Project 365: Will's First Year

moving

2010-09-02T01:44:00.000-07:00

So now that it's no longer Will's first year and we have another baby about whom we will blog, we moved. Update your bookmarks/feed readers/tattoos to this URL: http://willandevie.blogspot.com/. The archives of this blog are over there too. We'll also attempt to update it at least once a week.

http://willandevie.blogspot.com/

Year 1, Weeks 51 - 52

2010-06-23T23:42:00.000-07:00

Week 51: May 29 - June 4

We took Will up to the Wild Animal Park this week. He was a fan.

Watching the gorillas.

Will loved watching the lorakeets. A lot. We stayed there for quite awhile.

Peering in to get a closer look.

Will also really enjoyed riding the carousel. He went on it twice and was disappointed when we told him he couldn't keep riding till he went on every single animal.

Also...just...look at this picture. There are no words.

Week 52: June 5 - 11

We went to Sea World and Will enjoyed riding the rides at the Sesame Street Bay of Play...despite what this picture may indicate.

Year 1, Weeks 47 - 50

2010-06-23T23:38:00.000-07:00

Week 47: May 1 - 7

Our friend Ian took these with his fancy camera.

Week 48: May 8 - 14

So, May was a bad month for pictures.

Week 49: May 15 - 21

A really bad month.

Week 50: May 22 - 28

Seriously.

Year 1, Weeks 43 - 46

2010-06-23T23:10:00.000-07:00

Week 43: April 3 - 9

Easter egg hunt! (It was a busy week, apparently.)

This is Will's buddy Charlie. We don't see her very often, but he talks about her all the time.

Also this week - opening week of baseball! We drove up to Anaheim to see the Twins play the Angels.

Twice.

Week 44: April 9 - 16

Will loves his crayon apron, courtesy of Aunt Miranda.

Will also got a haircut this week and practiced his Blue Steel look.

Week 45: April 17 - 23

Will dances for joy over new furniture.

Week 46: April 24 - 30

No pictures of Will this week. But here, look at this picture of a squirrel.

Year 1, Weeks 38 - 42

2010-06-23T22:47:00.000-07:00

Week 38: February 27 - March 5

You may be saying, "This is not a picture of Will." And you are correct. However, the little yellow thing sitting on George is Mr. Lion. Mr. Lion is necessary for Will to sleep. Will saw George taking a nap and decided that George was in need of Mr. Lion.

Week 39: March 6 - 12

Gardening with Dad

Waiting for pizza.

Week 40: March 13 - 19

Watering the strawberries.

Spring training! Watching the Dodgers at Camelback Ranch.

The Twins train in Florida, but no one told Will.

Spring training = RUNNING IN THE GRASS OMG YAY!!!

Week 41: March 20 - 26

No seriously. It really is.

Week 42: March 27 - April 3

Will and I made cookies! This was Will's favorite part.

JUMPING!!!

Sort of.

Year 1, Weeks 34 - 37

2010-06-23T22:31:00.000-07:00

Week 34: January 30 - February 5

Will takes his first trip to the zoo!

Week 35: February 6 - 12

Dear Blog Readers, I'm so sorry my parents are so bad at updating my blog. Love, Will.

Will found some pacifiers behind his bed. This is why he's only allowed to have them at bedtime.

Week 36: February 13 - 19

Apples + Wheel Show = Happiness

These are the best pajamas ever.

Week 37: February 20 - 26

Hooray! A visit from Grandma Gail and Grandpa Bill!

Will celebrates his 1/4 Canadian heritage.

Pizza night!

Year 1, Weeks 30 - 33

2010-06-23T22:22:00.001-07:00

So we've neglected this blog for like...six months. I'm going to attempt to catch it up in a few posts.

Week 30: January 2 - 8, 2010

Will cannot believe how long it took us to update the blog.

Climbing on furniture.

First trip to Sea World! What is up with those penguins?

Week 31: January 9 - 15

Week 32: January 16 - 22

We went to Denver to visit family. Will got all up in Zayley's grill.

Week 33: January 23 - 29

...I believe this is when our camera lens was broken.

Year 1, Week 29

2010-02-18T16:30:00.000-08:00

(December 26, 2009 - January 1, 2010)

We didn't take any pictures this week. Some of this is because we were on vacation and lazy, but a lot of it is because we broke our camera lens and just relied on other people to document stuff. So here is a picture I stole from Bill.

Year 1, Week 28

2010-02-18T16:25:00.001-08:00

(December 19-25, 2009)

We drove up to Seattle and took the long route through the Sierras so Will could play in the snow. Will was not impressed.

He much preferred eating a sandwich while driving the car.

Also, you know. Christmas.

Year 1, Week 27

2010-02-18T16:19:00.000-08:00

(December 12-18, 2009)

The second craft fair was on the 11th and 12th, and it was up in San Francisco. Will got to spend some time with Grandma Gail and Great Grandma Jo while we headed up north.

Later in the week, Will climbed on Lorne's lap while he napped.

Then he got haircut #2.

Year 1, Week 26

2010-02-18T16:13:00.000-08:00

(December 5 - 11, 2009)

Remember those two holiday fairs? We were kind of busy with the first one this week. Subsequently, this is the only photo taken this week.

Year 1, Week 25

2010-02-18T16:07:00.000-08:00

(November 28 - December 4, 2009)

First off - I was messing with my Flickr account a little while ago. Unbeknownst to me, messing with privacy options completely changes picture URLs, and changing the privacy options back to what they were doesn't change the URL back to the ones we put in here. So...I totally ruined the entire blog. But Lorne thinks he can write some sort of program to fix it, so...hopefully he can. Or I'm going to be kicking myself for a long time.

