Holy Confusion, Batman

This toy used to be Ernie's when he was a kid, and now it's Samuel's. However, Samuel cannot quite grasp WHO it is supposed to be. He'll ask us "is it a bad man on there?" or he'll pat his hands on his legs and then ask "is it pat man on there? does he go pat pat pat" I suppose a person dressed up in a bat suit is kind of a strange concept. It doesn't help that Samuel has never seen a bat before, and even if he saw one in a book, it doesn't look anything like batman's costume. But he's really more interested in the motorcycle batman is riding anyway. Hello, complete obsession with cars and trucks, welcome to our home.

In other language news, we have officially entered the "why" stage. EVERYTHING you say to Samuel is countered with "why?" Sometimes I know he asks because he's stalling, and doesn't want to move on to the next activity. But most of the time I think he asks because he really is very curious.

He was sick most of last week (because he decided it would be a good idea to eat an entire box of cheez-it crackers by himself in less than 24 hours!) so we now are having a lot of conversations about healthy foods, and not eating too much of any one thing. Sly kid that he is, he tried to tell us last night that he couldn't eat his pizza because he needed some healthy food. What almost 3-year old will not eat pizza? Apparently the same one who will not touch eggs of any kind, refuses to eat meat unless it is a chicken nugget, and is able to pick a single solitary spice out of his spaghetti sauce and put it to the side. We even have a whole cookbook about sneaking healthy foods into regular foods so your kids will eat them. Like you blend up zucchini and put it into sloppy joes. This would work great if we could actually get Samuel to eat sloppy joes. We need a cookbook that has strategies for hiding healthy foods inside of crackers, since he is more than happy to eat those.