questionnaire I gave the kids I might want to come back to in a year and see if their answers change

WITHOUT ANY prompting, ask your child these questions and write down EXACTLY what they say. It is a great way to find out what they really think. When you re-post put your Child's age.
P.S. Theres a blank copy in the comment section!
1. What is something mom always says to you? Skylar's answer: I love you. Williams answers: kiss
2. What makes mom happy? Skylar's answer: Dove and Coke Williams answers:  hugs
3. What makes mom sad? Skylar's answer: William being a brat and not pooping *face palm* Williams answers: not coming upstairs
4. How does your mom make you laugh? Skylar's answer: random stuff she says Williams answers: telling a joke
5. What was your mom like as a child? Skylar's answer: carefree Williams answers: cute cute baby
6. How old is your mom? Skylar's answer: she knew it! Williams answers: 22 or  40 I think
7. How tall is your mom? Skylar's answer: 5'8 or 5'9 Williams answers: 16 or 5 feet
8. What is her favorite thing to do? Skylar's answer: shop Williams answers: hugs
9. What does your mom do when you're not around? Skylar's answer: browse FB Williams answers: play roblox --Id rather stick my self with a hot poker...
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? Skylar's answer: blogging Williams answers: making webpages, gaming videos and blogging forever.
11. What is your mom really good at? Skylar's answer: finding things she needs like clothes and custom content, quizes Williams answers: custom content
12. What is your mom not very good at? Skylar's answer: sewing a few days ago Williams answers: roblox
13. What does your mom do for a job? Skylar's answer: consignment Williams answers:  on Sims 4 my sim is a doctor
14.What is your mom's favorite food? Skylar's answer: taco burgers (no that's hers) Williams answers: boogers
15.What makes you proud of your mom? Skylar's answer: when I do things for us like make us feel better Williams answers: watching a happy movie together
16. If your mom were a character, who would she be? Skylar's answer: bella swan because I am loving, caring, brave (Wouldn't that be Katniss?) Williams answers: play forever... I bet Rick would say Beverly Goldberg and Loreili from Gilmore Girls melded together.
17. What do you and your mom do together? Skylar's answer: shop Williams answers: watch videos and play games together and internet blog
18. How are you and your mom the same? Skylar's answer: brown hair, brown eyes (she's my clone), girlie yet tom boy, crafty, outdoorsy, internet hog Williams answers: because we love each other.
19. How are you and your mom different? Skylar's answer: different styles of clothes (she wears my clothes LOL) Williams answers: because we don't have the same clothes
20. How do you know your mom loves you? Skylar's answer: when she tells me and is caring for me Williams answers: because I kiss her
21. What does your mom like most about your dad? Skylar's answer: when hes not being a brat Williams answers: hugging him
22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go? Skylar's answer: supper heroes Williams answers: pizza hut
23. How old was your Mom when you were born? Skylar's answer: 24 Williams answers: 4

Tonka Truck

Did you ever have those metal Tonka trucks you would play with? I remember them being outside and playing with them in the sandbox and they would rust but still be very usable. The thing never seemed to break..

Well I call William my Tonka Truck. He's also been nicknamed Bubby, Destroyer of Worlds (and eyeballs), ER baby-- you know how many times do we rush to the ER for this kid? Actually we've only made it to the ER twice. Once when his fever was high but got to the parking lot and the pediatrician told me to go home- after all what can they do for a fever? I never liked that answer but that's what she said. The other time when he was in his space saver high chair and he would put his feet up on the table and tipped himself back while buckled in and some how his head hit the hard wood floor. He nearly had a concussion.. Got him home and then he started showing more symptoms of a concussion so yeah for sure he probably had one.

had his feet kicked back like Obama on the edge of the table.

The school nurse called me today. My phone didn't ring for whatever reason. So I get a notification that I have a voice mail. The voice mail says they have William in the clinic to give her a call back hmm. I am trying to listen to my voice mail and Stephanie my friend beeped in to ask me a question. I guess she heard the disconnect in my voice and I told her Mill Creek called and I was trying to listen to the voice mail. I call Rick and they hadn't called him either. So I called the nurse back and she said William was told twice during in class recess not to run in the building on the 3rd warning he bumped into a little boy holding a stick. I said okay. She said it barely scraped his eye but it was very close. He acted like it didn't really bother him so she packed it with ice and sent him back to class she would call me in half an hour when she went to retrieve the ice pack if anything changed. Well I had to check the kids out an hour after this so when I got there Skylar told me she saw William with an ice pack. I explained what happened and I said I don't want to know why there was a "stick" in the classroom LOL. The lady at the front desk so oh is he yours? I said yes. She said I was wondering about the stick too come to find out its not a stick its a plastic piece like for those builder things. I was like OOOH makes sense now...  Him and Skylar both have scrapes near their eye now. Skylar woke up with her's this morning. I am wondering if she had a run in with Tinker Bell in her sleep? LOL

If William is really not getting over a boo boo I know its serious. He usually cries enough to get a little comfort and then his world is too busy to dwell on it and he acts fine. He is a tough cookie! 