Anyway, on to some very belated pictures. I had two holiday craft fairs in December and Will got tired of watching me sew, so he decided to help.

He also danced awkwardly.

And was adorable.

Year 1, Week 24

2010-01-07T23:21:00.000-08:00

(November 21-27, 2009)

Will is only allowed to play with Kleenex and toilet paper if he then blows his nose. This results in some fake nose blowing sometimes.

Will is allowed to rock out at any time, however.

No bed dad! Rock!

ROCK!

Year 1, Week 23

2010-01-07T23:18:00.000-08:00

(November 14-20, 2009)

My mom is ridiculous.

Seriously. Sometimes I don't know what to do with her.

Sometimes you just have to laugh at her though.

Year 1, Week 22

2010-01-07T23:12:00.000-08:00

(November 7-13, 2009)

Will practiced his fake smile.

Then he practiced his frisbee face.

Then he practiced his rulerface.

Year 1, Week 21

2010-01-07T22:57:00.000-08:00

(October 31-November 6, 2009)

Halloween! We didn't get around to carving our pumpkins until the 31st.

We cut the top off Will's pumpkin.

Will looked inside.

And was horrified.

We made some cookies earlier in the day to take to the potluck we were going to in the evening.

And decided to give one to Will to cheer him up, since we murdered his beloved pumpkin. We gave him a black cat cookie because we are stupid.

Really, really stupid.

So then he had a bath, then we got him dressed up. Will was Joe Mauer, Lorney's favorite baseball player. We got him some fake sideburns but they fell apart when we tried to cut them smaller to fit his face. So we painted them on.

The face paint lasted about five seconds, so we washed it all off.

We went to the potluck, where Will was skeptical about all the other children.

Then we went home.

Year 1, Week 20

2010-01-07T22:38:00.001-08:00

(October 24-30, 2009)

This week we a couple of fun outings.

Outing the first: The pumpkin patch*!

*Patch = parking lot covered in hay, upon which sit lots of pumpkins that have been brought in by trucks

Will liked to pat the pumpkins.

Will chose his pumpkin by interpretive dance.

It totally worked.

They also had a petting zoo. Will didn't really want to touch any of the animals and frankly, I was kind of glad.

They also had some rides, which went over much better than the petting zoo.

Lorne told Will about how he once caught a pumpkin THIS BIG.

Will also liked the merry-go-round.

Though he really wanted me to stop holding on to him. In this picture he's trying to push my hands away.

The pumpkin really was the best thing though.

Man, someone get that kid a haircut. Which leads us to...

Outing the second: The First Haircut

Before: Surfer shag

During: They let him ride in a Blue Angels jet and watch TV. Two things Mom and Dad almost never let him do (at least at this point in October - now we let him ride in jets all the freakin' time).

What are you DOING lady?

After: Little Lord Fauntleroy

WE LOVE HAIRCUTS!!!

oh hello blog

2010-01-07T22:31:00.001-08:00

Someone's parents fell asleep on the job for oh...two months.

Lorne had some meetings, Laurel had some craft shows, we went to Seattle, Laurel got pregnant. You know, the usual stuff. We'll try to update the weeks of the last months in the next couple nights while we watch Doctor Who and Friday Night Lights on the teevee machine.

Year 1, Week 19

2009-10-27T20:27:00.000-07:00

We walked to the playground this week. Dad helped me down the stairs.

When we got to the playground I found a straw and a stick to play with. Dirty used straws are so awesome. I can't figure out why Mom took it away from me.

To make me feel better about the straw we went on the slide. Someone was super rude and left some wood chips on the platform. Look at them!

Then I went down the slide!

I also went on the swing. That was pretty awesome.

Then it was back to the slide. Except this time I wanted to go on the BIG slide.

Whoa. The big slide is really high up.

The big slide goes faster than the little one.

Whoa there big slide.

Okay, the big slide is pretty fun.

I also shook the chains when Dad stood on them.

I also played with the wood chips. They were pretty awesome.

The park is totally awesome.

Also this week, I sat on the couch. It was hilarious.

Next week we'll have some pictures of our visit to the pumpkin patch! Here is a preview. I love my pumpkin.

Year 1, Week 18

2009-10-17T15:21:00.001-07:00

This week Mom and Dad took me out to Julian to pick some apples. We stopped to get bagels for breakfast, and the bagel place was out of regular milk so I got to have chocolate milk for the first time.

I drank that whole bottle. Mom and Dad have been holding out on me.

The place we went to was called Calico Ranch Orchard. Mom found it on the internet, and was surprised when she realized that it was the same place Dad took her when she first moved out to San Diego four years ago.

Oh hey, look, there's a lot of apples on the ground there.

LOOK! An apple RIGHT THERE.

We're supposed to be apple picking up, right?

Oh, apple PICKING. Not apple picking up. I see.

These two? These are mine. You probably don't want them anyway, I licked them.

APPLES!

Here's me and Mom with all our loot. I don't know why we're sitting on bales of hay, it's not like they need hay to feed the apples.

After apple picking we went to something called Oktoberfest in Julian. I don't know what that means, and Dad thinks maybe they don't know what it meant either, since they didn't have any German beer.

They had some good polka music though, so I danced and made some new friends.

I also raised the roof.

When we were walking back to the car Mom saw some sign about keeping control of your dogs because of the chickens. Then we had to go find the chickens!

I totally found that chicken. See, it's right there.

Here's a better look at the chickens. They were kind of funky.

