Today we are celebrating Will’s second birthday!\u00a0 When he stumbled into the kitchen this morning and I wished him a happy birthday, he said “CAKE!”\u00a0 Here is an update on our little man.<\/p>\n
Will is happy, fast, agile, snuggly, animated and enamored with anything that has wheels.\u00a0 He loves Amelia, or as he calls her, “Mina”.\u00a0 The first thing he asks after we drop her off at preschool is “pick up Mina?”.\u00a0 The other common things Will says are “backhoes dump dirt” and “I do it”.<\/p>\n
On a typical day Will comes into bed and cuddles with us before we all start the day.\u00a0 After a few minutes he’ll sit up and say “Mama up.\u00a0 Oatmeal, pancakes, waffles, yogurt”, or some combination of several breakfast foods.\u00a0 He’s not a hearty eater so we’re happy to feed him at least a couple of his requests first thing in the morning.\u00a0 Will has picked up on Amelia’s practice of calling Dave back at least twice before he leaves for work in the morning for another hug, which is enjoyed by all three of them. After that, Will loves to hit the park as soon as possible, and recently that means putting on his helmet and going by bike where he can practice riding.\u00a0 After a weekend of introduction on the bike at the farm in Iowa, and a couple days at home, he’s pretty good.\u00a0 He will ask “Tomas’ bike? Helmet on.”\u00a0 (We’re borrowing the bike from Amelia’s friend Tomas.)\u00a0 At the park, or anywhere really, Will practices climbing.\u00a0 Recently I found him standing on the top of his dresser.\u00a0 When I asked what he was doing he looked at me and said “climbing”, obviously.\u00a0 Will also likes books, specifically books about trucks, backhoes, tractors, or a couple different Dr. Seuss books about big dog\/little dog or ears.<\/p>\n
We spent last weekend in Iowa so Dave could help his dad with harvest, or more truthfully, so Brian and Will could ride together in the combine.\u00a0 Will spent 4 hours taking everything in on Saturday and a couple more hours on Sunday.\u00a0 Brian was impressed with how Will would follow how the corn was picked into the combine and unloaded into the tractor, and also that he never fell asleep while riding!\u00a0 He did call to have us pick Will up at one point and I was worried he’d gotten fussy, but Brian assured us that he was great and just didn’t want to “burn him out”.\u00a0 Will is a lucky boy since both his Pop-pops like to take him for rides in their trucks, tractors, combines, and other things with wheels.<\/p>\n
Back to the celebration – today Amelia and I will are taking Will to ride his bike at the park, have lunch out, naps and then dinner tonight with the four of us.\u00a0 This weekend the festivities will continue with the arrival of Caroline and Paria, our first visitors from Washington and we can’t wait to see them!!!\u00a0 We’ll have lots of fun adventures and on Sunday night we will have dinner and a tractor cake, if I can pull it off.\u00a0 (By the way, we’re making friends and feeling so much better about our new digs since the weather has cooled off and we’ve had some time to get into a new routine in our new city.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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