Poor Pitiful William

Read about him here ....http://armyknightslady.blogspot.com/2013/11/day-5-of-my-days-of-thanks.html

Potty training William

William has been doing okay with potty training its took us over a year just to get him to wear underwear... no matter what we say, bribe whatever he wouldn't wear underwear and Rick of course is no help in the matter since he sounds like a little girl when William has dirty underwear... I wonder why I was left with the cloth diapers LOL Anyways from 8 am till 8 pm he's in underwear. He will not go #2 on the potty. just an absolute pain about it but he stays dry at school as long as they remember every hour to take him. We take him every half hour at home and we put a pull up over his undies in the car if its more than a quick trip somewhere. I am not even sure this is appropriate to post on my Facebook timeline... Anyways I picked him up at school and I let him play in the back yard. It was time to go back to the school and get his sister so I was buckling him in and noticed his pants were wet... I said William why are your pants wet? Did you pee your pants? he said no... I said did they get wet from you being outside? He said no. So I put his hand there and said well then why are you wet.. He looked up at me and said... Because I'm happy.... I tried not to laugh or grin or DIE... but that was just too funny. I mean I know he isn't thinking in dirty terms like well at least I am but its just the way it came out... cracked me up.

Potty Training Progress

Since he turned two I have been inconsistently just introducing him to his potty chair(s) and underwear. Just getting him used to the idea. I've spent some time outside when we had warmer weather in his underwear so he knew what "wet felt like". He has a potty chair on both levels of the house as well as the kind that sits on the big toilet. We've been asking him to sit and go potty (with and without getting undressed). We've even played shooting for cheerios. Rick takes him into the men's bathroom and William got curious about standing to pee. So he would lift up his shirt and pat his belly but he wasn't sure what came after that LOL. Over the past 5 months he's only went in the potty twice. I call it "Pre-Training".

Today I was researching and reading articles and I read maybe put big boy underwear of his choice over his pull up so he's been doing that all day and I've been asking through out the day if he has to sit on the potty or does he want to go potty with mommy and he always says "No" so I will do the same thing probably tomorrow until I get a yes or some curiosity out of him.

I might have to stock up on cloth pull ups. I am too afraid of going to straight underwear.

Deddle Deddle

For the first two years of Williams life we have had him sleeping in a crib in our room. Since right before his second birthday I decided to convert the crib and move it into his own room. Before we converted the crib we would put him in the crib and he would settle down and go to sleep. Since the conversion there has been more of a bedtime challenge. For the last month we or just one of us sits in his room or right outside the door. It's usually a lot of getting up to play, going into our room, or Skylar's or playing with his train table.
Tonight I went to the store to return the rented movies while Rick gave William a bath. I came in and William saw me. So I decided to help Rick get William down. Tonight didn't start no differently than another. We sat against the empty twin in Williams room (Alex's bed) for awhile. Then we left the room to "throw away the dirty diaper." While in my own room I caught William sneaking out of his a few times. Doing the Jo Frost method, I tuck him back in bed without a word. Like the fourth time he snuck out he came into our room with his head tucked between his shoulders, looked at us with grin and his big brown eyes. He had his hands close to his face. His expression could be explained like when someone talks about money. Rubbing his fingers against his thumb. Maybe to be explained like Gollum from LOTR when he says "my precious." William only said Deddle Deddle Deddle. I went to continue doing what I had been doing and taking him back to his bed. I reached the corner of my bed where he was just to collapse with the giggles. The next half an hour would be one thing to giggle after another. Rick thinks he was saying little more time.

William is getting smarter and smarter!

William loves anything to do with Disney Pixar Cars. He doesn't have the attention span to watch the movies but he does like them. Why don't they make Disney cartoons like they used to? That might hold his attention. Instead we set this up on Rick's computer screen and at any given time William he will sit cross legged in front of the computer monitor and watch the trailer reel that goes continuously http://disney.go.com/cars/#/videos. Lately we showed him one of Skylar's favorite websites when she was in preschool called Poisson Rouge or Red Fish. http://www.poissonrouge.com/ He's getting quite smart about it. Then there is the Itouch. One year for Christmas we bought James an Itouch because we thought it had the best of all worlds pertaining to James... Apps, Music, Videos, Games, Drawing... etc. Rick and I thought we were being sneaky and also got one for each other without us knowing. Mine died first because it probably had a sippy cup contamination. Then Rick's was replaced twice and died as well so he had James Itouch (James got an Iphone less than a year later.) Now Rick who pretty much can't function without his other brain aka Iphone has given me James hand me down Itouch which I love to use for music and Words for Friends but I rarely use it and find myself keeping William entertained with it. He likes to use the preschool applications for puzzles and shape sorting and has mastered so many of them I have had to pay for the app instead of using the lite version LOL!

PS I get my Iphone so we don't have to worry about loosing the Itouch in a month