Also in week 18:

-The Dodgers split the first two games with the Phillies

-I took this awesome picture of Dad doing the dishes

Year 1, Week 17

2009-10-12T11:55:00.000-07:00

This week we:

-Went up to Great Grandma Jo's house, where Will ate a bagel and pretended to be a shepherd

-Watched the Huskies lose to Notre Dame despite 8 chances to move the ball one yard into the endzone

-Played with Dad and bubbles

-Went to Eden's birthday party and did lots of fun things, like go down the slide

-and go up the slide

-and pet the bunny statues

-and played with bubbles again

-and did a dance

-WE WERE SO EXCITED WHEN THE TWINS BEAT THE TIGERS ON TUESDAY OMG

-Ran around in a towel after bathtime

-SMILED SO MUCH BECAUSE WE WERE STILL SO EXCITED THAT THE TWINS BEAT THE TIGERS OMG!!!

Year 1, Week 16

2009-10-12T11:38:00.000-07:00

This week we:

-Played with Gracie and the stuffed Husky

-Climbed on a box, and then danced on it

-Went swimming in the whale pool, which Will kind of hated.

-Read a book with Lisa

-Climbed on and jumped off of lots of things

Year 1, Week 15

2009-10-12T11:27:00.000-07:00

Things we did in Week 15:

-Ate guacamole!

-Watched the Huskies beat USC, which was SHOCKING

-Stole our friend Ian's sunglasses

-Vacuumed with Mom

-Really really really hoped that the Twins would keep winning

-Smiled!

Year 1, Week 14

2009-09-27T13:30:00.000-07:00

Will had his 15 month check up this week. The appointment ran long and Will got shots. Not a good combination. To help Will feel a little better about things, Lorne got him an ice cream cone. Since it's been about 5 years since we updated the blog, you may have forgotten that Will really likes ice cream.

Once he gets it in his mouth he has to hold his hand up to it to make sure none of the deliciousness comes out.

Ice cream. It's the best. We have no interest in this useless "cone" contraption.

VACUUM!!!!!

Also this week:

-laying on Dad

-brushing George's teeth

-brushing Mommy's teeth

-reading with Dad

Year 1, Week 13

2009-09-27T13:20:00.000-07:00

Since we stopped trying to take a picture every day, our monthly totals of pictures taken are going down from 500-600 to 100-300. And that means that some weeks we don't take many pictures. In week 13 we only took...nine. And they're of Will doing three things.

Thing 1: Will eating goldfish out of his snackie cup

Thing 2: Will stuffing cars down the elevator shaft of his parking garage

Why are you looking at me like that? They want to go down the elevator shaft.

Thing 3: Will hugging it out with George

Will really likes to hug George. The feeling is most likely not mutual.

Year 1, Week 12

2009-09-27T13:00:00.000-07:00

I tried to hide under the Rock Band drums to eat my graham cracker in peace, but Mom still found me with the camera.

I also like to use the drum sticks from Rock Band to beat on the floor.

My legs are also now long enough to ride my fire truck. In this picture I'm playing with my fire truck while riding my fire truck. That's meta.

My fire truck RULES.

Year 1, Week 11

2009-09-27T12:52:00.000-07:00

Sometimes Mom and I have dance parties. Usually we listen to her iPod, but when it runs out of batteries we listen to the music stations on the TV. As you can see, I am rocking out to some Jane's Addiction here.

Grandma Diane brought this truck thing down for me awhile ago. My legs are finally long enough for me to sit on it and sort of move myself around.

Grandma Diane's awesome friend Marianne gave me this stuffed puppy. Sometimes he barks, and it's pretty cool. I like to hug him.

I also like to hug Dad. I'm not sure where his head went in this picture though.

Oh look, Dad grew a beard!

Year 1, Week 10

2009-09-27T12:40:00.000-07:00

Hey guys. I have excellent taste in shoes.

And in polo shirts.

One day this week I was having kind of a rough evening, so Mom let me eat dinner in my favorite place, this cardboard box.

It seems that I really like cardboard boxes.

Here are a couple pictures of me being adorable in an attempt to get Mom to let me in the kitchen.

This was what we did on Mom and Dad's anniversary. Calzones and books at the pizza place near our house.

I annoyed George by chasing him, but it's okay, we hugged it out.

Year 1, Week 9

2009-09-27T11:58:00.001-07:00

End of vacation week. Boooo. Here's what we did on Saturday:

All the kids read Newsweek while we packed up the house.

Then Uncle Kev gave them a ride.

It was pretty awesome.

After we packed everything up and dropped the key off at the vacation rental place, we headed out to a park for a picnic before everyone went their separate ways.

That night we drove to San Luis Obispo. The next morning we started the rest of the way home to San Diego. We tried to have a nice little breakfast, and Lorne tried to help Will use crayons for the first time.

Then there was a meltdown, which we did not document for posterity. Once back home, Will caught up on his reading.

He also caught up on his playing with a dump truck while sitting in a cardboard box time.

Year 1, Week 8 - Vacation Week! Friday

2009-09-27T11:48:00.000-07:00

Will and Zayley ate breakfast at the big table. Zayley used the phone books, but Will was okay with that.

Then all the kids went in the whale pool.

Will was a little wary of this "outdoor bathtub with a diaper on" thing. He kept trying to climb out.

He only stayed in if one of us held on to him the entire time.

Later, Lorne and Emma played Rock Band. Emma also played drums at one point, but I don't think we got a picture of that.

Year 1, Week 8 - Vacation Week! Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

2009-09-27T11:21:00.000-07:00

So remember when we said, "We'll update this once a week! We'll be on top of it better!" That was a lie. Anyway, back to vacation week, which was...oh...almost two months ago.

On Tuesday we hung around the house and read books.

On Wednesday, Uncle Kevan played the guitar and sang songs for the kids to dance to.

Then we went to the Lagunitas Brewery.

Emma and Will weren't allowed to go on the tour, since they aren't of age, but we all hung around at the tap room (which was literally just a little room, with a lot of outdoor courtyard seating outside) after the end of the tour.

