Simeon

has grown carrots.  This is more than his mother can do.  I don’t know why, but I can’t seem to get carrot seeds to germinate, and if they do, they turn out to be spindly, tiny little things that are about the size of a toothpick – width and all.  Not good.  But Sim did it.  It reminds me a bit of this fun book, which I recommend. 

I love that he’s winking in this one!

Hannah was most excited, too, and helped with the harvest.

I put the carrots into our soup last Sunday, at Simeon’s request.  We also had some for lunch throughout the week.  The bunnies helpfully ate the tops, which Sim also thought was awesome. 

And today, Simeon got a big boy haircut.  By Mama, because he doesn’t want to have a haircutter at Dad’s haircuttery do it – I don’t know why, but every time I’ve suggested it, he’s resisted.  So I decided to do it, because he needed a cut and because I wanted to see his eyes and get him to be a bit cooler for the summer.  And because he’s going on four (!).

The carrot pictures are helpfully positioned to be the “before” shots.  Here’s “after”:

I bribe him to sit still for haircuts by playing youtube videos of Silly Songs from Veggie Tales on the computer.

He doesn’t actually see what’s happening while it’s happening, which might be for the best.  You should have seen Michael’s face when he saw my first pass with the clippers…

Sim wanted to see the picture after I took this.  He was taken aback – it’s quite a change.  But after his sisters assured him that he looked like Dada and like his boy cousin in town, he decided he loved it.

He was a bit sad getting out of the tub.

Then I asked him if he was sad because his hair had shrunk in the bath.  He thought that was funny.  I offered to try to stick it back on with tape, and he thought that was funny, too.

I can’t believe what a big boy he’s becoming!