Christmas Recap

What a glorious week it was!  Mom and Dad came Christmas Eve and left this morning.  Will was loving all the extra attention...and making me look like a liar, when I tell them about his toddler episodes of banging his head on the floor and loosing his cool at dinner time.  He was on his best behavior!  But now the house is quiet again, and he's stuck with only me.  We went over to a friend's house today and we have a few other things to do this week, so hopefully he won't be too disappointed that he's back to reality!

 Christmas morning was a good time!  I would have to start opening the gifts for Will, but he would finish them and then not realize he had 25 more to open.  He wanted to play with, or read what he had just opened.  So we would hide that gift, and move on to the next one.   The kid was WORN OUT.  He took a three hour nap, which has never happened, in the history of Will.  I was tempted to re-wrap everything and do it all again the next day!

Some of the toys that he has really taken a liking to are the Little People Airplane, cars/trucks, foam blocks, Duplo blocks and drums that light up.  My grandfather built Will a giant toy chest, so we have a place to store all these fun new toys!

Will got his first haircut, and while the end result is so handsome, the process was awful!  He must have sensed it as soon as we walked in, because he started to cling to my leg before we tried to bring him to the chair.  It took two adults to hold him still, while the nice lady speed trimmed his mullet off!  It was quite a show for anyone watching!  I know that I will not be able to take him next time alone! But check out the before and after:

The week was a little bit of a blur, because I can't even tell you what we did to keep busy.  A few shopping outings with Mom, Billy built a new fence with Dad, a couple walks with the stroller, and a lot of good food!  I haven't stepped near that scale since last week!

Some funny things Will started doing:
-Becoming obsessed with turning on/off lights.  There are a couple he can reach, and one is on the stairs.  :/
-Christmas cards.  He points at them, and wants us to take them all out, so he can look at them.  And then he hands them all back to put away.
-Putting his clothes in and out of the hamper.  He can't yet grasp that they stay in there.
-For a while, every animal sound was "baaaa".  Now it is just the sheep and the dog and cat sounds are just barely recognizable, but mostly only to me.
-He tried to hand my dad blocks/toys while he was snoozing in the chair.  Sleeping on the job, Grampy!