That's orange soda.

Will and Grandpa Bill had a good time.

On Thursday, Will & Zayley ate at the big table, because they are big kids.

Then they rode around in a diaper box, because they're not that big.

Year 1, Week 8 - Vacation Week! Monday

2009-08-21T08:57:00.000-07:00

On Monday we went to the beach.

Hey guys, there's a lot of water over there. Should I be concerned?

Will had pretty much the same reaction to the ocean that he did the first time he got his feet wet.

Then Will played in the sand for the first time.

This was followed by Will eating sand for the first time.

Zayley went longer without eating sand.

Emma didn't eat any sand. It appears that the amount of sand you eat correlates directly with your age.

Everyone buried their feet though.

Nate dug a hole.

Will got a piggyback ride.

Hooray, beach day!

Year 1, Week 8 - Saturday & Sunday of Vacation Week!

2009-08-21T08:08:00.000-07:00

This week we went on vacation. On vacation you take approximately 473.515% more pictures than you do in regular life, so we'll break this week up into several posts.

We left San Diego on Friday night (so technically week 7, but there are no pictures of that, so whatever) and drove to King City, about 80 miles north of San Luis Obispo on Highway 101. On Saturday we drove to a park just south of SFO, where we were going to meet Lorne's parents and pick up Lorne's brother Kevan for some people and car shuffling. It's all very complicated.

Anyway, we had a little picnic.

Will got to play in the dirt for the first time. He found it to be delicious.

At some point that night everyone ended up at the house we rented in Jenner, CA, north of San Francisco, where the Russian River meets the Pacific Ocean. Who is everyone? Lorne, Laurel, Will, Bill (Lorne's dad), Gail (Lorne's mom), Kevan (Lorne's brother), Nate (Lorne's brother), Miranda (Nate's wife), Zayley (Nate & Miranda's daughter), Diane (Laurel's mom), Jonathan (Laurel's brother), and Emma (Jonathan's daughter). It was a full house.

On Sunday we drove down to San Francisco to catch a Giants game at AT&T Park. It's pretty much the most beautiful baseball stadium ever.

Jon, Emma, Lorne, Will, Laurel

Zayley, Miranda, Nate, Lorne, Will, Laurel

That night we had Chinese food in China Town, where both Will and Zayley informed us that they'd had just about enough time being held and in high chairs, thank you very much. We placated them with frozen yogurt later.

Year 1, Week 7

2009-08-09T22:23:00.000-07:00

I found this cardboard box in the corner of the living room and decided that it was pretty much the most awesome toy I'd ever seen. Why would anyone put it in the corner of room? I think my parents sometimes don't really understand what fun is. I'd highly suggest that you find yourself a cardboard box like this one. It's the best. Here are some of the things you can do in it:

1. Dance!

2. Practice your athletic position!

3. Read a book!

4. Sit and kick!

5. Look adorable!

If that doesn't convince you to get an awesome cardboard box, I don't know what will. I heard you can order them online.

Year 1, Week 6

2009-08-09T22:07:00.000-07:00

My dad is going to be a doctor, so one day at dinner I decided to be like Dad. I put on my scrubs and performed surgery on some food.

First, I went over my last minute surgery instructions.

Here I am making the first incision.

Surgeons won't ever tell you this, but sometimes they sample their work. I always make sure to wipe any evidence off my chin before my patients wake from anesthesia.

Sometimes when you need more dinner for your surgery you have to sign for more before Nurse Daddy will give it to you.

Surgery is delicious!

Always wash down your surgery with a tall glass of water.

Also this week, I learned a new game. It's called TACKLE THE KITTIES OMG IT IS SO MUCH FUN!!!!!

COME BACK KITTY I WANT TO TACKLE YOU!!!

Success!

I love my kitties.

Man, this was a busy week. I also learned ANOTHER new game, called Smush Your Face Against This Thing.

I am so awesome at this game.

To round out the week, we went to Anaheim to watch the Twins lose to the stupid Angels. But they had free fireworks after the game, so we sat in the parking lot and watched them, and that was neat.

Year 1, Week 5

2009-08-09T21:57:00.000-07:00

At some point during week 5 Lorne and Laurel went to another craft fair and Grandma Gail came down and took Will up to Great Grandma Jo's for the weekend. We don't have pictures of that. But here are some other things that happened in week 5:

-we put these rings on our arms

-we found Grandma Gail's daily planner and then hid it in a box of Mom's fabric

-we attacked the camera

-we danced in our messy apartment

Year 1, Week 4

2009-07-16T10:00:00.000-07:00

We failed to take many pictures of the 4th of July, which was this week, but here are a couple:

Will and Eric play with some wood toys at Great Grandma's

We somehow didn't get a good picture from the other angle, where you can actually see Eric's adorable face. We continue to reign as the world's worst photographers.

Every year at the 4th of July (well, every year I've been up at the ranch to celebrate, and perhaps longer than that) they make unbelievably delicious homemade ice cream. As you have seen, Will enjoys ice cream.

Leaning forward to get the ice cream in his mouth faster.

Mmmmmmmmmm.

"I need to make sure none of this comes out of my mouth, so I'll just hold my hand up to keep it in there."

Will "holds" food in with his hand if it's something he really, really likes. Any sort of sweet food gets the hand up in front of his mouth, including his yogurt every morning. It's pretty funny.

No pictures of fireworks, or Will's reaction to them, but he was pretty okay. At first I think he was nervous, but we kept pointing to them and saying they were pretty, and eventually he pointed at them too. No crying. Then when they finished, he kept pointing at the sky. "Did you guys see that? No, seriously, it was up there, did you see it?!"

