Fridge Art Friday!

Peter's crazy-art kit allowed him to make some pretty cool pictures! 

Volcano (stenciled) a Long Neck Dinosaur, 

a Pteranodon, a Stream and Dino Foot Prints:

"Daddy" Spider, a "Mommy" Spider (next to the tree), a "Baby Spider"

a "Big Boy" Spider and, of course, a Dinosaur Foot Print:

Peter's Phrases

Peter: "Mom, can you please turn on the light, so that I can put my seatbelt on?"
Mom: "Sure" (turns on light)
Peter: "Can you please turn the light off now?"
Mom: "Sure thing . . . and good job using your good manners, Dude!"
Peter:  "Thanks!  It's like what the Bible tells us to do . . . 'Use your good manners . . . .' (thinking). . . or something" 

Things NOT to say in public

Peter - "Dad . . . beat Mom!"
Dad - "What?!?!?"
Peter - "BEAT Mom!"
Mom - "Excuse ME?"
Peter - "You know, like in a race!"


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Peter - "Look!  There' a big fat man!"  . . . . this is a hard one.  He was technically telling the truth, you know.  So, I guess we'll be learning more about MANNERS!

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Peter - "Um, Grandma . . . . I can't wash my hands . . your sink is kind of dirty"
 (which actually was lime built up just around the tip of the bottom of the sink - honestly . . . this one was, I guess you could call, my little 'guilty pleasure' - my mom is the 'clean queen' . . so, for him to think that THAT was 'dirt', kind of made my day - OF COURSE, I didn't tell HIM that!)

Funny Quote #152

Peter and Daddy played on the wii last evening, while I spent a couple of hours catching up with a good friend at a coffee shop.  I came home after bedtime, so Tim brushed their teeth, PJed them up and read them their bedtime story all before I got home.  Tim told me about how much fun he and Peter had playing the wii resort together and how good Peter was doing on the game. 

That next morning, during breakfast, I said to Peter, "So, Pete, Dad told me how much fun you guys had playing on the wii . . . Daddy said you're doing really well!"

Peter responded, "(sigh) Yea, we did . . .. but, it's a long story . . . we'll talk about it later"

Pete's Thoughts

Driving on the Highway
Peter: WOW, Mom . . look at all of those bridges!
Mom: Yeah, buddy! There are lots of them!
Peter: God made those bridges, didn't He?
Mom: Well, God gave the strength to do the work to a bunch of bridge builders, so, yes - He DID make the bridges
Peter: God made EVERYTHING!!
Mom: That is right!
Peter: That sure was nice of God to do.



Night-Night Prayer
Peter: Dear Jesus, please forgive me of my sins, help me to be a better good boy. Thank You for the nice weather that we are having. Please help me to have humility. Thank You for Your goodness. Amen.


Listening to Mariah Cary's 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' . . . .
Peter: Wow, she sure is excited to get something for Christmas!!

So, the boys and I are in the car listening to Christmas music, on our way back from the mall, and this is the conversation . . .

Peter: Mom, this song is SO true! They ARE miles away!

Mom: (listening quickly to the song) What is Sweetie?

Peter: All of our troubles.

(song: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas)

From Peter's View

He got ahold of my camera (after asking, of course!)

You want WHAT?

Tim: Ok, Peter, what do you want for lunch?

Peter: Um. . . a peanut butter and paper-cut jelly sandwich.

Tim: You WANT a paper cut? Peter, do you know what a paper cut IS?

Peter: Yay, it's little and round and orange.

Me: Peter! You goofball . . do you mean APRICOT ??

Peter: Oh, yea . . that's what I meant, a peanut butter sandwich with apricot jelly.

Too Much TV!

Yesterday, we were over at my moms house, visiting with my grandparents (from Phoenix) and the men were watching 'political TV' (aka - BORING!) and the women were playing with the Peter and James. Peter must have snuck downstairs a time or two, just enough time to have see some of the commercials that they were playing.
On our way home, Tim and I struck up a conversation about some random topic, and Tim had used the sentences "that's been an issue" . . .
Peter piped in and said "Just like Issue 3! It's a bad deal for Ohio."

