Simon bought breakfast

We went out to breakfast with Auntie Lisa on Sunday and Simon generously offered to pay.  Here he is signing the credit card slip

Look at his grip on that pen!

Tyler's 2nd Birthday

We went to Tyler's 2nd Birthday party at Jump Zone today. It is a bouncy castle party place and was a ton of fun. Below are lots of pictures of Simon, Tyler, Karmen and Alan all playing in the bouncy castles. Then pizza at a local place afterward. When we got home I turned on the backyard lights while Simon and Alan were still coming up and Simon said 'WHAT!?' and ran to a light. Apparently he hadn't realized what they were for before since he'd never been in the backyard in the dark.

The place

Karmen, Tyler (in red), and Simon

Simon liked the car better than Tyler opening presents.

Owen (not Tyler) blowing out Tyler's Birthday Candles.

Yum, cake.

Light!

Cind-umbrella

One weekend afternoon back in September I needed to do some chores around the house so we had to find a nice quiet easy way for Emily to watch Simon for a while.  They ended up snuggling on the couch and watching his first full movie: Cinderella.  He watched some of Shrek with the Delaney boys during the baby shower in August, and he occasionally watches an episode of Blues Clues or Sesame Street with us, but this was the first time he was able to watch a movie from beginning to end.  Unsurprisingly, he loved it and kept talking afterwards about "Cind-umbrella".

It was probably 80 degrees out that day, but Simon always wants a blanket when snuggling with Mama

Apple picking fun!

Tuesday with Karmen

Simon eating blueberry and flax seed pancakes at Karmen's. Even a little hip wiggle dance for your entertainment...

Hanging out at School Park

Frasca Dinner and a Digger on the Way Home

They are doing construction at Hamilton School on the corner of Paulina and Cornelia - converting the black topped area that faces us to grass.  Today they had a digger and a bulldozer there to pull up the black top and Simon and Daddy spent quite a while watching the process in the afternoon, we paused on our walk to Frasca and then we watched the digger get onto the truck to go home for about 15 minutes on our walk home. I think Simon will dream about Machines at Work tonight.