This week we also:

-ate some bagels

When did he stop being a baby and start being a little boy? Holy crap.

-got sleepy on the red chair

-banged on the workbench Grandma Diane brought with her when she visited for the 4th of July

-took some backlit pictures

-read some books

What? Do you have some sort of PROBLEM with BOOKS?

Year 1, Week 3

2009-07-15T21:18:00.000-07:00

This week Uncle Jon was in LA to visit some of his friends, so we drove up on Sunday to visit him for the day and go see the Dodgers play the Mariners. This is the only picture we took at the game.

If we'd been prepared, we would have taken a picture of Dodger's outfielder Matt Kemp yelling at Jonathan. It was amazing. Then he totally hit a home run just so spite Jonathan.

After the game we drove out to Manhattan Beach to walk around and have dinner. Here we are on the pier.

Later that week, Grandma Diane came to visit and brought lots of books for Will. He was very excited, as he quite likes books.

Year 1, Week 2

2009-07-15T20:38:00.000-07:00

The first day of Week 2 was Father's Day. To celebrate how awesome Lorne is, we went up to Stone Brewery for the Hoppy Father's Day celebration, where they gave Lorne lots of double IPAs to try.

Stone has really beautiful grounds. We walked around for a little while while we waited for our table.

Will and Lorne played with peek-a-boo panda for awhile before lunch.

Will's favorite part of lunch was the ice cream.

We love Stone. If you come visit us, we'll take you there, and you too can enjoy their delicious food and beer. Don't you want a bruschetta BLT with locally grown and raised ingredients? Don't you want amazing beer? You do.

Later in the week, we let Will partake in the totally safe activity of climbing on boxes while holding pointy drum sticks!

Also, Will likes graham crackers.

While you may be tempted to infer from this picture that no, he doesn't like graham crackers, and in fact they make him incredibly angry and that eating one more graham cracker will make cause him to lose it completely, you're wrong. That's actually a happy face.

In other food news, black beans are pretty good.

One of our birthday presents for Will was a set of stuffed cats that resemble George and Gracie. Will enjoys them, and also takes them to bed every night.

This concludes Week 2.

Year 1 Week 1

2009-07-15T19:57:00.000-07:00

This week Will:

-played with all his new toys with Emma.

-ate this adorable and amazingly delicious cooking from Vicki at Center Stage Sweets

First he licked it.

Then he ate some bites.

Then he had a sugar high.

Will says, "THIS COOKIE TOTALLY ROCKS!"

Popeye gains his strength from spinach. Will gains his from cookies.

Then he shared some with Mom, who is not too proud to accept slightly drooly bites of cookie. If you'd ever tasted Vicki's cookies you'd probably accept slightly drooly ones too. They're that good.

Drooly cookies make everyone happy!

-we all went to a Padres/Mariners game!

Dad + Baseball = AWESOME!

Mom got this cupcake.

Will may have had a few bites.

Then we said, "Fe-lix! Fe-lix!" a lot, which was very amusing.

Baseball is fun.

Grandma Gail, Lorne, Will, and Laurel (whose nose is casting a shadow that makes her appear somewhat toothless).

-Will figured out what button to push on the camera to make it take pictures.

Will's first self-portrait.

-and ate his second special cookie from Vicki, a 1 with polka dots

And with that, we shall conclude the first week after Will's first birthday.

oops.

2009-07-13T22:55:00.001-07:00

Hahaha, remember how we said we'd update the blog weekly? Well here it is, exactly one month after Will's first birthday, and we've done no updating whatsoever. In our defense it's been a busy month...but then, aren't they all? We'll try to have some evidence of Will up soon, there have been adventures with baseball games and cats and graham crackers. All very exciting. =)

So....what now?

2009-06-26T21:44:00.000-07:00

Lorne and I were pretty terrible about writing things on Will's baby calendar thing that Lorne's mom was nice enough to give us (sorry Gail!), but in addition to being a good way to keep our friends and family up-to-date on Will's happenings, this blog served as a great way for us to look back on Will month by month.

June 13, 2008 - shortly after birth.

We missed some days here and there, but overall we have a good mosaic of his first year.

July 13, 2008 - one month old, covered in baby acne.

However, if you can read, you have probably noticed the title of this blog is "Will's First Year." It is no longer Will's first year.

August 13, 2008 - two months old.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH THIS BLOG?

September 13, 2008 - three months old, eating his ugly doll.

We think we'll probably do weekly updates now, as we still like writing it, and presumably you still like reading it, since you're reading it now.

October 13, 2008 - four months old, going bald, snuggling Gracie.

However, sometimes I feel guilty about stupid things like forgetting to take a picture one day.

TURNING FIVE MONTHS OLD ON NOVEMBER 13, 2008 WAS SHOCKING.

My little business is picking up and I've started doing big craft fairs, so along with my day job, Lorne's school, and Will, we're not left with a whole lot of time.

December 13, 2008 - BEING SIX MONTHS OLD IS DELICIOUS.

You surely noticed that towards the end of Will's first year the blog was neglected for weeks at a time.

January 13, 2009 - seven months old with awesome hair.

However, we just got a new flash for the camera and Will is still pretty cute.

February 13, 2009 - eight months old.

This means we'll still take pictures. (Duh.) I doubt we'll go an entire week without taking a picture of him, so weekly blog posts seem feasible and less anxiety-inducing.

March 13, 2009 - nine months old and pantsless.

We really hope you've enjoyed watching Will grow with us over the last year, and we hope you'll continue to enjoy the blog.

April 13, 2009 - ten months old and totally awesome.

Even if we post less than we used to.

May 13, 2009 - eleven months old, eating some snackies.

