A few things Jadon said a few days ago seemed to underline how Jadon's life is rather sheltered, naive, & perhaps overmanaged by medically savvy parents (or so we like to think):
1. As part of the group game "Like Minds" (which he & partner cousin Joelle won; incidentally this was 2nd time we played this game even though JJ'd given the game to Sid in 2004) during our New Year's gathering, we had to write down as many things as possible to sprinkle on our food. Most of us wrote down "salt" & "pepper"... Jadon wrote down "kale"!
2. Another answer he called out when the category was "problems of teenagers": "ick-nee"
3. Later that evening he was reading Shel Silverstein's book Every Thing On It, and we read a few poems together, including "Before the Race":
Mr. Flack tells his son Jack,
"Run hard -- with no excuses."
Mr. Brill tells his son Will
He'll kill him if he loses.
Mr. Drew tells little Lou
"Be fearless but beware,"
And little Trace, he won the race
(His father wasn't there).
Jadon immediately turned to me & said, "Exactly."
