First time eating corn on the cob. Elliot loved it so much, he asked if I could pack some for school lunch.
Elliot was watching a YouTube video where a character was crying after smelling an onion. I explained to Elliot how that happens. He was very surprised and wanted to see me experience this. We immediately went to the supermarket and bought a onion and a black balloon with black string (he chose the color). And at home, I cut the onion and showed him how it makes me cry. He laughed! He was not very interested in trying it himself.
Yesterday was his first time eating a nectarine.
UPDATE 2020-09-17: first time using a stapler. He spent 10 minutes stapling blank sheets of paper together
Today in the pool was his first time doing a backflip: I flipped him backwards over my shoulder. We did that a few dozen times because he loved it so much.
Also today was his first time floating in an inner tube. He borrowed one from a girl in the pool. He absolutely loved it and asked if I’d buy one (“borrow one”).
The pumpkin seeds we planted in the garden… Elliot’s never watched plants growing closely. He expects them to grow much faster. The pumpkins should already be there! He thought they would appear the same day we planted the seeds.
There are so many new things for him every day! It is wonderful to experience them vicariously.
Every day he examines a plastic pass from Halloween that Max and I used to enter the Andersen Farms Haunted House and Zombie Paintball Hunt. He asks me to tell him what the paintball hunt says, and to explain how it works. Every day for the last three days and also last week. Finally today he asked if he could go with me.
Then he asked if he could wear the badge/pass to the pool. I told him people would be scared of him ( it has a small image of a zombie on it).
