Imaginary Friend

William turned 3 last week and has an imaginary friend. His name is Dab. (I just found out about him this morning.) Dab likes hair ties, playing with trucks... he likes rocks, fences, grass, leaves and all kinds of stuff (William is looking out the window as he tells me what Dab likes). Dab lives at the camper store. Sometimes I hear William in his room talking to his imaginary friend.

Q&A

Me: What is your favorite color? Wm: yellow blue
Me: What is your favorite toy? Wm: something. you say what's my favorite toy. (later: talking cars and incredibles)
Me: What is your favorite thing to eat? Wm: blueberries and grapes. I need more of them.
(he then refused to answer any more questions and went off to eat grape tomatoes.)

and YOU want to be my policeman doctor monkey?

William had fun with his chocolate pudding on Friday night while we weren't looking!

Goodbye 2008

What can I say about 2008? William went from "almost 2" to "almost 3".... Lillian was born... and overall it was a great year. William is in to Handy Manny (both the toys and the tv show) and loves to eat ramen noodles. He hardly wants to eat anything else but noodles and fruit. Lillian is so sweet- she wakes up smiling and goes to bed smiling- she's too young to give us much trouble. She started sleeping through the night nearly every night in early November- when she was about 3 months old. We all get pretty good sleep. The kids really love each other (I hope that never changes). We welcome 2009 and especially spring weather, camping trips, playing outside, working in the garden, bluegrass festivals, drive-in movies, and going to the park!

The Dreaded Christmas Pictures

Just like me when I was a kid, my kid hates having his Christmas picture taken. I have been trying to get a decent one for weeks, and it goes something like this "NOOOOOO! waahh.. no way!" He was laying on the floor crying and screeming "cheeeese". As a result, we didn't get a good picture this year. I'm working on putting some older pictures together for a photo card.. the best I can do. Here's a picture from today. If you look closely, you can see the tears.
Before I forget- here's what William says he wants to be when he grows up:
"A doctor, a cop, and a monkey!"

Lillian-Almost 4 Months

Our little girl is almost 4 months old. She is sooooo sweet and we are enjoying every minute with her! William is a lot of fun too. He is 2 and 3 quarters... and he says the funniest things- like this conversation we had the other day:
Wm: Let's get Lillian and go for a walk in the stroller.
Me: It's too cold out!
Wm: But I'll wear my jacket and Lillian can wear her pumpkin! (that was her halloween costume)

And when he was eating noodles: "I'm Wiyyam.... I'm Wiyyam... I'm Wiyyam Bob Noodle Belly!"

OBAMAAAA!

We were there............ and as the newspapers just reported, so were 74,996 other people (give or take). Barack Obama visited Kansas City today for a rally at Liberty Memorial. It was a beautiful day and the crowd was anxious and excited. Josh & I and the kids had a late lunch at Kabuki then walked over, and we couldn't believe the line- extending from the south memorial entrance all the way down the hill to union station. People eager to get a glimpse of the next president (or so we hope) although relatively few were close enough to see him. William (2 1/2) had quite a good time and had been excited about this for days. He yelled BARACK OBAMAAAA as loud as he could and got many laughs. When he saw people taking pictures he assumed they were taking his picture, so he would shout "cheeeese!". What a cutie. Lillian seemed less interested in seeing Obama. She was quiet, just looking around taking it all in. I wondered if anyone so young had ever seen so many people.

It was inspiring, exciting, fun. I am so glad were were there.

We were standing near the back of our area, but this picture of the crowd is just a tiny portion of the overflow area that was behind us. Josh said "Obama was like a rock star... people were fainting and passing out.... of course those were the diabetics".

William and Lillian at the rally:

Ok.... this last picture isn't from today's rally, but I couldn't resist adding a picture of "our first black President"...