We never bothered setting up Google Analytics or anything for this site, so we have no idea how many people are still reading (or looking, if you ignore the words because you are illiterate). I'm a little curious, so if you feel like it, drop a comment in this post. Wish Will Happy Birthday or something.

June 13, 2009 - one year old, and we couldn't be happier.

Day 365!

2009-06-26T21:16:00.000-07:00

Actually this is day 1 of year 2 or something, but whatever. I TURNED 1 TODAY! This birthday stuff is pretty freaking exciting. Grandma Gail and Grandpa Bill came down from Seattle, as you may remember from Day 364, and then today Grandma Diane, Uncle Jon, and Emma came down from Seattle too! We all went to Great Grandma Jo's house for a party. A PARTY FOR ME.

Emma and Uncle Jon read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to me. This book is so cool.

It's so awesome that Mom made the caterpillar with my birthday cake. I think my cousin was pretty excited about eating it.

I also played with my cousin Eric (or maybe he's my second cousin, I don't know how all that works), who is six months younger than me. He kind of wanted to eat me.

The theme to my party was The Hungry Caterpillar, but it could have also been "Mexico" or "Italy."

I opened some presents. My relatives and friends were very generous and got me some super fantastic gifts. My mom and dad have been bad about writing thank you cards, and they apologize.

All that present opening made me hungry. BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE HUNGRY CATERPILLAR.

Cake, where have you been all my life?

FASTER GRANDPA! I AM FULL OF SUGAR AND I WANT TO RUN!!!

I watched Cousin Emma blow bubbles with Grandpa and then Uncle Jon got me with the hand snake.

Emma did a dance for me, which was pretty awesome.

She also sang me a song called "Today it is your birthday William," which was pretty awesome as well.

I got neat presents and played with my cousins and took out a caterpillar. Birthdays RULE.

Day 364

2009-06-26T20:38:00.000-07:00

Today I played with Grandma Gail and Grandpa Bill. I put some stuff in my snacky container.

I also ate my first pizza! YAY PIZZA!

Pizza is an excellent facial cleanser.

Grandpa read me a story. Usually Mom and Dad read me stories, so I was surprised when I looked back and saw Grandpa's mustache.

Then Grandma and Dad gave me a bath, and OH MY GOSH. Dad came at me with a pair of SCISSORS. WHAT THE HECK DAD.

He cut the hair over my ears and it was pretty much the worst thing anyone has ever done to me. I guess Mom and Dad thought I should look "nice" for my "birthday" the next day.

Day 363

2009-06-11T23:52:00.001-07:00

What's up guys? I turn 1 on Saturday. I think that means my parents messed up the numbering somewhere, because shouldn't Friday be Day 365 and Saturday be a brand new Day 1? And these people are supposed to teach me math.

Day 362

2009-06-11T18:12:00.000-07:00

head on collision

Day 361

2009-06-11T18:05:00.000-07:00

Hmm, what's that over there? Why, I think it's the gun show.

Look at these guns.

I'm so darn funny.

Day 360

2009-06-09T00:50:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the barrage of blog posts. But we're all caught up now! Hooray. This morning Will was very sleepy.

Day 359

2009-06-09T00:42:00.000-07:00

We forgot to take a picture again. I think failing to update the blog for a long stretch also made us not remember that in order to properly update the blog eventually, we would need material.

It's too bad too, because we had a really nice day on Day 359. We went to North Park to check out a local craft show (probably not worth Laurel's time, sadly) and then had a delicious lunch at this awesome restaurant, The Linkery. Will ate fresh corn on the cob (well, off the cob, but fresh) and sat in the booth without a booster or high chair and made lots of nice friends. Then we got a yummy dessert from a bakery up the street, Heaven Sent Deserts, when went shopping for birthday party supplies. We failed to bring our camera with. Sigh. It was a really nice day though.

Day 358

2009-06-09T00:40:00.000-07:00

Baby Idol

Singing is delicious.

Day 357

2009-06-09T00:38:00.000-07:00

Sometimes after I go to bed I'm pretty sure my parents do lots of things like eat candy and ice cream and play games and play with all my toys. This morning I found evidence. Mom left her ice cream bowl out from last night and I licked the spoon. And it was good.

Day 356

2009-06-09T00:36:00.000-07:00

Day 355

2009-06-09T00:33:00.000-07:00

Action Shot!

Eating the cell phone shot!

Day 354

2009-06-09T00:31:00.000-07:00

Day 353

2009-06-09T00:21:00.000-07:00

I can clap now guys! Look!

I can also go "wa wa wa wa wa" with my hand!

Also, I can be adorable.

Days 350, 351, and 352

2009-06-09T00:17:00.000-07:00

Will spent the majority of days 350 and 351 with his Grandma Gail while Lorne and Laurel manned the PenguinBot booth at Bazaar Bizarre. (If you'd like to read about it you can do so here and here.)

Day 352 we were just recovering and lazy though. Sorry.

Day 349

2009-06-09T00:15:00.000-07:00

We drove up to San Mateo for Bazaar Bizarre on Day 348 and didn't arrive until early in the morning today. We took this when we arrived at our hotel at 4:30 AM. I don't know what's going on here, but it appears to be the only picture we took of Will while we were away.

Days 347 and 348

2009-06-09T00:11:00.000-07:00

Nothing to see here either. Laurel was busy sewing a bunch of stuff for her first craft fair and Lorne and Gail were busy doing everything else.

Day 346

2009-06-09T00:07:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, how's it going? I'm so cute and innocent, look!

Wow, look at this thing.

Is anyone watching?

PUSH THE BUTTON! PUSH THE BUTTON WHILE NO ONE IS LOOKING! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Day 345

2009-06-09T00:01:00.000-07:00

Dad made me a cheeseburger on his barbecue today.

Yay cheeseburger!!!

