Tale of the Lamborghini

We had a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous long weekend...and apparently Will was excited to tell everyone at school about it today!

(Background:  A few months ago, on our way home from school, Will and I saw a yellow Lamborghini parked at our neighbor's house.  He fell in love with it, so this weekend, we bought him one (haha...think Hot Wheels.)

So at school today, all the students had to tell their friends what they did this past holiday weekend.  When it came to Will, he (apparently very enthusiastically) stated "I got a yellow Lamborghini!".  His teachers were amazed and asked him "Will, did your Daddy get a Lamborghini?" (yeah right, who do they think we are LOL!).  And apparently he responded "No", that he had gotten a Lamborghini.

It was then the teachers realized he was talking about his new toy...

Brusha Brusha Brusha!!!

We took Will to his first dentist appointment this week....I was very nervous but Will wasn't...he had a great time!  He was such a great little patient - I couldn't believe his exam entailed everything that an adult exam does...from the cleaning and polishing to the flossing and x-rays!

I got really tense when they brought out the water rinser and "Mr. Thirsty", the thing that sucks the water out of your mouth.  His job was to hold Mr. Thirsty while they cleaned him up....

My thought:  "Oh my goodness - I'm about to watch my son get water boarded!"
His thought:  "This is fun mommy!"

He was such a sport through the whole thing!  Bottom line - his teeth are perfect :)

Thank Heaven for Little Boys

And their birthday parties!!!!  For someone who's fondest memory of playing with dolls was wickedly cutting off their hair - I have to admit - I much prefer little boy birthday parties!  This weekend we attended the 4yr old birthday party for Jorge - one of Will's favorite teacher's kids.  

And guess who showed up?????

BATMAN!

He showed all the little boys (and girls) some really neat tricks to help keep the city of Houston safe!

And for Will - who absolutely loves Batman - this was the coolest thing ever.  He got the chance to hone his skills throwing batarangs (think boomerang), crawling through tunnels, using the grappling hook and catching bad guys with nets!

Fearless

Check out this video from Will's gymnastics this week - they raised the balance beam to three feet high and he was one of only a few in his class that didn't require hand holding while walking!  My favorite part of this clip is his little jump on the balance beam at the end before he jumps off...

I guess if I were Batman, I'd be fearless too!

Mother's Day at The Houston Museum of Natural Science

Billy and Will told me I could do anything I wanted for Mother's Day....anything....so I did!  

We all went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science --- it was a blast! 

We started the morning out at the Brown Entomology exhibit which Will just loved.

 (translation - lots of bugs, huge bugs, bugs as big as cats in some cases)

We saw scorpions as big as hair brushes, tarantulas as big as Will's head and a millipede that was the size of a banana (I'm not exaggerating on the size any of these!)

Oh yes, and a ginormous Katydid!

Here I am, trying to get Will to pose by the giant Dung Beetle (haha!) but he is way too concerned with the oversized tarantula hanging above!

Next we were off to the Cockrell Butterfuly Exhibit - basically, a three story rainforest in the middle of Texas - it was so amazing!  There were so many different types of butterflies and so many different colors, shapes and sizes!  

Will was a little skeptical at first (as we were basically dodging them left and right to get through)

But he soon warmed up to them....ALL of them!

Finally, the show stopper (drumroll please)....the Paleontology exhibit!

This is exactly how I wanted my Mother's Day to go ... I wanted to see the excitement in my little man's eyes as we entered the hall - and boy was I surprised!  I think people around us were too as he pointed, wildly shouting out the names: T-Rex, Coelophysis, Quetzalecoatlus and Maiasaura.  He didn't do too shabby, he got three out of four correct.  Although he guessed the small dinosaur next to the T-Rex below was a Maiasaura (a member of the 'duck billed' dinosaur family) it was actually an Edmontonia (also a 'duck billed' dinosaur of course haha!).

Lastly, we headed downstairs for some 'hands on' activities - the most exciting of which was playing Weather Man!  I think Will has a face for TV, what do you think?

This was the best Mother's Day EVER - I just love seeing my little man so happy!

Mother's Day Presents

What can you make for a $10 purchase at WalMart?  Fabulous Mother's Day Presents!  Billy and I have realized ever since Will was born that the best presents given to our parents (to include Birthday, Christmas, Mother's and Father's Day) are "Will related".

As such I thought a little piece of artwork created by our little man would be a gift to last a lifetime.  Here he is in action last week (don't worry - both Nana Julie and Nana Rosie have already opened their presents!)

I gave him just a few instructions:  He was to use only 2 colors per canvass, 2 brushes per canvass, and had to tell me when he was "done" (i.e. before too much mixing occurred).  When it was all said and done, he did a fabulous job - so I let him go "buck wild" creating two more - one for his room and one for me using any brushes and colors he wanted.  We had a blast...and both Nana's loved their gifts!

