Seriously?! on Sunday.He thinks the mermaid’s shell bra is muscles.He cannot see below his chin and I may have told him I made him into the Hulk.This is why he is making the body builder flexing/Hulk face.I really, really am a good mom.
When Peter started kindergarten I asked him how school was going. Elliott, “Horrible. My assistant teacher is so mean!”
Me, “What is her name again?”
Peter, “Ms. No.”
Me, “Ms. Snow?”
Peter, “No! Ms. N-O! Like she says NO to everything!
About a week later he came home from school and said, “Ms. No quit. I asked if she got fired but my teacher said she just quit.” Thank goodness we had a curriculum meeting that night. I asked his teacher if it was true she no longer had an assistant. She confirmed that Peter was correct.
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Our kids have traveled enough to be accustomed to walking through a metal detector. What struck them all funny while entering a pro basketball arena is that were using the wand to manually scan people. Peter stood in line for a long time completely fascinated watching people step up and put their arms out and legs out while the gal went all around them. He asked if they were going to do it to the kids as well. He asked what exactly they were looking for and he asked LOUDLY, “What are you going to do with your pocket knife mom?!” I felt it best to ignore him like he was just some crazy kid. He showed me. He waited until the mob of people were even closer to the security person and said again, “Whaaaatttt are you going to do with your pocket knife MOM?” It’s always a good day when it ends without my kids getting me arrested.
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He came home from first grade with the above picture. I spent FOREVER trying to figure it out so he wouldn’t be insulted. A mom having multiple babies perhaps? I finally asked and wished I hadn’t.
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His reply, “Oh. that’s Fat Bastard from Austin Powers and he’s all like…GET IN MY BELLY! That is the guy being sucked in his stomach.” For the record my darling husband let him and his older brothers watch a couple of scenes from the movie, when I wasn’t around, I found out.
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Peter doing his kindergarten homework, “This is just ridiculous homework. She wants me to count our windows and doors. I’m only counting the doors that go outside.” He writes 8 for doors. Then I look down and ask him what he wrote in the space for windows, as I’m confused . Elliott, “I just wrote the symbol for infinity because this homework is dumb and I’m not walking around counting windows! Like I can’t count. I’m sure!”
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He said he was going outside to play
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The kids had a random day off from school so I dragged Peter with me to run some errands. While at the mall and after telling poor Peter this was the last store, “I promise!” We were at the checkout counter when Peter did the thing I do to the kids when I mean business. Peter standing to my side said, “Mom” (to get me to look at his face) then he says, “Mom, I need you to walk back out of this store and through the mall with your eyes closed. Do you understand? No more looking…eyes closed.” (said out of the top of his eyes with a tortured look of Lurch from the Adams family.)
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This is what everyone with kids below age five think of their kids
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This is what happens when they turn five and have two big brothers
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“Mom, since I cannot tell if my hermit crab is a boy or a girl…can I name it uniSEX? (said with the sex in a low slow whisper and a coy look on his face) You know, like a bathroom and not like a bad word.”
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When the second year of swim season was about to begin I asked Peter if he wanted to be on the swim team again. His reply, “No, and if you make me I will break my own arm so I can’t swim“
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Jim’s mom was here visiting. I am pretty sure I’m going to win “Mother of the Year” after this one…Peter, as most people know, prefers his hair on the “longer” side. It is currently on the longest of the longer sides right now. Jim’s mom asks him if he wants to got get a haircut. Peter’s reply was that he likes his hair like this and that he is not losing “that” twenty bucks. Jim’s mom confused asks him what he is talking about and he says, “two of my buddies and I have a bet who is going to get a haircut first and Will already got his cut now it’s just Andy and I left.” I was speechless and yet supportive of his endeavor and also certain none of them have thought about where the 20 bucks was coming from. 
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The teacher has him write down his favorite dish that is made at home and has him write down how to make it. Then the teacher has the parents submit the actual recipe. What recipe does Peter come home requesting? Beef loin with shallots and rosemary.
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Peter’s perfect Saturday morning…Star Wars computer game..rockin the head phones, in his underwear, at his big brothers desk. You cannot keep clothes on him! He would live on Hot Tamales…he is so strange!
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