My kid is weird.

Rand has some very odd little phobias. All of his clothes were starting to get pretty snug, so I went through everything and got out the 3T clothes (aside: it's so strange to think that I have an almost-3-year-old). Amongst his new t-shirts were several with different characters: Bob the Builder, Elmo, Jimmy Neutron, etc. Nothing freaky about them. But Rand absolutely will not wear them.


I finally got him to wear the Jimmy Neutron pajamas -- because I'm scottish and there is no way that I will go buy new pajamas when there is a perfectly good pair in the dresser -- by turning the top inside out so you can't see the character and unabashedly lying to him that "No, these are just blue pajamas."

He also was given a pair of blue crocs by someone who outgrew them. But will he wear them? Nope, even though his toes are completely squished inside his red ones.

However, Rand has finally conquered his fear of Thomas the Train. About a year ago, we got a Thomas video from the library. We thought we were brilliant -- Rand loves trains, Thomas is a train, this will be awesome. Wrong! Rand was happily watching the movie when Thomas crashed. Rand let out the most terrified scream that I have ever heard, and ever since then he has proclaimed that "Thomas is too scary." In his weirdness, though, Rand still likes to check out Thomas movies from the library, but they just sit on the shelf for a couple of weeks and then we return them.

Last week I decided to be a mean mom and just put the Thomas movie on. Rand was screaming and crying but I told him he just needed to watch it for two minutes, and if he didn't like it, then we would turn it off. Sure enough, after two minutes he was LOVING it. And now he can watch Thomas movies.

Maybe if I just wrestle him into the Elmo shirt he'll get over it.

In other news, Miss Ella is turning into quite a chunky monkey! She was up to 12lbs 2oz on Monday at her 2-month appointment, and is 23" tall. She was quite charming and smiled like crazy at the doctor. I love the double chin!