Will Canada
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2001
Profile
Born: June 28, 2001 Chronology
June: born June 28 in Laurinburg, NC July: meets Godmother, Jessica Henry August: meets grandparents Updated August
5, 2002 |
The Boss has a soft side, too. When he is full, dry, and content, in fact, he can be quite charming. He is working on a beautiful grin, which he has flashed for both his dad and his grandmother. Pediatricians will tell you that babies don't really smile at this age. These are the people, though, who swear that you can teach a baby to nap. The truth is that Will not only smiles, but does so out of deep and genuine affection for the people who love him.
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We
call him "the Boss." He tends to bark out orders, and we tend
to listen. "More milk? Yes, sir." "New
undergarment? Right away, sir." "Entertainment?
You got it, sir." I guess that's what we get for naming him
Will--a word we chose not because it is short for William, but because it
represents something we cherish: human possibility. In its associations
with choice, force, and even the future tense, "will" seems an
appropriate name for a young man--especially this one. Although he was
due on the Fourth of July, he decided to arrive nearly a week early, on June
28, 2001. His middle name also refers to things we love. An ash,
of course, is a tree that grows in a part of the country we love, the
Appalachian mountains--and, not coincidentially, supplies material for
baseball bats. It also is the name of a letter in the Old English
alphabet. Thus, in those three letters, we captured something of the
earth, age, and the English language, making it--we thought--a nice
complement to our daughter's name, Esprit Nueva, "new spirit" in
French and Spanish.