Will's Vacation

Will had such a fun time during his vacation week.  Craig took off Tuesday to be with him and he spent Monday and Tuesday nights with Jenny, Craig, and Brittney.  Mom and Kristen took off Wednesday through Friday to keep him. 

Jenny and Brittney took him to the park Tuesday evening and Craig took his motorcycle for a ride then stopped by the park.  As Craig was leaving Will asked Jenny where he was going.  Jenny told him Craig was going home and Will asked where he lived.  Jenny told him Craig lives at her house, of course!  Will thought about if for a second then said "Well, doesn't he have a job he goes to or something?"  : )

Jenny has a fear of running out of toilet paper so she keeps a basket of it sitting beside the toilet.  While Will was using the bathroom he yelled out and asked Jenny "Nenny, do you collect toilet paper?"  : )  Craig and Brittney got a good laugh from that one, especially since they also find her "collection" excessive!

Then Brittney sat down with Will to write his name.  As she was writing, Will told her she was doing it wrong.  Apparently she was writing William rather than Will because he said she was using too many letters!  He said his mommy doesn't use that many letters! 

On Wednesday morning Craig was back to work (yes, he DOES have a job he goes to) and Jenny was getting ready to leave for work too.  Will realized that he was going to be there by himself with Brittney.  Apparently that worried him because he stood up on the chair, put his hand on his hip and asked Jenny "What am I supposed to do with Brittney here all day?  She doesn't even have a car!"  : )

While we were with mom on Saturday we went to the Street Scene car show.  Will saw a little racing car and wanted to buy it.  I explained to him that it was a raffle drawing - you gave them $2 and then if you were lucky you might win the car, or someone else might win it.  Then all the money everyone paid went to sick children in the hospital. (He opted to save his $2).  The next day at the fair Grandad was playing the Fat Albert game.  You place your quarter on the color hole that you think the white rat will run into when he is released.  Grandad was giving Will some quarters to play with, but neither of them were winning.  After each round the game operator collected the quarters that everyone was betting.  Will watched as his and Grandad's quarters were collected and they were getting nothing in return.  He then asked if those quarters were going to sick children in the hospital and I told him no that the game operators kept them.  After that, he asked Grandad if he could just keep his quarter instead!  Smart boy!

Craig and Brittney took Will to McDonald's while he was with them
on Tuesday.

Will enjoying some Pop Rocks.  (I had to laugh because Jenny's text
that accompanied this picture pointed out that Will arrived at her house with the
Pop Rocks and that she did NOT buy them for him!) 

Mom and Kristen took Will to the West Virginia State Fair and found
sand to play in (you never know what you'll find at the fair!!).

Will was so excited at Amazement Square that mom couldn't get a
picture that wasn't a blur!

Kristen and Will building a car on pajama day.

Mom had lots of pictures of the fun things they did all week, but forgot to save them on her camera phone!  Pajama day, camp out, flashlight tag, Amazement Square in Lynchburg, Lake Moomaw beach, digging in the dirt, and playing a board game Kristen invented out of Uno Spin were just some of the things I remember they did.  Pictures would have been fun to have but what really counts are the memories Will will always have!  He can't wait to do it again (hint, hint)!  : )

In reality I think it would be really hard for me to leave him and go again.  I hadn't told him that Jerry and I were taking a trip because I was afraid he might get upset about us leaving him.  As I was reviewing the slide show I created of the trip Will climbed up beside me to watch too (because he heard the music playing).  He saw a picture of Jerry and I and he asked where he was.  I told him he was at Grandma's house when we took that picture.  Through the next several slides he kept asking "Did you and Daddy go there too?"  Then he commented that he liked the foggy beach and asked why he didn't go with us.  Thankfully he was happy with the explanation that he was on his vacation at Grandma's house but it broke my heart that he realized we had gone without him.  I never imagined that at his age he would look at those pictures and piece it together that we had taken a trip without him!  : (