utah

the first 11 days of may were spent in utah. i hate traveling alone with simon, but then he goes and does something like this in the airport...

it seems like there are so many more things for simon to do at nana and papa's house. but that's only if we stay at the house. we go out a lot more in nyc. i love how his mind is developing. this is a picture of the train tracks that he made with scrap wood he found outside.

nana makes smoothies everyday now. simon kind of looked like the joker after drinking out of her big cup.

the best thing about this drawing was when i saw it simon had already finished the face, but told me he wasn't done yet and still needed to draw ears.

we went to thanksgiving point. they have a fish pond. simon fed some fish.

but we went for the tulip festival. traffic was bad and it took so long to get there. we didn't have as much time as we would have liked. and i didn't get as many pictures as i would have liked. we saw a garden snake, but it was gone by the time i had my camera out.

my sister decided to come visit our dad while we were there. it was fun being there together, even if i do see her 2-3 times a week in nyc.

a while back nana bought a bench for simon. good thing he came to visit or she may not have ever assembled it.

we went to lunch at taco time our last day there. simon and papa john had a lot of fun making faces at each other.

simon had a lot of fun and asks to go back almost everyday. we took the red-eye back to ny and simon went straight to his last class of book buddies after we got home. he did really well, but fell asleep when we took a walk to get a delicious frozen treat. he usually doesn't fall asleep while walking.

(may 1-12, 2011)