Hurricane Will

This one is in the running for our holiday card as they are all actually in the frame! Will did not have school today so he did a sleepover last night at Nana and Grandpa's house down in Rhode Island. He loves going down there and it has been hard to get a night in with soccer/weekends/school so I'm glad he went.

In the past it was kind of disconcerting when Will was not around because it made you think of what the house might be like in some horrible future where Will was taken from us. However, last night it was very different as Evelyn was doing her thing and Catherine was sitting up and doing her thing and it left Dina and I with one stunning realization and undeniable truth:

Will is the loudest human being on planet Earth.

His footsteps are like pile drivers pushing iron stakes into concrete. He does not walk around the house as much as he drives his mallet like feet into the ground as if they were pistons. He does not talk..he shouts and screams as if this is his conversational tone. He throws himself around when he is playing like a lineman straining for the goal line with the running back behind him, the clock expiring, and two yards to to between failure and a Superbowl triumph. His presence is not 'felt' when he is in the house it is 'experienced' like a car crash or a fireworks display. He transforms Evelyn into a 3 foot tall female version of himself as she is swept up in the hurricane that is Will's life force and bounds about the home smashing, and stomping and snarling as well - she is a completely different person when she is playing and he is not around.

And I love every single eardrum pounding second of it!

I'm glad he had fun but I am happy that he is home today where his very special and magical form of disruption is back in our home and right where it belongs.