random thoughts

Tonight's bedtime conversation with Simon was a jumble of random thoughts. I was entertained just lying beside him, listening to him rattle off whatever popped into his mind. I have to admit, I don't often do that as he is more of the active, physical one and Ella is the talker. But Simon is changing and becoming more verbally expressive as he gets older. He went on and on about how he didn't like running in the sprinkler because it makes his hands cold and he didn't want to get his hands dirty either. And somehow, every thought ended up coming back to the movie, "James and the Giant Peach" which he and Ella watched at Aunt Jessica's over the weekend and it left quite an impression. I think it might have been a little scary. But the most notable point of the conversation was when we talked about getting bigger...

Simon: I don't want to get big.

Me: Why not?

Simon: I want to stay little.

Me: But why Simon? Don't you want to grow up and be big like Daddy?

Simon: I don't want my legs to be brote! (broken)

I think he believed that the strain of getting that much bigger might be too much for his bones to handle. Once I explained that if he ate all his healthy food, everything would all grow at the same time and would be strong, he decided he wanted to get bigger after all.