this morning's conversations...

Recently, William has been really attached to everything.  He does not do well with change at all, even in the slightest.  Here's a funny exchange between he and I about making the change from Aunt Jemima (yes, the syrup) to maple syrup.  (Bill and I just wanted to switch because it has less preservatives and no high fructose corn syrup.)  This conversation made me laugh, but William was quite pained...

W:  So you're never going to get the other syrup [Aunt Jemima] again?

A:  Nope.

W:  Oh... I'm really going to miss the other syrup.  Every time we go to the grocery store, can we stop by and see the other syrup?

And here's a cute interchange between Josiah and I about sharing.  Josiah gave some of his pancakes to William to eat.  He does really well with minding his manners.  

A:  Thank you for sharing your pancakes with Ge-ge.

J:  Thank you for sharing with me.

Our days are filled with these funny little conversations that I'm trying to remember before I forget.  Hence, this post.  They both are at a cute age where they are really able to have their own conversations together now.  It's fun listening in on what they are thinking and talking about.

And here's the flower my Littles picked for me later in the day....

qotd...

Here's a funny exchange with William and Josiah.  This had me cracking up!  William normally doesn't get this excited over lunch...

W:  It's 11:30! (jumping up and down b/c it's lunchtime.)
J:  It's pah-ty time!  It's pah-ty time eb-body!

peanut butter...

So amazingly, Bill's mom found us some peanut-free peanut butter!!  And amazingly, it tastes pretty similar to real PB and actually seems healthier for you.  (I know...  there's definitely something not natural about that.  No real peanuts, but healthier...)  Anyway, Bill and I were eager to have William finally try a PB&J sandwich since his last fateful day of trying the real thing and ending up in the ER.  (That's how we found out he was allergic to peanuts.)  So here he is now trying peanut-free PB&J...

He's thinkin' about it... 

 Thinkin' about it some more...

 Uh-huh...

Yay!!  He likes it!  He likes it!

Yeah, actually, not so much.  After taking several bites, he started to make gagging faces and really could not stand to eat anymore.  I think he tried really hard in the beginning to like it since Bill and I made a big deal about it and he has seen us eating a PB&J sandwich several times, thinking he was missing out on something.  But alas, he did not like it the way we thought he would.  Curiously, what he really didn't like was the jelly.  We'll try him on it again some other time, but for now, he is content with staying away from PB.  I guess he wasn't really missing out on anything.  =P

On another note, I had to make a last minute run to the grocery store.  It was raining outside.  As soon as I got Josiah into his car seat, he said to me, "Momma...  mess up Momma's hair?"  It took me but a second to figure out what he was saying.  "Oh, you mean the rain is going to mess up Momma's hair?"  He said, "Uh-huh."  And I just had to laugh.  My littles knows exactly how vain his momma is.  Note to self... don't complain in front of the boys about your hair.  And God forbid if they should EVER bring home a vain woman!  ;)

Falling out the window....

SO, I am only posting this because it was out of Amy's request... and because it was pretty funny.

I was playing with William tonight before his bedtime and Amy was upstairs getting ready to go out with our dear friend, Kelly.

William stops and looks at me kind of concerned and says, "I want to see Momma again.... Promise Momma not going to leave without seeing me?"

I reply, "Of course, Buddy, Momma is not going to climb out of a window.  She'll come this way to go out." 

He responds, "She not going to climb out the window?  Cause she might fall and,... and... hit her head? .... And get angry???"

Ah my little boy... he knows us so well... :)

william-isms

I overheard William saying this to Bill one day: "Dada, I poo-pooed. You like to change my diaper, Dada?" =) I'm sure Bill had to think for a minute about how to answer that question. ;)

william-isms

I finally was able to grab some paper and pen to write down some funny things that William has been saying... (Well, they're funny to me...)

I was looking for something to eat, but couldn't find anything. So William said, "You eat yater [later], Momma... You eat tomorrow you want."

While playing with my hair, William said, "I love you, Momma... Love your hair." I'm pretty sure that was the first time he had said "I love you" first. So I absolutely treasured hearing him say it all on his own!

I told William the day before that Ah-ma and Uncle Jimmy would come over the next day. While waiting for Ah-ma and Uncle Jimmy to come over the next day, he asked, "It tomorrow, Momma?"

Although things have been getting a bit difficult with William in terms of training (it really feels like we're living with a teenager sometimes), we love seeing him begin to blossom into his own person. He is an absolute gift from the Lord!

attacked by the sticker monster...

I wonder who the sticker monster might be... Actually, it's great seeing William play with stickers now since he used to be deathly afraid of them. They reminded him of band-aids, which reminded him of shots at the doc's. (You can imagine the hysterics we witness when he sees a band-aid.) Needless to say, he still doesn't like band-aids, but at least he seems to have gotten over his fear of stickers. =)

a new revelation...

William said to me one day (not too long ago)... as I was changing a dirty diaper of his, "Wih-num poo-poo... Momma poo-poo... Dada poo-poo... Kangaroo poo-poo... ALLbody poo-poo!"

