Around the World

For the past couple of days Simon and I have pretended to be robots, and walking/dancing around the kitchen to some appropriate dancing robot music.  I finally managed to catch a few seconds of video of him doing that this afternoon.

Time Change and Out to Dinner

With the time change on Sunday the 17th Alan and I planed not to adjust Simon so that instead of going to bed at 5 and waking at 6ish, Simon would go to bed at 6 and wake up at 7ish. He wouldn't change, just the world around him would -- PERFECT PLAN!

Sadly, it didn't work that way. In the 1 week we tried it Simon just kept on waking up right at 6ish as though he had an alarm clock set. But he was going to bed later so had one hour less of sleep. We definitely noticed an attitude shift and after 7 full days we decided to switch him back to the 5pm bed time. Last night he passed out at 5 with a greatful sigh... And woke at 6 again on the dot.

In that one week of later bedtime we at least managed to go out to a family dinner. (One of the reasons we wanted the later time was to do family things like that.) I was working from the coffee shop so picked up Simon at 4 and we met Alan at the Wellington train stop for burgers at DMK. Simon and I were about 15 minutes early, so we waited on the platform and just watched all the trains go by. What a happy kid. I didn't manage to get his excited oooh! face but you can see how focused he is on the tracks.  When it isn't cold and rainy I'm going to take him to the platform and we can watch trains until he gets sick of it. (This video was taking about 10 minutes into our waiting for Alan. If possible he was more excited every time a train went by.)

In DMK Simon ditched the tomato and lettuce and most of the bun but inhaled his burger. We decided it was time for him to try onion rings and they were a huge hit. You can see him begging for more in the next video. He got a grown up sized burger and still managed to find room to shove (literally) those onion rings in. He is right - they are the best darn fried onions around.

Imaginary Car

The other day we had a package delivered in a large flat box.  I sat down in the box and told Simon I was driving a car.  He thought that was great, and climbed into the "car" with me to go for a ride.  After a bit, I pointed at the blank wall in front of us and told him there was a red light so we had to stop.  I asked him to tell me when it turned green so we could go again.  He waited patiently for a few seconds, then pointed at the wall and said "Geeen! GOOOO!!" so we pretended to drive again.  It was really neat to see him using his imagination like that... he's been making his stuffed animals dance and drinking pretend tea from cups for a while but this was the first time I can think of that he's played just by imagining things in his head.

After I got out of the box car, he asked me if he could drive.  He grabbed a bunch of his animal friends and the packing paper from the box and took a pretend road trip (hitting a few red lights along the way).  And the next morning and the past few days he keeps going back to play with his car.

After the jump, a video of him driving and a few pictures of him loading up the car.

Bloody Nose, Pasta dinner

Simon got his first bloody nose today. He was running around in socks playing as he does so often that it has been an accident waiting to happen. He went to stop and his feet just slipped all over and momentum kept his top half going a little too fast so he bopped his face smack on the ground. He sat up stunned and started to cry. Jenn gave him a snuggle and as he calmed down she noticed the trickle of blood. They tried icing it but apparently that doesn't work very well on toddlers. He was tough though and all was fine but bloody noses are scary. Poor kid.

To end on a much happier note. Here he is later in the afternoon eating a meatball and some pasta for dinner.

New Friends

Simon found a scrap of yarn on the floor and Jenn told him it was a little worm. He has spent the past 3 days or so throwing the worm in the air and then searching the ground for it. Who would have guessed that we could get hours of entertainment from a scrap of yarn?

Jenn and Simon have been hanging out with another nanny and her two little charges. Gabby (in the purple jacket) is three days older than Simon and lives at the end of our block across from the school. She has a 6 month old little sister, Cecelia, who mostly just leaves the big kids to play. Simon and Gabby are a good play-pairing as Simon is very much more vocal than Gabby (who says only 3 words) and Gabby is much more physical than Simon (she's also about 3 inches taller than him). Unfortunately they are moving away at the end of this week, so the almost daily play dates will end.  Jenn will just have to pick up more nannys! 

Synchronized Sliding

High Five!

Potty Training Update

We are taking potty training pretty casually but there has been some pretty awesome progress... Simon went pee in the potty! Twice! The first time was February 26th and the second was Friday, March 8th.  Jenn has been really great about remaining consistent and keeping up potty time without a lot of progress. For potty time Simon hangs out on the potty and reads for a while and every once in a while will stand up and check the potty to see if anything happened. He is pretty excited about the potty, especially flushing the big toilet, but doesn't 100% understand yet what it's all about.

No pictures for this post. Thought it was best for everyone.

5 pancakes

Simon ate 5 pancakes for breakfast this morning. AND a bowl of fruit and two pieces of sausage. I guess he was hungry?