Big guy

Simon had his two year checkup today, and he's officially doing great! He is 34.5 inches and 28.5 lbs., which puts him right in the middle of the pack for his age. It's quite a comeback from when he was down to the 6th percentile for weight at his 15 month checkup.

He eats pretty well for a two year old, still likes raw onions and—even more mystifying—loves sardines. He'll just eat them right out of the can. Teta left some here (great nutritional value!) and we figured we'd let him try them since we weren't going to eat them.

More Birthday, Little Dude!

We combined Simon's family birthday party with Mother's Day. Simon is going to think that EVERY Sunday is his birthday.

Everyone is working on Simon's new puzzle, except Simon.

Happy Birthday, Little Dude!

Simon turned 2 today! Even though we are having our family party for him next week (combined with Mother's Day), we decided to do some fun stuff today. He opened a few presents, ate peanut butter banana pancakes for breakfast, went to the zoo, did a new puzzle (dinosaurs!) and had birthday muffins after dinner with candles. He really seems to understand that birthdays are special, and they involve cake. So he's pretty excited.

Potty

We bought Simon a potty seat a few weeks ago, along with a super fun book about learning to use the potty. He had been showing some interest, and we did some practice sitting on the potty, and read the book about a million times (he LOVED it!). Then it seemed like he lost interest for a while, but last night he asked to sit on the potty before getting in the bath, and for the first time actually used the potty for real!

Okay, it's weird and gross to get all excited about pee, but it's nice to make a little progress toward a diaper-free existence. I think it will still be few months before we potty train him for real, since he can't currently get his pants off by himself. Baby steps!