Simon the Big Kid
Simon remains an interesting case study in the behavior differences between two and (almost) three year olds. He ate steamed broccoli last night, chicken breast the night before, and has been snacking on *raw* carrots since the day before that (he has always enjoyed well cooked carrots). He no longer wants to sleep in the fort bed on his crib mattress but instead now sleeps on the twin loft bed (hooray! now we have a storage place for toys). He sat still and listened to music for nearly two hours on our way to Sacramento yesterday without complaint (he started to complain at that point but, still, it was remarkable).
He gets our jokes and returns them with enthusiasm. A game of "I've got your nose!" the other day turned into “I’m going to eat your nose! Ew! Bleh!" and is now played on us over and over. We took him out for sushi last week which he thought was just about the best thing EVER. After he had consumed all his vegetable and shrimp tempura, a good quantity of his miso soup, and three of Hava's avocado sushi he and Matthew had only avocados sitting on their plates. Simon told Matthew "Eat your avocado!" Matthew replied, "No! YOU eat your avocado..." And so began the I've-spent-too-much-time-in-Illinois-to-appreciate-the-avocado challenge (competition named, of course, by Hava who appreciates the avocado).