The big news from this month is that Will finally lost his first tooth. He has been talking about it for months and his tooth has been wiggly for a few weeks now. Then one day he was eating a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and it just popped out! Teeth gross me out to high heaven, so I made Michael be the tooth fairy. I had Will put his tooth on his bedside table in an old ring box, and then Michael delivered the box with a dollar in it that night. Will was SO excited to see that dollar when he woke up the next morning! I don't really want to save the tooth because of the gross factor, but I also feel bad throwing it away. So I guess I will hang onto it in the mean time. Michael suggested doing a craft project with all of the kids teeth one day, but that made me throw up in my mouth a little, so for the mean time it will sit in the drawer, out of sight and out of mind!
We talk about death a LOT. He talks about when he will die, when he will dies relative to Michael and I and his siblings, how he will die, how long he thinks he will live, what will happen to his body after he dies, and of course heaven and God. I've told them about both burial and cremation, and oddly, both kids have individually insisted on being cremated. To be clear, I never bring up these conversations, the kids do. They are curious I guess and I just do my best to answer their questions as honestly as I can in as kid-friendly a manner as I can.Every single time we have these talks, I think it is the weirdest thing ever, but I guess kids want to know about this stuff as well. I figure if I get into the habit of having honest conversations about anything at this age, maybe that will translate to good communication in the teen years!
Lately every time we go to Safeway, and go into the bakery section to get bread, we pass the pre-made cakes. In particular Will always spots the carrot cakes and asks to get one. Ever since I had one for my birthday, he has been enamored with carrot cakes. He always begs me to buy one and I always decline. The other night however, I happened to see single slices for sale, and I relented. When we got home and Will finally got to take a bite, he was in pure ecstasy. He closed his eyes and said, "Mmmm, that is marvelous!" I had to laugh!
Will has been taking daily naps since he was born. Since about the age of 18 months, when he went down to two naps, hes been sleeping from the hours of 1pm-3pm. He is such an active guy, he really needs this rest time. Of course there are days when the kids don't nap, but not napping nearly always makes Will moody, super emotional and whiny. Hes just a happier kid when he naps. However next year at all-day kindergarten, there will be no napping. I've heard from many friends that kids take a while to adjust to this and are hot messes for the first few months after school starts. Combine the stresses of starting a new school that is 6.5 hours, 5 days a week (instead of 4 hours, one day a week now), with no napping, and Will might struggle mightily. To hopefully ease this transition, a friend suggested that we cut naps in the summer so that he could get used to that aspect of it, in advance. So far its hit or miss. I can still definitely tell the days when he hasn't napped, but also the more days in a row that he doesn't nap, the less the impacts seem to be. So I think I just need to stick with it, even though nap time is such a nice break for me. Even when I kick him outside during nap time so he can play instead of nap, I still get constant requests to come back inside, eat snacks, eat popsicles, change clothes, and play video games. So having him up can be doubly annoying!
He can be so sweet sometimes. He knew that Mother's Day was coming up, so totally unprompted , he wrote me this lovely Mother's Day card and presented it to me with a hug and a kiss. And then at school, with the help of his teachers, hand made a vase and picked beautiful flowers to go in it. I was the only mom at the school to get a vase, and it was definitely all his own idea. Such a sweet boy!
Will is definitely growing up these days. Hes becoming more responsible and kind every day. He is learning to look out for and help to teach his sister things, he is learning to clean after himself without being told, he keeps his room clean without nagging, he goes to the bathroom and dresses himself all with zero intervention from me (which I love). He is still extremely physical and loves to run, jump and climb and do amazing acrobatic moves casually as though they were the easiest thing in the world. Poor Nora struggles to keep up. He is working on his kindness towards friends and his siblings daily, and I see improvements all the time. He is doing SO well at reading and writing still and often reads me entire books before bed, and is now learning how to read with inflections and pauses appropriately at periods and commas. He still is not great at writing lower case letters but does great at upper case ones. He will undoubtedly be ready for kindergarten in the fall and he is so excited to finally start (even as I have my reservations about our public school system). Hes going to do great, I know it!
The big news from this month is that Will finally lost his first tooth. He has been talking about it for months and his tooth has been wiggly for a few weeks now. Then one day he was eating a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and it just popped out! Teeth gross me out to high heaven, so I made Michael be the tooth fairy. I had Will put his tooth on his bedside table in an old ring box, and then Michael delivered the box with a dollar in it that night. Will was SO excited to see that dollar when he woke up the next morning! I don't really want to save the tooth because of the gross factor, but I also feel bad throwing it away. So I guess I will hang onto it in the mean time. Michael suggested doing a craft project with all of the kids teeth one day, but that made me throw up in my mouth a little, so for the mean time it will sit in the drawer, out of sight and out of mind! 
Lately every time we go to Safeway, and go into the bakery section to get bread, we pass the pre-made cakes. In particular Will always spots the carrot cakes and asks to get one. Ever since I had one for my birthday, he has been enamored with carrot cakes. He always begs me to buy one and I always decline. The other night however, I happened to see single slices for sale, and I relented. When we got home and Will finally got to take a bite, he was in pure ecstasy. He closed his eyes and said, "Mmmm, that is marvelous!" I had to laugh!
Will has been taking daily naps since he was born. Since about the age of 18 months, when he went down to two naps, hes been sleeping from the hours of 1pm-3pm. He is such an active guy, he really needs this rest time. Of course there are days when the kids don't nap, but not napping nearly always makes Will moody, super emotional and whiny. Hes just a happier kid when he naps. However next year at all-day kindergarten, there will be no napping. I've heard from many friends that kids take a while to adjust to this and are hot messes for the first few months after school starts. Combine the stresses of starting a new school that is 6.5 hours, 5 days a week (instead of 4 hours, one day a week now), with no napping, and Will might struggle mightily. To hopefully ease this transition, a friend suggested that we cut naps in the summer so that he could get used to that aspect of it, in advance. So far its hit or miss. I can still definitely tell the days when he hasn't napped, but also the more days in a row that he doesn't nap, the less the impacts seem to be. So I think I just need to stick with it, even though nap time is such a nice break for me. Even when I kick him outside during nap time so he can play instead of nap, I still get constant requests to come back inside, eat snacks, eat popsicles, change clothes, and play video games. So having him up can be doubly annoying!
He can be so sweet sometimes. He knew that Mother's Day was coming up, so totally unprompted , he wrote me this lovely Mother's Day card and presented it to me with a hug and a kiss. And then at school, with the help of his teachers, hand made a vase and picked beautiful flowers to go in it. I was the only mom at the school to get a vase, and it was definitely all his own idea. Such a sweet boy! 
Will is definitely growing up these days. Hes becoming more responsible and kind every day. He is learning to look out for and help to teach his sister things, he is learning to clean after himself without being told, he keeps his room clean without nagging, he goes to the bathroom and dresses himself all with zero intervention from me (which I love). He is still extremely physical and loves to run, jump and climb and do amazing acrobatic moves casually as though they were the easiest thing in the world. Poor Nora struggles to keep up. He is working on his kindness towards friends and his siblings daily, and I see improvements all the time. He is doing SO well at reading and writing still and often reads me entire books before bed, and is now learning how to read with inflections and pauses appropriately at periods and commas. He still is not great at writing lower case letters but does great at upper case ones. He will undoubtedly be ready for kindergarten in the fall and he is so excited to finally start (even as I have my reservations about our public school system). Hes going to do great, I know it!
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