(I only ate it after Mom hid the meat and cheese inside little bites of hamburger bun.)

Also, have you seen my new face? It's super funny.

I crack myself up.

Don't worry, my face didn't stick that way.

Day 344

2009-06-08T23:57:00.000-07:00

What's up guys. I'm just sitting here in my Hawaiian shirt, looking adorable. I'm certainly not thinking about trying to rip apart the book jacket I'm hiding in my hands. Ohhhhh no. Not me.

Day 343

2009-06-08T23:56:00.000-07:00

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Day 342

2009-06-08T23:54:00.000-07:00

Will got tickled while he was getting his jammies on tonight.

Then he got a piggyback ride.

Day 341

2009-06-08T23:53:00.000-07:00

Will attempts to pull the stroller down on himself while Gracie watches. Or perhaps, Gracie is nudging the wheel with her head. You make the call.

Day 340

2009-06-08T23:50:00.000-07:00

None of my books are on the floor! Let me remedy this situation.

Will teaches himself how to knit.

Day 339

2009-06-08T23:48:00.000-07:00

Today Will ate some asparagus . He found it to be finger lickin' good, unlike the first time he had asparagus.

Day 338

2009-06-08T23:47:00.000-07:00

Hey books, I bet you missed being thrown on the floor while I was in Denver.

Day 337

2009-06-08T23:38:00.000-07:00

Will discovered Cheerios in Denver. He loved them, though he does not love them here in San Diego. Perhaps they taste better at higher altitudes.

He was also pleased that he got to sit in a big boy seat.

Laurel sits with babies that do not want to sit with her, probably because she has a sort of creepy look on her face:

Then we went to the Coors brewery. Will payed close attention.

They're very generous with the free beer at the end.

Will shared some of his snackies with Zayley.

Will also had his first ice cream in Denver.

"Hey Dad, I'm not done with that."

Ice cream coma.

Will probably thinks Denver is the best place ever, where you get to steal all your toys from unsuspecting cousins, eat cupcakes and ice cream, and Cheerios taste better.

Day 336

2009-06-08T23:13:00.000-07:00

We're sorry for the long delay in updating. There's been a lot to do in the past couple weeks and unfortunately we had several days where we forgot to take pictures. (However, there are enough pictures from Denver to totally make up for the lack of pictures.)

Anyway, here are some pictures from our first full day in Denver. Will got to see his older cousin Zayley for the first time in 7 months.

Unfortunately, Will doesn't quite understand "sharing" yet. At various points over the weekend he took things from Zayley and once knocked her down to get a toy. We're raising a monster. Zayley was very nice though and often offered toys to Will.

Uncle Nate read the Paddington book Will gave Zayley (he also gave her a little Paddington Bear from London) to both kids.

Then Will crawled through Zayley's tunnel (though only after we stuck some remote controls in there; he didn't really understand why he couldn't just crawl around it otherwise).

Ugh. UGH. COUSINS are SO annoying.

Will is totally going to do that "I'm not touching you" thing to his future siblings.

Then Lorne and Will went on a hike with Nate and Nate's friend Ben. Will wasn't properly equipped for cool mountain weather, so he stole a fleece jacket with hearts on it from Zayley. Then we stole this picture from Ben. We learned from watching Will, all right?

While they were hiking, Miranda, her friend Rachel, Zayley, and Laurel went to a crapload of cupcake shops. They brought their trappings back to the house and everyone ate some. Will got his first taste of cake. This picture does not capture his love for it.

We stole that picture from Miranda. We're dirty bad stealers.

we haven't given up

2009-06-04T22:29:00.001-07:00

We're so close to Will's birthday (one week!), and we didn't give up. It's just been an insanely hectic last few weeks. We'll try to update soon.

Day 335

2009-05-19T01:07:00.000-07:00

Today we flew to Denver and didn't take any pictures. This has something to do with our taxi never arriving and having to drive and park at the airport at the last minute, and being all stressed out and thinking we were going to miss our flight, and then sitting on the airplane and being so totally exhausted that we all fell asleep after Will had some dinner. Sooooooooooooooo no pictures.

But there will be all sorts of awesome pictures of Will and his adorable cousin Azalea soon. Here is a teaser, from a series of photos entitled "GET AWAY FROM ME"

Day 334

2009-05-19T01:04:00.000-07:00

Stop for me! It's the CLAW!

Hey, this thing is pretty delicious. I like the rubber antenna.

WAIT. You use this thing to SPY ON ME?!

I AM DISGUSTED!!!!!

Day 333

2009-05-19T01:03:00.000-07:00

OMG! I am 11 months old today. I celebrated with snackies.

Day 332

2009-05-19T01:01:00.000-07:00

I lost my shirt again.

This sort of thing just isn't SHOCKING anymore.

Day 331

2009-05-19T00:56:00.000-07:00

Will prepares to knock the Monkey King from his throne of blocks.

Will is the new Monkey King. All Hail Will!

Day 330

2009-05-11T20:27:00.000-07:00

Today was Mother's Day. First, Will ate his new favorite lunch, avocado and cream cheese spread on some bread.

Then he was SO VERY EXCITED ABOUT MOTHER'S DAY.

Then we played Peek-A-Boo.

Then Will took a bath and gave himself a very special Flock of Seagulls hairdo.

Will in 30 years:

Day 329

2009-05-11T00:41:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, what's up? Remember how I hated asparagus? Mom and Dad made me try it again for dinner tonight.

Hmmm.

This requires further data collection for proper scientific analysis. Let me try some more.

HMMMMMMMMM.

I'm just going to keep eating it. The lab results will be in later.

Day 328

2009-05-11T00:35:00.000-07:00

Today Dad pretended to gnaw on me. He's so embarassing.

