Cold Spaghetti

We show Will one of his Easter toys! 

Paul, Will and I with Will’s FIRST EASTER BASKET from Granna and PapPap. Granna beautifully decorated it and filled it with goodies: a “fuzzy ducky” book and matching chick, plastic eggs (with chocolate eggs inside), wooden easter toys (including a rattle and other percussion-style instruments), bubbles (Will LOVES blowing bubbles) and jelly beans!

Me and Will and his Easter basket!! His basket is the same one that I had growing up AND the same one my Mother had growing up. 

Post-golfing activity: reading “are you ticklish?” Will brings books and asks to be read. He particularly likes books with shiny pages and tactile things to touch. 

Easter Morning golf with PapPap! 

Us on Easter Morning…

In the last few days, Will has turned into an incredibly adorable (heartbreakingly adorable) chatterbox. He babbles and babbles and babbles… pointing, gesturing, making faces, throwing his hands in the air, babbling in sentence intonation back and forth with you… it is absolutely hysterical.

Words….
Much more detail and precision with old standbys: Ah-cha (“Good” in Hindi), Wow!, Uh-ho!, El-mo, Ahh-pull, nah-nuh (for “banana”), Ma-Ma, Da-Da, Pap-Pap, Ga-doh (for “gato”), Bye-bye, Hi!, Weee!, Ah-gua, Moo!, Baa!, Ank-U (for “thank you”)

New Additions: Gan-nah (for “Granna”), Doh! (think of Homer Simpson), Moh (as in “more” to ask for more milk or food when he’s hungry), Ahh-gie (for “doggie”), “Mum” (usually said “ma-mum” for me), Sgettio! (as in “Uh-ho, spaghetti-oh!”), Udding! (for “pudding”), Boo! (as in “your hat is soooo booootiful!”)

Animal sounds: Caa-do-do!! (for “cockle-doddle-do!”), Cuck-cuck (for “cluck cluck”), Mee-owww, Ahff! Ahff! (for “ruff-ruff”)

Granna and Will — playing “Uppie Go” (a phrase that I’m told I coined when I was Will’s age).  

Monday night. I was sitting on the couch in the Coraopolis La Quinta, eyes glazed over at mindless tv, nursing my kid, waiting for him to drop off to sleep. Suddenly I hear a familiar voice — telling me about savings at WalMart. Could it be?! YES — one of my Harrold Street college roomies, a buddy from TA-UT at VT, with whom I shared Riva San Vitale, trips through Italy, and weeks of commedia and cold showers. My favorite “white meat” — the Booduh herself — Allison Latta! Wal-Mart’s new coupon lady!!!

Will and Aunt Francis Kolakowski! Aunt Fran made dinner for us on Sunday (including a special veggie lasagna for me!) Will loved playing with her dishwasher (great buttons), exercise ball, and getting lots of attention from everyone!