William's Road

William has loved airplanes ever since I can remember. He loved them before he could crawl and he can always see them from MILES away. Dan and I will be searching the skies after William joyfully yells, "there's an airplane!" Sure enough, the airplane is a speck in the sky. How he can see them when they are up so high is beyond us. We are amazed. It's like he's a walking control tower.


He has also always loved "wheels" of any kind. Most recently, race cars. He'll lay on the floor and drive them around the carpet so he can see the wheels spin and he'll make the "vroom!" noise and the "whooosh!" noise for his airplanes.



Today he wanted to build a runway for the planes and a garage for the cars. So, I got out the masking tape and together we created William's road. He asked specifically for 6 parking places in the garage and 5 parking places in the airplane hanger. He's logged hours playing in his room with all his cars and airplanes on the runways and road. Today we added a launch pad for the space shuttle per his request (see the X with the O around it). When it's time for a space shuttle to take off, William will hold it upright on the launch pad and shout, "4-3-2-1 BLAST OFF! woooooosh!" It's been a joy to watch his imagination take off.


I am sure we'll be constructing many more streets and runways. I better make sure I have enough tape!