Nana Julie's is on the top left (red and blue)

Nana Rosie's ins on the top right (yellow and green)

Mine is on the bottom left and Will's is on the bottom right...these turned out to be TOO CUTE!  We'll definitely be doing this again soon!

Who Wore it Best?

Ok, so this posting is a little about me this time...

So, for those of you who know me, you know I am not a "girly girl"... I don't like dresses (in fact, I only own 2), makeup, heels, hair products or ............... (gasp) pop culture magazines... i.e. People, US Weekly, and so on...  I find them lewd, frivolous and sometimes insulting to my intelligence.  Call me lame, or snobby, go ahead...but I just don't have time for that nonsense!  Rather, I recently finished a fabulous book:  Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (which if any of you moms (or soon to be moms ANN!) want to read, I'll let you borrow it b/c I HIGHLY recommend it).

Ok, so back to the title of this posting - Billy, Will and I invited Rosie and Stacy over tonight for a little mother's day pizza party...while showing Stacy Will's new room, she mentioned a picture of Miley Cyrus wearing one of Will's dinosaur "masks" was recently published in "US Weekly".  My response was "no way - was it the exact same one?"  After she confirmed it, I wanted to verify the name of the magazine so I could do a quick google search for this posting.  "So that's U.S. Weekly" I asked?  She started giggling, "No, US Weekly".  :sigh:

Well, here it is for you to judge - who wore it best, Will or Miley?  One thing I know for sure, Will is fashion forward, as he wore his on his birthday in March hee hee!

These little legs

Well, our little man sure is hard on his legs....

Whether it is...

 ramming into various apparatuses at the park

scraping his knees on concrete while sprinting through the sprinkler

playing rough with friends at school

gymnastics

or running around the house pretending to be his new favorite super friend - "BatFlash" - a combination of Batman and The Flash (as if it weren't obvious).....

this little guy's activities take a toll on his legs...

It seems like every day he gets a new "boo-boo"....but he handles it all very well...bruises are no big deal, and "we only need band-aids if we are bleeding"....

He's also very considerate of other people's "boo-boos", applying warm compresses and Neosporin if necessary.

I'm learning to handle his "boo-boos" better too....after all, it gives me an excuse to kiss him more (as if I needed an excuse!)

Will's New Room!

Will's room has come a long way from the days of 'baby' and the most recent days of 'toddler'.  

 

We decided a while back it was time to 'man up' his room...so when we finally found and agreed on a (Pottery Barn) bedroom set for him, it was on!  

A few weeks ago, Will, myself and my parents conveniently headed downtown to the Aquarium, leaving Billy at home with a list of instructions as to the remodeling of Will's room...

Well, I think he did a pretty good job :)

Backing up a few months - Will was inspired by a green pillow he found at Bed Bath and Beyond - which is why his room is now....green....

And of course, per his request, it is a 'dinosaur room', complete with a big boy (twin) bed!

We have some new things, like a dinosaur piggy bank which he is using to save money to buy more cars, a Will hand painted T-Rex and a puzzle we put together, glued to some plywood and hung on the wall.  (What else do you do when you get two of the same puzzles for Christmas?)

We did keep some things from his previous room - the lazy boy (this was so useful when he was a baby...now it is used for jumping off of and hiding behind!  Oh, and there is the green furry pillow Will just had to have from Bed Bath and Beyond.

Also kept from the old room is the book case (of course) because our little bookworm wouldn't have it any other way...

And Will's letters on the wall (which have now been re-modge podged three times) and his train letters (on the dresser)

All in all we are thrilled with his new big boy room, and so is he.  He is so glad to be out of his toddler bed --- although, now that we have made this transition, we have had to end our Sunday night tradition of mattress slide (prior to putting clean sheets on of course)...luckily, Will finds hiding under his bed almost as enjoyable :) and I find it less dangerous!

 

Saturday at the Zoo

One of the very best investments Nana Julie and Papa Dave make every year is renewing our zoo membership...THANK YOU!  This weekend was gorgeous, so we decided, before the weather got TOO hot, we would take a trip to the zoo...after all - the new African Forest exhibit makes the trip worth it!  Will absolutely loves the Houston Zoo - they have tons of neat animals, a petting zoo, you can feed giraffes, there is a carousel and a train...what more could a little boy want!  

Here's Billy and Will outside the rhino exhibit - there are three rhinos and they are adorable!

And here is a picture of Will and I - we are mimicking the 'kissing' mommy and daddy' giraffes in the background right above us in the picture...and how cute is the baby to the right of Will?!?!?!

We finished our afternoon off with a picnic by the paddle-boat pond, then headed for home where Will and I proceeded to pass out for a three hour nap :)