Does your bologna have a first name?

Well, we have embarked on a new chapter in our lives. It is more or less Jerry's new chapter. He is now personifying everything. He will only eat and play with things that are blue or "boy" colored. He came up to me with Gia's apron the other night. The apron is blue....and ruffled and covered in pretty white daisies (see below). He asked me to put this on. I said okay. He says, it's blue, it's a boy one. Oh, ok Jerry, are we just dismissing the ruffles then? It's blue. What about the flowers? It's blue, it's a boy one. So I tied a cute little bow in the back and said have fun. Then last week, JT went to go get donuts for us. He picked out the donuts with multi-colored sprinkles on them for the kids. What kid wouldn't love a fried, circular piece of dough dipped in warm, sugar glaze and then so delicately and asymmetrically covered in colorful, pure sugar, sprinkles? I'll tell you who, a kid who is obsessed with food being gender specific. We set that donut in front of him and takes one look at it, and only sees the pink sprinkles. He completely ignores the fact that there are green, white, yellow and orange sprinkles. He zeroes in on those pink ones and here it comes. "It's a girl donut." Jerry no it isn't, it's a boy one too. He starts throwing his head back and forth, sticks that bottom lip way out, "it's a girl, no, it's a girl one, I want blue." There stands JT, Gia, and I trying to convince another human being that the donut is indeed a boy. Then I stop and say, what are we doing, we are trying to convince him that a DONUT is a boy. Jerry, either eat the inanimate object or don't. Period. It has no gender. So, needless to say, Jerry did not eat breakfast. Who seriously needs convincing to eat a donut. It is not just donuts, it is everything, car seats, plates, cups, toys, etc. He only eats blueberry yogurt, blueberry pop tarts, blueberry cereal bars. I am not even fully convinced he likes the blueberry flavor. He is eating for color, not taste. Could it be, dun dun dun..... Chromatophobia...haha