You gotta work for dinner around here.

Will is now old enough to pull in the garbage cans on Wednesdays when he gets home from school.  That's a big can and still, a little boy!

In 4000 years...

Tonight at dinner Will says to be "In 4000 years mom, will you let me go shopping all by myself?"  He then confidently says "I'll probably be like 16 by then"  Sure I say and what will you buy?  'Well maybe that's just 1000 years away.  I'd buy legos and toys, and stuff like that."  Cool.  If you promise to keep buying legos when you are 16 years I will be overjoyed that your life is still so simple and wholesome.

Damn you Robin Eggs!

And your evil cousin Cadbury Caramel Eggs.

It's not even Easter and here you are taunting me at the checkout counter.  Your sweet goodness is too much for little ole me.  Tonight I caved and bought one of each (the small bag of robin's eggs).  So DELICIOUS!

Leaving on a jet plane...

Actually...we left and came back!  I hate leaving any details of a potential trip anywhere online for fear that monsters will break into our house and steal our computers.  Really....that's all that worries.   They cant ake the rest just leave us our computer with every last memory stored digitally on it.


Let's rewind to the series of events that led up to us leaving on a jet plane.  It mostly centered on this:

The endless, endless, never ending, every single day of our life in the winter, and early spring RAIN that has flooded Portland.  When will it end?!  NEVER!  That's what I was thinking in late January when I started planning a little trip to someplace sunny.  Rob doesn't want to leave the country with the kids yet (he thinks we may never come back) and so we had to stay stateside and I only wanted to take a short flight.  I decided San Diego and Lego Land would be perfect.  We booked the trip and I was giddy for sunshine.  


Then, the weather forecast in San Diego called for rain and I kid you not, I almost called the trip off.  We didn't tell the kids about the trip until the day before we were leaving.  I don't know why really.  It wasn't like it was a surprise, it's just that the anxiety and stuff leading up to trips is almost too much for little ones to focus on.  So instead we figure let's spring it on them and let them roll with the punches quickly. So since we hadn't said anything about the trip I figured we could call it off and tour PDX instead.  Rob disagreed and away we went.  But not on time!  We were LATE on Friday getting away from the house and traffic was crappy and the result was a mad dash through the airport with me yelling 'hustle, hustle' to Addi you was pushing her skinny, long legs as fast as she could.  We made it on time and with enough time to enjoy a Wendy's frosty before boarding.  Thank Goodness!

Here's Will with a full belly of ice cream and ready to board.  


We made it to San Diego and to the hotel around 12:30am.  Just a bit late for the kids who managed to stay awake and happy through the entire flight.  But then they passed out in the car

 Addi asleep with puppy near by taking a face first rest into the sweet leather seats.

Will looking BIG!

Will at 6 years, 346 days

• Silly and funny and always looking for a good time
• So eager to move his body.  Like big moves...jumping, wrestling, climbing, hanging, kicking, running, sprinting, biking.  Anything that takes large motor skills and he's on it.  I don't know how he sits still at school all day when he clearly just wants to move his body!
• He tells me today that he used to think he was the funniest person around until he met his friend Spencer at school.  Now he thinks they are even.  Spencer once made a girl laugh though and Will had NEVER seen her smile before (poor thing) which means Spencer has the upper hand on funniness right now
• LOVES basketball
• Reading like mad.  I've ran out of books even though the library is full of them.  He loves series and has read his way through most series that are age appropriate for him.  
• Loves Justin Bieber.  Last week his friend and him wrote 'JB' all over the sidewalks with chalk as a tribute to their favorite singer.  I just may take him to see 'Never say Never' for his bday
• Laughs so hard at funny movies that he cries.  
• has a sweet tooth-especially loves Kit Kats
• Gets red cheeks when he runs around a lot
• Is still sweet as can be to me, especially when Rob is out of town.  It's like he knows we all need a little extra love around here without daddy in town. 
• Likes to sleep in and LOVES to snuggle with Daddy in bed
• enjoys bagels and cream cheese and anything for breakfast that does not have eggs in it.  He does not like eggs. 

Today

Will loves Justin Bieber more than ever.  He told me today at bedtime that he has been talking about Never say Never with a friend at school.  They have decided that they want to see the real Never say Never.  Like on stage. 


Firemen are the nicest, most patient people.  Why is that?  We took the Boy Scout group to the fire station last night for a tour and while they freaked Will out, they were so nice.  It's like the pump kindness into them.  Even though they get woken up in the  middle of the night to LOUD alarms.  


We now have a safety plan about how to get out of the house in the event of a fire.  We also have a meeting place and WIll knows how to kick his window out.  These are things you don't want to think about but then the super nice firemen ask questions like 'Will, what's your exit plan for your house?' to which Will stares back with no response. Then he turns around with tears in his eyes because we are all for sure going to burn this evening in a fire because we have no plan.  not cool.


Addison wears an all yellow outfit once a week.  It consists of the brightest yellow pants, a yellow sweater with white polka dots, and a white t-shirt.  This morning she asked me if she looked awesome.  and I thought what a perfect word to describe total YELLOWNESS!!! awesome.


Best news ever.  The NW Children's Theatre is doing Junie B JOnes next year.  I know not everyone loves Junie like we do and I get it.  She's sassy and talks back a little and she has an attitude.  But Junie B. ushered in the world of reading for Will and got him absolutely hooked on chapter books.  He reads at least an hour a day and can't go to sleep without quiet reading.  He gets giddy when we go to the library and get to pick up the next books in a series.  I love it.  So, I welcome Junie B. Jones and can't wait for the play!  


Addison is reading.  Books, signs, letters, notes I write, google.  Whatever.  This girl is reading like a pro.  AMazing how they just catch on one day and away they go.  She works so hard to sound out the words and then stares at rob or i if she can't figure them out waiting for us to tell her.


Rob is the hardest working dad around.  Thank goodness for Rob.