two days ago, however, we had to do something terrible. Prepare yourself for this news: we had to run some errands at the MALL!!! Talk about little boy torture! :-) As I was breaking the news of our afternoon plan to Will, I thought I would try to sweeten the deal by telling him that if he was well-behaved that I would take him on the merry-go-round. He remembered that there were some other ride-on type toys at the mall as well. I told him that he could choose whether he wanted to go on those rides or the merry-go-round. He sighed and said,"It's such a hard cedision." He repeated it several times, realizing that it didn't sound quite right, but not realizing why. Finally I said, "decision" and he said, "yeah, I have a hard time with that word". He is so cute!!!

Sweet & Sour Prayers

Today before breakfast, Matt was reprimanded for something or other (very minor, not a big deal at all). A few minutes later, we all sat down to eat, and Will was asked to give the prayer. It went something like this:

"Dear Heavenly Father, please bless Matt that he can stop being naughty. Please bless him to remember to make good choices and to listen to mommy and daddy. Please bless the food. Amen."

I had the hardest time not laughing! Sly is the 2nd oldest child in finding ways to get at his older brother! :-)

WackyWilliam

Dogs at Preschool?

This happened several months ago, but I thought it was too cute!

So, last week, Will is getting his stuff together for preschool. I remind him that it's show and tell day and this week he is to bring either a toy animal or a picture of an animal. William says, "any kind of animal?" I tell him, "yes". He says, hopefully, "can I bring Aspen?" I tell him, "No, you can't bring Aspen." Before I can say anything else he says, "Oh, yeah.........., Aspen couldn't fit in my cubby." :-) I thought it was too cute!

Wacky William

This is a spot to record all sorts of stuff about William! He was born July 25, 2001. Just for the record, 'Wacky' was not my first choice of blog name! WonderfulWilliam and WackyWilliam were already taken, although I believe that Wonderful and Wild are both better descriptive words for my little red-headed wonder!