Simon Cowell and Girlfriend Lauren Silverman Enjoy the Carnival With Their Son Eric — Pics!

While some fans surrounded the music mogul while he was out and about, he does admit that Eric doesn’t really know his dad is famous. “He’s very funny. I was with him yesterday and he said, ‘Daddy, how come everybody smiles at you?’” Simon once recalled to Us Weekly.

“And I went, ‘No, it’s you! They all know your name,’” he continued. “I said, ‘From the minute you were born, for some reason, everybody knew your first name.’ He went, ‘Really?’ I said, ‘Yeah! They knew your name.’ So I said, ‘It’s you!’”

The talent manager has also acknowledged how fast his son is growing up. “[Time flies] like you wouldn’t believe,” Simon told the outlet. “I said to someone the other day, ‘It’s much easier than I thought.’ And then you can’t imagine ever not having him … It’s the most amazing feeling.”

While at the carnival, Simon also took the chance to show off his new, slim physique — a figure he thanks his young child for. “Apart from ice cream, he actually likes water [and] eats all his raw vegetable,” Simon dished to Extra. “I’m on the Eric Cowell diet.”

Simon dived more into his “new diet,” adding, “I went to see this guy who’s very well known. And he said to me after doing some blood work, ‘You can’t have red meat, dairy, sugar, bread or gluten.’ I’m thinking, ‘What about alcohol?’ He said, ‘Maybe not quite as much as you had before.’ And I did it and I stuck to it and it’s easy.”

It certainly seems like this trio had quite the time at the Chili Cook-Off Carnival!