Will's World

Will has decided he no longer needs a nap (except when mommy is sneaky enough to get him in the car at the right time of the afternoon). We're still working on the quiet time thing. Today, I've let him stay in his room with the door open. In the past, I've closed the door so he doesn't come out. The problem is, he spends all of "quiet time" yelling for me and body slamming the door. So, maybe we've made a breakthrough with the whole door being open!

Just kidding. He just came in the office to "surprise" me! Back to his room . . .

He went to summer preschool in July and he had a new teacher. The first day I took him, he said, "I don't want to go to Tonya's class. I want to go to Linda's class. Tonya messes with my things and I don't like that." Of course, he'd never even met Tonya. By the end of the day, he was saying, "I like Tonya. Her doesn't mess with my things unless her's mad." I'm thinking I need to start putting more of his funny quotables online now . . .

He's working on potty training, almost all on his own. He hasn't had a dirty diaper in a couple months and now he's starting to tell us when he needs to tinkle too. Hooray! Most of you probably know that we're expecting a new baby in January, so this really is perfect timing. My goal was never to have 2 in diapers at the same time.

Speaking of the baby, Will has taken to telling everyone he meets about having a new baby. But he seems concerned about how it will fit in (me too-how perceptive!). He's asked me if the baby will sleep in his room or eat in his chair. I've assured him that it won't, but he's not so sure. When he tells people about it, he keeps changing the sex and the name. One day, he was having a sister named Emma, then another one named Abby, then a brother named Fruitots. 

Oh yes, fruitots. That's his word for everything:

Examples:

"Do you like your food?" "Yes, it tastes like fruitots."

"That's soft. It feels like fruitots."

"What do you think we should name the baby?" "Fruitots."

You get the idea.