I wonder how his brain must be processing this world we live in... I guess this was a little peek into it. =)

on the brink...

wih-num's world

So I finally have some amusing things to share about what William has been saying. =) I'm writing these down more for my memory than anything else, but maybe you'll enjoy them, too. Here's a peek into our little boy's world. =)

We are working hard to have William feed himself without our help. So here's how one conversation went during lunch. He was trying to pick up some rice on his fork, but it kept sticking together.

William: Momma, help please.

Me: No, William. You can eat it on your own.

William: Momma, help please! Rice big and strong.

Here's a conversation during dinner. We all had take-out from Wendy's. William was looking at our drinks and said, "Dada have straw. Momma have straw. Wih-num have straw. Allbody have straw!"

And several weeks ago, we were reading the story of David and Goliath in his Bible before naptime. Just like every other boy, he remembers this story better than the others for some reason.

Me: Who's this giant?

William: Go-yai-it! (Goliath!)

Me: Who's this? Who's he fighting?

William: Wih-num!

forgetting how big God is...

Just burning the midnight oil with my baby boy...  Loved this post.

christian swearing

A good friend of our's sent us a link to a guy who writes funny perspectives on Christians.  Don't worry...  It's not Christian bashing.  He's a Christian, too.  Some of the stuff he writes is very poignant.  Anyway, we found a hilarious post about Christians and swearing.  Just thought we'd share it with you...  =)

coloring...

I've been meaning to do this post for a while now, but didn't get a chance to until now.  It's just something I thought was amusing.  We are excited about how William has been able, for quite some time now, to go to his Discovery Land (children's ministry/Sunday school) classroom without crying.  He actually seems to look forward to it because they give out graham crackers during snack time.  That's always the first thing he says when we say we're taking him to his classroom on Sundays.  Anyway, the kids usually color a picture that goes along with the Bible story they've learned that day.  Sometimes it's hard to remember to give the parents the pictures the kids have colored, but several weeks ago, this is the first-ever picture William "colored" that we received from Discovery Land...

If you're thinking what I'm thinking, you're right...  there's nothing colored.  =)  I was so looking forward to taking a look at it, but there was just his name on it.  This made me laugh.  And it made me wonder what he was doing while all the other kids were coloring.  Maybe we need to work more on some coloring with him...  =)  (If you're also thinking what I'm also thinking, I was a tad surprised at this picture portraying the story of Cain and Abel.  I mean, don't get me wrong, it certainly is true to form, but it seems a little on the homicidal side for 2-year-olds, doesn't it?  Don't tell Mr. Cooley I said that though.)  =P  And yes, I am going to keep this picture forever.  Well, maybe I'll keep some other ones, too, since he didn't really color anything.  =)   We received this picture on a subsequent week.  There are 2 scribble marks at the top.  Maybe another kid scribbled on his picture by accident, but we'd like to think William did this all on his own.  He's getting there...  =)  Yea!   We received this one a couple weeks ago...  William seems to be improving, ya?  It probably took him a whole 5 seconds to color.  What is he doing when everyone else is coloring, I wonder?  Well, at least it's more like the other kids' drawings now.  That's our boy!  We are so proud!  =)

fits of laughter

introducing...

our little professor davidson.

our little trekkie

William seems to be treading in his Papa Davidson's and momma's footsteps. We both love Star Trek. Papa Davidson loves the original series, and I especially like The Next Generation and Voyager. (Enterprise was horrible though! I'm glad it got cancelled so quickly.) Anyway, they've been playing these re-runs on tv and William watches them with me. Poor little tyke doesn't really have a choice, but he has really taken to Voyager. Actually it's just the opening credits that he's enthralled with. His play area is right in front of the tv (probably not the wisest place, but it's all we've got). He usually doesn't pay any attention to the tv while he's playing, but whenever the opening credits for Voyager come on, he stops to watch. And as soon as it's done, he goes back to whatever he was doing before. It is the funniest thing to watch!!! Seriously, no matter what he's doing, as soon as he hears the opening song, he just stops to gaze... and then goes back to whatever he was doing as soon as it's over. I love watching him do this because it intrigues me so... (And we wish Papa Davidson could be here to see this.)

It's not the same as actually watching him sit enraptured by Voyager's opening credits, but here are a few snapshots...

Don't worry... he doesn't normally sit this close to the tv. It's just for the camera... =)

just like momma...

Chillin' in our sweatpants... (Anyone who knows me well, knows that I LUV my sweatpants!) At least you can't see my big belly here! (And no, this wasn't staged!)

hola, amigos!

An da le! An da le! Arriba!

(Ok, so his momma had a little too much time on her hands...)

monkey clip

I've seen this clip a long time ago, but never get tired of watching it over and over again. It has grown more dear to me now because of the monkey theme in our family. =)

Click here for the monkey clip... and get ready to laugh!!!