"I'm Sir Goahead!"

Good morning! Some of these are from last night.

Simon: "I'm fantabulous!"

Simon got very interested in knights and chivalry yesterday. I let him watch The Sword and the Stone and he started asking the  name of every single character in the movie (even the unnamed ones in the background) and he wanted to know the name of the knight coloring page I printed up for him. We went through a bunch: Sir Kay, Sir Ector, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad. Simon said, "I'm Sir GoAhead with a yellow shield." Hahaha!

Simon, as I'm cleaning up the breakfast dishes, "I'll give you a hand with that because I'm a knight." What a sweet boy.

Simon: "Dad can't work, 'cause it's dangerous!"


Simon: "Dear God, thank You for my food and my toy sword that is gray and is REALLY STRONG!"

Simon: "When I'm bigger, I can be a knight and say 'Step back, sir' and take people to jail!"

I hope you all have a wonderful day!

A spectacular morning

Good morning! Some of these are from yesterday.

I gave Simon a kiss and he wiped his cheek with his arm. I said, "Simon, you wiped off my kiss. That makes me sad."
Simon answered, "Don't worry, there's still some left." Silly boy.

Simon blew Jeff a kiss when he was heading to the car. Jeff blew him a kiss back and Simon said, "Dad just gave my kiss back to me! I'll give it to him." He then proceeded to blow so many kisses I thought he was going to get chapped lips.

Simon: "I'm Batman! I have to throw my boomaray at you 'cause you're a bad guy! (throws his toy at me) "Hey, why didn't my boomaray come back?"

Simon: "I can walk and run REALLY FAST! I'm multi-talented!"

Simon: "Today is spectacular!"

Whenever someone asks how Simon is doing, he always answers, "I'm doing yes." Today when I asked how he was he said, "I'm doing yes, and yes, and yes!" I hope that means he's very happy.

Fun at the park

Jeff told Simon that he should go on the "shaky bridge" at the park. Simon looked at it and said, "I can't. It's too risky."

While climbing on the playground at the park, Simon informed us that he is "afraid of heights."

Simon met a little girl who he ended up playing with. She tried to get him to go down one of the tunnel slides with him; he climbed into the top and decided that he didn't want to. Jeff said, "You need to try new things." and PUSHED HIM into the slide! Simon ended up liking it and went down several more times, but he quite easily could have been terrified. Both of my guys are funny!

Simon: " What's the fountain for?"
Me:" It looks pretty."
Jeff:" Birds take baths in it sometimes."
Simon: :That's gross!"

Simon teaches Jeff new words.

Simon: "Dear God, thank you for cheeeeese!"

Last night Jeff was teaching Simon the months of the year. He got to October with Simon repeating after him.
Jeff: "Can you say 'October'"?
Simon: "Can you say 'motorcycle'"?
Hahaha!

Simon:"I want mushrooms for breakfast. I love green mushrooms! You do too."
He has never eaten mushrooms.

Simon: "I'm Superman, so I need sausage."
Me:" Um, we don't have any sausage. Do you want yogurt and toast for breakfast."
Simon: (with a big sigh) "I guess. Rex1 (a robot he likes to pretend he is) likes yogurt."

Me: "Simon! Why did you put your toy in your yogurt?"
Simon: "He was just swimming."
Uh huh.

Surprise!

Simon's grandma came over last night to celebrate her birthday with us. As we're eating our dinner, Simon said, "We have a surprise for you and it's a movie and a puzzle."
"Simon!", I said, trying to get him to stop telling  his grandma what presents she would be getting.
 He looked at me and yelled, "WHAT!?!" Grandma was a great sport and pretended to be surprised anyway, since Simon wanted her to.

Simon asked if the cockroach that I've spent the better part of the morning trying to get rid of is a dog. That's how big it is. The score right now is cockroach: 1 (I jumped about three feet when it made its' appearance, and squeaked) Jodie: 0 (right now, it is randomly poking its' head out from between our oven hood and the wall. I think it's mocking me).

Simon:"I'm going to get a surprise and it's a robot with a camera and it goes (insert gun noises). Deal?"
Me:"We'll buy you a toy if you go poop in the potty." (we're desperate)
Simon: "That's not how it works! I get a surprise without going poop."
Me: "No, you have to use the bathroom like a big boy. Robots go to the bathroom." (Did I mention that I'm desperate?)
Simon: "Aaaah! I'm overreacting!!!!"

Superhero flowers...

Simon: "I want to call Dad at work and tell him to come home and visit me." Awww!

For no apparent reason, Simon burst into tears. When I asked him what was wrong, he said (in between sobs) that he wanted to give me a hug. I said, "Of course, Simon. You can always give me hugs!"
Simon answered, "No I can't 'cause you'll break." It took me almost ten minutes to calm him down. I think someone is a little tired.

Simon: "When I'm bigger and stronger, I can have  money and I'll buy you surprises. The surprise will be superhero flowers!"

Simon: "I have a secret. Here's the secret: when I'm older, I can watch Star Wars and the robot will defeat Darth Vader!" He tends to combine Star Wars and Transformers in his mind, having seen neither.

Simon: "I have to punch you 'cause I'm a superhero called Beater-Upper Guy and I have to defeat you 'cause it's my job."

Just some original "Simonisms" to start the day. Hope it's a good one, everybody!

It has to be brand-name

While we were at the store last night, Jeff put some of the store-brand tape in our cart. Simon wanted Jeff to get the (much more expensive) scotch tape with the green package. When Jeff said not this time, Simon answered, "Dad, you are making me annoying! Annoying starts with A! A, A, annoying."