Oh Dad.

Day 327

2009-05-09T14:32:00.000-07:00

Today Will ate some noodles.

What are you lookin' at? Do you have some sort of a problem with noodles?

Day 326

2009-05-09T14:29:00.000-07:00

Will is fascinated by this pen cap.

So he put it on his finger.

And wiggled it around.

Then he ate it.

Then he played with some other stuff.

Day 325

2009-05-09T14:25:00.001-07:00

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Today Lorne had a morning meeting so Laurel stayed home in the morning and hung out with Will. Will was pleased.

Then he destroyed our shoe rack.

Also, his hair is getting curly in the back. We're not sure if it's going to be Laurel-curly or Lorne-curly yet.

Day 324

2009-05-09T14:23:00.000-07:00

Today Will was blurry.

Day 323

2009-05-04T01:17:00.000-07:00

What's up guys? Mom and Dad made me go to some craft show today. Then we came back home. Did you know that I hate L.A.? I screamed in the hotel room the entire time we were there.

L.A. dehydrated me. When we got back home I had to rehydrate.

Mom bought something at the craft show and it came in this paper bag. Then she drew a monster on it.

Then I ate it.

Day 322

2009-05-04T01:16:00.000-07:00

WHY DID YOU THINK IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO DRIVE TO L.A. AND MAKE ME SLEEP IN SOME ROOM THAT IS NOT MY BEDROOM IN SOME THING THAT IS NOT MY BED?! IT WAS THE WORST IDEA EVER. THANKS MOM AND DAD.

Day 321

2009-05-04T01:11:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, I can feed myself! I'm super good at it.

Day 320

2009-05-04T01:07:00.000-07:00

Day 319

2009-04-29T21:16:00.000-07:00

Yep. Still sick. Will finds that being sick is more tolerable after eating his first pancake.

Day 318

2009-04-29T21:10:00.000-07:00

Will is still sick. Laurel is still sick. We are never getting better. The only thing that makes us happy is snackies.

Sometimes Will cannot be bothered to use his hands to pick up his snackies. He just takes his face straight to the source.

Will also enjoyed a little jumping.

And yes, he is wearing the same shirt he wore yesterday. WE ARE SICK PEOPLE. WE DON'T HAVE THE ENERGY TO PUT ON CLEAN CLOTHING.

Day 317

2009-04-27T22:42:00.000-07:00

Today Lorne is feeling better, Laurel is feeling worse, and Will is still feeling terrible.

Infant Motrin is helping Will not be overwhelmed by the pain of his cough so he can play for a little while, but he's still pretty exhausted. Last night he slept for 15 hours.

That didn't stop him from taking naps today though. He took a nap on the couch with Laurel for a little bit this afternoon.

Day 316

2009-04-27T22:37:00.000-07:00

One of Laurel's favorite movies growing up was The Sound of Music. She sings Will songs from it often. She had a copy of it on VHS but hadn't bothered getting a copy on DVD, so Will gave it to her for her birthday. We all watched it together today.

Will was most interested in the puppet scene and when they sang Edelweiss (what Laurel sings to him before he goes to sleep every night).

Day 315

2009-04-27T22:33:00.000-07:00

Will is still sick. He has a low fever and a horrible hacking cough. Poor guy. =(

He spent a lot of today looking like this:

Will was able to muster enough energy to bother George for awhile though.

(Laurel and Lorne are sick as well; you can see Lorne taking a nap in the background here.)

Day 314

2009-04-24T23:38:00.000-07:00

Will is sick. Give him all your pities. He couldn't muster the strength to get his piece of cereal all the way in his mouth.

Day 313

2009-04-24T23:35:00.000-07:00

It would be totally awesome if I pulled all of Mom's books on to the floor too.

Polar Bear Polar Bear is totally a craft book.

I look all grown up and stuff.

Mmmmmm pizza crust.

Day 312

2009-04-24T23:34:00.001-07:00

Throwing all my books on the floor is okay since I'm reading them, right?

Day 311

2009-04-24T23:31:00.000-07:00

Today was Laurel's birthday. Will enjoyed playing with the balloons they gave her at work. The cats also enjoyed this.

Day 310

2009-04-24T23:28:00.001-07:00

I CAN FLY I CAN FLY I CAN FLY I CAN FLY I CAN FLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

We took Will to Safeco Field for the first time today. He had fun playing with his grandparents and uncles and Emma.

Will was not pleased with Carlos Silva's performance.

Day 309

2009-04-24T23:25:00.000-07:00

Today we played with Emma, Uncle Kevan, Aunt Margie, Uncle Jon, Grandma Diane and Grandma Gail, and Emma's dog tried to lick Will's face a lot. We went to Dave & Katie's baby shower and Will met the band friends and some of their awesome babies. We only took a picture of Will sitting on Grandpa Bill's lap though.

Day 308

2009-04-24T23:21:00.000-07:00

Today we went back to the airport. This time we were only flying to Seattle though, a much shorter trip. In theory.

Will picked some lettuce from our sandwich while we waited for the flight to board.

Then we stopped in Oakland. Our 30 minute layover turned in to a 3.5 hour layover. LORNE IS SO EXCITED TO BE AT THE OAKLAND AIRPORT.

We got in to Seattle at 2. About 4 hours before that, Lorne and Laurel decided to only fly to Seattle direct from now on.

Day 307

2009-04-24T23:20:00.000-07:00

I used to hate bath time but it's pretty okay now.

The bath tub is fun to stand up in. I don't know why Mom and Dad freak out every time I try.

Day 306

2009-04-24T23:18:00.000-07:00

I'm not about to pull all the DVDs off the shelf. I swear.

Also, I didn't throw all those books on the floor.