{"id":1324,"date":"2012-10-22T19:57:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T02:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2012-10-23T06:59:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:59:52","slug":"will-is-4-and-oh-so-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/news\/will-is-4-and-oh-so-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Will is 4 and oh, so fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will&#8217;s birthday request was to pick corn, so we celebrated his 4th birthday and the conclusion of harvest in Iowa City in mid-October. Brian even quit a little early the day before we arrived so Dave and Will would have a full day of picking. Will loves riding in the combine and tractor and takes pride in never falling asleep&#8211;even when they go out for a 10 hour day! Amelia also likes taking a turn in the combine, but she informed us it&#8217;s not really that exciting: &#8220;just back and forth, back and forth&#8221;. This season Will asked Brian why he always got to drive the combine. Brian had several reasons, such as seeing how the crops looked and knowing what the yield was. A few hours later, after Will had obviously been thinking more about this, he told Brian that he drove the combine because, &#8220;it is your combine and it&#8217;s special&#8221;. Brian couldn&#8217;t agree more! Coincidently, those are the reasons Will drives his toy combine, too. Needless to say, Will&#8217;s birthday weekend was just what he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Will is such a fun, thoughtful, and sweet little guy. He has informed me he doesn&#8217;t like the name William and I can only call him Will. When I asked why, he said &#8220;Will is spelled w-i-l-l and William and is spelled w-i-l-l and some other letters, including M, and I don&#8217;t like the letter M.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He absolutely loves Maggie and is always, and I mean always, right there whenever she makes a noise or he feels it has been too many minutes since he&#8217;s showered her with kisses. Luckily Maggie is starting to find him pretty entertaining and smiles when he&#8217;s around.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few recent Will and Maggie stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will told me he just wanted to &#8220;fry her up and eat her&#8221; because he loved her so much. He must have been hungry.<\/li>\n<li>It never fails that when I&#8217;m trying to quietly put Maggie down for a nap, Will comes running into her room and starts singing &#8220;Take Me Out to the Ballgame&#8221; in what he considers a whisper and I consider normal volume. In true St. Louis manner he says &#8220;root, root, root for the Cardinals&#8230;&#8221; It is Will&#8217;s form of a lullaby and he refuses to leave the room until he&#8217;s done. If I try to get him out he just sings louder.<\/li>\n<li>Last night he was giving her a kiss before she went to bed and said &#8220;good night my little sweetheart&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy 4th Birthday sweet Will! We love, love, love you.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/photos.dspencer.net\/2012\/Fall-Harvest-And-Wills\/26104453_PnsKdb#!i=2168895529&#038;k=HLd76Wc&#038;lb=1&#038;s=A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will&#8217;s birthday request was to pick corn, so we celebrated his 4th birthday and the conclusion of harvest in Iowa City in mid-October. Brian even quit a little early the day before we arrived so Dave and Will would have a full day of picking. Will loves riding in the combine and tractor and takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dspencer.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}