Red Peppers

There are only 3 vegetables Z will eat. Red peppers happens to be one of them. (broccoli and carrots are the other two and these are sincerely the only healthy things this child will eat! But the food battles are for another post)

I had chopped up red pepper on the cutting board exposing the seedy inside. Z zipped past the counter and stopped mid-stride once he saw the pepper. "Look at all those seeds!" he screamed. "Mom you should plant those! We'd be the red pepper store then and sell them! We'd sell them for a million dollars each and be rich!"
Love his enthusiasm!

Z has been in to selling lately as his school fundraiser has come around. And very into learning what everything costs and how much he can afford with his occasional earned $1.00. He is even volunteering to vacuum the house every week so he can earn a dollar. He blows it on a dollar store type toy every time. We're working on the concept of saving so you can get something better.

And I will have to explain that red peppers do not cost a million dollars.

I can see for miles

This morning, Z woke me up by cuddling up next to me and asking "remember the big buildings around the place where I got the big bat?" The day before, we went to Taste of Cleveland, a downtown festival where a former client of mine, who runs the event, treated Z to any prize he wanted. It turned out to be a blow-up bat as tall as daddy. Hmmm.

I said "yeah, you mean all the buildings downtown?" "Yes," he said. "If we climbed all the way to the top of them, could we see grandma and papa's house?" so cute. They live in Cincinnati. "No, sweetie, they're too far away." "What if we climbed up the Eiffel Tower?" "Still don't think so," I said. "What about the tallest building in the whole world, one that goes all the way up to the moon?" "I don't think there is a building that tall, buddy. You could see their house if you were in a plane, maybe."

Love these observations as Z tries to understand distance and spatial differences.