Morning at the Peterson House

G: My getting so big and so strong. My the biggest. My bigger than Mattson.
M: Nuh-uh. I'm five.
G: My think I'm six. My so so big.
K: You're both big and strong and if you eat your food you'll get bigger and stronger.
M: Mom, whose the biggest in your family?

CONVERSATION ON BIGGEST PEOPLE AND HOW "LITTLE" BROTHERS CAN END UP THE BIGGEST. CONVERSATION PROGRESSES TO BIRTH ORDER.

G: My first baby is a yellow baby. My like yellow.
M: I'll have a bum baby

HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER

G: My eat your bum

ALMOST ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING...sudden stop

M: What's that smell?
K: I don't smell anything.
M: No, I have super good smell, I think I'm going to throw up. What's that smell?
G: That's my smell. It my bum.

BACK TO HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER

GO DUKE!

While Reed was away in Barcelona, suffering through meetings in chateaus and driving through the winding roads of the south of France the boys and I were driving through the completely linear roads of Georgia and South Carolina to Duke. My brother, Thomas, was attending a basketball camp so we enjoying spending the days with Grandma Candi and the nights watching plenty of stupid movies :). Walking around Cameron in between Tommy boy's games, Gray was in heaven. He just kept repeating "basketball, basketball" and running up to all the displays. The ultimate was when he walked into the Duke bookstore, ran up to a shirt and said "It's a basketball shirt, I've gotta have it." Needless to say, Grandma Candi obliged. Oh, don't worry about Matts, he managed to find an army (camo) duke hat. Is there any doubt I live in the house of testosterone?

Potter Mania

Matts (coming out of his room during breaktime): Mom, I have something really important to tell you. Dumbledore wasn't just the greatest wizard ever, he was also the greatest headmaster."

I love it.

Cousins!

We had my sister, Catherine, her husband Scott and their two little girls Madi and Izzy here for the weekend. We had lots of good cousin time, learned how to play pinochle, and I got to go on a FAST run with my little sister, aka superwoman. Not a bad agenda for less than 24 hours. It seems we are our Father's daughters :)

Manliness

We recently started our summer playgroup with some new friends. As I picked up up Matts from the first day the first words out of Karen's mouth were "there is not a drop of estrogen in Mattson's body". As I reorganized the playroom with a sniper bucket, a star wars bucket, a lightsaber bucket, a truck bucket, a car bucket, a construction bucket, a jedi bucket, a dinosaur bucket, and a tool bucket I had to agree. That said, I had to laugh when I uploaded these pics from my camera.

Matts doing yoga with me.

There's nothing wrong with a boy in pink train pajamas.

A wild weekend

We had the great pleasure of going on safari this weekend. I was absolutely blown away. It was honestly one of the coolest things we've done in Georgia. We got to feed a multitude of bison/deer/other hoofed animals. They would stick their entire head in the van trying to get the food (and the kiddo's fingers). We discover that they have nasty breath and gargantuan tongues. For Reed the highlights were the giraffe, the rhinoceros and the lightning-fast finger-eating ostriches. I loved the ligers (Chelsea; they even had two babies). I thought Shasta was the only liger -they're much better alive. For Matts the highlight was the pigs(?) and taking pictures of "Anything beautiful", such as every parrot at the park. Our fearless Gray would giggle every time he fed an animal (by himself)and even touched the rhino. I would highly, highly recommend this to anyone in the area.

Last but not least

Since I'm such an all-or-nothing girl I figured I better post this while I was in a posting mood. Reed was the champion of his fantasy basketball league. It may not seem like that big a deal, but it's a pretty intense league. I knew from the "draft" which involved a live webcast and an actual lotto machine that we were in for a ride. To top it all off Reed combined his competitive nature with his love of excel documents and after crafting an incredibly complex system he emerged victorious. Oh, how I love ALL my boys.