Delights of the table

We thought we'd wait till Thomas's half-birthday last week (incidentally, he is 27 1/2 inches tall and weighs 17 pounds 11 ounces, putting him at 90th percentile for height and 50th for weight) to start him on solid foods, but he had other plans.
At four and a half months, he shot out a hand and grabbed a clam out of my linguine alle vongole at the neighborhood Italian place one night. An allergen and a choking hazard! I separated him from it hurriedly, but he continued showing an interest in food and is now eating all kinds of age-appropriate things. His favorite food is avocado.
James, meanwhile, likes octopus. We've taken him out for tapas several times recently, and always have to get him his own octopus dish. Usually the waiter has trouble believing that's what he wants, but James replies. "More octopus? Absolutely!"
(James has also been using "soon" to mean "not now" recently, as in "NO! Bath SOON!" Too funny.)