ABC's and pop quiz

This video is from last week. Simon says most of the alphabet and answers questions!!

I might have already posted this but I will do it again because it is SO cute! He is repeating 'cool dude' over and over!!

Day at the park

Friday funday!!

Dentist and Pacifier

On Monday Alan and I had appointments with the dentist. Like every other time we've had appointments since Simon was born, we had him swing by to visit. He looks at the fish in the lobby, meets the dentist and sits in the chair. This time was a little different because when he sat in the chair, Ginger, the dental assistant, showed him Mr. Thirsty. Mr. Thirsty sucks the water from a cup or from your mouth! She let Simon hold the cup and the sucker and showed him how to put it into his mouth a couple times (which made him laugh). He got more comfortable and let her check out his mouth and even let her put the mirror in there so she could see his teeth. He has one of his 2 year molars and all 16 of the other kids teeth we'd expect him to have. They look great. (He does brush twice a day!) But she noticed that his front teeth are a little pushed forward and she guessed that he still used a pacifier. She suggested we get him off the pacifier soon, before 2 and his teeth should adjust themselves. After Simon's dentist visit it was Alan's turn. While Alan got his teeth cleaned Simon and I walked to the lake and found a cute little park with swings and boats. Alan joined us for a bit before we went home for dinner and bed.

Luckily Jenn is awesome - she started transitioning Simon away from pacifiers at nap time ages ago so the next steps we hoped would be easy. On Tuesday there was a serious conversation about throwing the pacifier away and then Simon threw it in the trash and said Goodbye. On Tuesday night before he went to bed I reminded him about throwing the pacifier in the trash and he remembered but he still looked around for it when I set him down. Another quick reminder and he stopped looking and settled down. Then Simon went to sleep just like normal - meaning he talked to his animals and waived his feet in the air for about 20 minutes after I left before falling asleep. He slept all night, no issues! In the morning there was a brief period of looking for the pacifier (usually it's lost in the blankets, so that's a routine) and when I reminded him again that he put it in the trash, Simon stopped looking and was fine. Wednesday night Alan reminded him again before bed time and Simon went to sleep like normal and this morning no looking. It might be a bit early to declare complete victory, but I cautiously present that we are pacifier free.

Here are some photos of the park on Monday:

And I'm UP!

Now how do I get down?

Birds!

row, row, row your boat!

Simon totally climbed this.

Simon climbed this 3 or 4 times (with spotting)

So he could go down this slide. 

Baby trains and turtle basketball

Some fun videos of Simon from a few weeks ago.  In them he's playing trains with his baby doll, giving big hugs, and making a great shot with his knitted turtle.

Good morning

Good morning out there! 

Play date

Simon's little play date girlfriend Gabbi moved away last month but I am friends with the nanny and she is now with a new family. We had a play date with them this week, Kyla is 3 and Kinsey is 3 months. We had a blast!! Kyla offered Simon a tattoo as soon as we walked in and a snack (which won his heart) and he was forced to play the prince to Snow White pretend as well. Haha. Simon and Kyla held hands when moving from room to room and they were both very concerned with where one another went. Very cute!

My little Narcissist - almost ABCs, almost counting, almost singing

The other afternoon Simon was showing off his ABC's and I was very impressed. He can get through almost the whole alphabet with just a tiny bit of prompting. I wanted to get it on video for you guys to all see.

This is my first attempt:

Simon was having none of it. He wanted to look at whatever was on my phone! So I flipped the camera around and set it on the table so both he and you had a good view of his face. Then I thought it was go time for the alphabet...

How could I know that he'd become such a narcissist  "No, Mama, I don't want to say the alphabet or count, I want to look at myself." Note when he's explaining he doesn't want to count he count's a bit to make sure I understand. We stopped so he could have a bite of my dinner (he'd already finished his). Then we resumed and I tried to get him to sing for me. 

We had practiced singing Tomorrow from Annie earlier in the afternoon so initially he came in on queue, but then he remembered that he liked Snuggle Puppy better. And who wouldn't? So we switched to that for a second and then we had to go find the book to read. (It was written as a book but put to music, very cute to listen to if you haven't heard before.)

And that was a glimpse of our afternoon.

Breakfast and cleanup

Breakfast this morning was yogurt and Cheerios. Simon then used a washcloth to clean the cabinets and floor. I was thinking that needed to be done, glad he got to it for me. We swept and vacuumed together this morning as well. Non-stop excitement at the Basque house!

Dermatologist

We went to the dermatologist at Children's Hospital yesterday to check in on the hemangioma on Simon's head and lip. The dermatologist said he looked awesome and we didn't need to come see her again (we went in just as a precautionary thing). She also said he was a super sweet kid and everyone there said he was the best patient of the day. 

Here are some photos of the waiting room, which was awesomely designed with a section all for Simon aged kids. 

In addition they weighed him and he is 11.1 Kg, which is 1.7 stone. I'm going to start reporting his weight in stone because it sounds super cool. (And if you insist on something familiar, that is 24.7 pounds.)

Simon Van Gogh

Simon and I went to a kids open art studio on Friday and we had a blast!!!!!

Train rides and park :)

Coolest kid I know!!!!

Fancy Tuesday