Ambrose and Will help us work outside

We have spent much of the past couple weekends working on spring landscaping and trying to restore our crappy, crappy looking lawn (with a good deal of success so far!). Because when we're outside it basically takes all of the attention of one parent to contain/entertain Will, most of this work was done while he was napping, but he definitely enjoyed "helping" while he was awake.

Here he's clapping and high-fiving with mom's work gloves.




Our next-door neighbors were working outside a lot of the times we were as well. They have two children: Hannah, who is probably about 4 or 5, and Ambrose, who is just 1 week older than Will. Ambrose goes to the same daycare as Will so they play with each other every week, but otherwise until the past few weeks we didn't really get them together very often.

It worked out pretty well for both families to keep working while the two children played with each other, because then only one of the four parents had to make sure they stayed away from the street and didn't wander too far away. They mostly just ran back and forth across our two lawns, chasing each other and making happy noises.

Below Will and Ambrose went for a little ride together on their respective vehicles.



Ambrose is a very good sharer - he happily let Will ride his car-thing.

Will is not yet a very good sharer. Below he is getting upset because when he was on Ambrose's car, Ambrose was trying out Will's tractor. He did not like that.



It was pretty much the same with all of Will's toys. He wanted Ambrose around to play with him, but he didn't want him to touch any of his stuff. It was kind of funny when Will was kicking his soccer ball - he would kick it towards Ambrose and then beam and make sure everyone saw his awesome kick, but then as soon as Ambrose tried to pick up the ball he got mad.




Here's Will's new superfun outside toy - a slide we found on craigslist. He really likes it, and he can climb in and slide down all by himself (but always makes sure someone sees him do it - "mom, watch me!"). As you can see below, he had a particularly hard time sharing his slide with Ambrose.



We're working on him though - he hasn't really had many other chances, if any, to practice sharing his stuff. Jenny the daycare woman says he is a pretty good sharer at daycare, so I guess he was either having a bad day or he's just very particular about his own stuff.