This is Will. Will is 4. Will is a running fountain of questions. Will likes to be answered. If you don’t answer immediately, Will repeats his question. A little louder every time. Until you answer him.
Will is obsessed with letters. Will likes to know how to spell words. Will likes you to draw each letter in the air for him so he can copy you.
Will and I sometimes venture out of our little tiny town in search of civilization. Our drive goes something like this:
Will: Mom, Mom, Mom, what that letter says?
Mom: That sign says “For Sale”
Will: What letter is “For Sale”?
Mom: There are lots of letters on that sign, but it starts with an F.
Will: How you make an F?
Mom: Like this (Makes an F in the air)
Will: Oh, like this? Like this mom? Like this?
Mom: Yes, yes, yes Will. Like that.
Will: What that letter says? (pointing)
Mom: That sign says, “Fresh Nectoren For Sell”
Will: What a nectoren is?
Mom: Well, I think it’s supposed to be nectarine.
Will: How you spell nectoren?
Mom: Well, I don’t think you need to know how to spell nectoren unless someday you find yourself living in a tiny Idaho town on a farm, without spell check and a proper spelling education, selling “fresh” summer fruit from the side of the road in the middle of October. Then maybe I’ll teach you how to spell nectoren.
Will: What you said? What you said Mom? How you spell noctoren?
Mom: Never mind. It starts with an N and you make it like this…
OH MY … I have a child like that (my oldest). To this day she still believes that there is no one else in the world besides her. Whether she asks a question or is telling a story … she doesn’t miss a beat.
It can be exhausting, but I believe it means “highly intelligent child” 😉
That’s so cute! He’s so curious. Ella is still working on spelling her name. Oh well… Good use for the cookie cutters!
Hilarious conversation! I love how you wrote that. I can picture it so clearly. And hilarious sign. It fits right in with your “You Know You’re in Idaho . . .” posts.
Your date stamp is a little whacky. It says I posted at 2:24 pm, but it’s actually just before 5 am. I’ve been up for a few hours with a sad baby.
I know Susan. I can’t figure out how to change the time. One of a few complaints I have with WordPress.
Are those cookie cutter letters? If they are that’s a great idea.
And I think you should get will a speak and spell for christmas.
When we moved to southern Utah, there was a furniture store with a huge sign saying “EMERGANCY SALE!”
I called them. The teacher in me just couldn’t it go.
They said that I was not the first caller, but they were leaving it because it was making a lot of people notice them.
Notice them for WHAT I wonder…
Sheesh.
When your fatigued with Will’s questions we could get Will together with Savanna she currently knows the answer to everything. I loved your pics. I may have to borrow them to introduce my friends to where we live. My older kids still call it “Middle-of no where”