Obviously, we have a political figure in our midst.

Bossy Boy

Peter: James, please be quiet.
James: Blahahallalalhahah
Peter: JAMES - please stop talking!
James: alalalllaaalalaa
Peter: Daddy, James is not being quiet like I asked him to.
Daddy: That's probably because your not his parent.
Peter: (looks at James, really closely) James, PLEEEASE shut it and be quiet, . . . for a long time
(James: aahhhh, ahahah,. . . )
Peter: ZIP IT . . lock it and give me the KEY!
James: Oh-tay. (hands his a 'key')

Good Night, *Humble* Boy!

Peter tonight, saying his 'night-night prayers'. . . .

Dear Jesus . . please forgive me of my sins. That we had fun (Mom: "THANK YOU that we had fun. . .") . . . THANK You that we had fun today. That we played in the leaves. Thank You for the beautiful weather that we have been having. And, thank You that James and I are so very wonderful! Amen

. . . .uuugghh, I think our next 'fruit' that we'll be working on will be HUMBLENESS!

Same Difference

Today, while eating lunch - Peter asked Tim what 'why not?' means?
And, the conversation went something like this. . . .

Peter: What does 'why not' mean, Dad?
Dad: Well, it's kind of like saying 'yes'
Peter: *silent*
Dad: It would be like you asking me something, like if you asked if I was your Dad, and I would say . . . . . um . . . . .

{dramatic pause . . and careful consideration of a GOOD example to give}

Dad:. . .It would be like if you asked me for something to drink, and I would say 'why not' - meaning 'yes'!

Christmas List . . part 1

Peter has recently become VERY excited for Christmas . . mostly due to his Mommy playing Christmas songs all day long, and also partly due to all of the local stores displaying and decorating for Christmas already.

The other day, he decided, on his own, that he really should start writing out his Christmas List out for Santa. Now, when I say 'writing out' - I actually mean 'drawing'. . it has taken us about 2 years to get this kid to draw something! NOT because he couldn't . . but because he never thought it looked good enough. For example - He would draw a face and then cry because it wasn't round enough! Oi . . . . it was interesting. But, FINALLY - he is now interested and loves to draw things, pictures and his own Christmas List.

This kid could SPELL WORDS before he had any interest in drawing! - something is WRONG with this picture!

So, here is ONE list (out of many, I'm sure - to come!):


If you look in the far left corner - what looks like a Bee - it is actually 'Bumble Bee' from Transformers.

Yes, yes . . my child who is afraid of COOLWHIP - saw and loved the Transformers movie.


(now, we didn't let him watch all parts of the movie - but he LOVED it!)

Peter: Today is THURSDAY!
Tim: That's right, Peter! Good job!
Peter: I'm REALLY smart!
Tim: You sure are!
Peter: That's because I've got a BIG brain in there!

Bible Verse Time!

Tim and I think it is very important for the boys to know, learn and memorize Scripture verses by heart. One way of them doing this is through our Church - Peter has been learning the first 5 verses of Psalm 1 in his Children's Church class, and I teach him other verses here at home as well.

This week, we re-learned (really, I re-learned, he knew it still) 1 Samual 12:24
"Only fear the LORD, and serve Him faithfully - for consider what great things He has done for you!"
Thankfully, he has been asking what parts of the verse mean - that he doesn't fully understand. What a great way of learning his own little way!
So, here is a conversation between Pete and I, while going through his memory verse. . . . .

Mom: Let's say 1 Samual 12:24 . . . .
(us): Only fear the LORD, and serve. . . . .
Peter: What does fear mean?
Mom: Fear means that you respect God and really want to do good so that we don't get punished.
Peter: OH!!!
(us): Only fear the LORD, and serve Him faithfully . . .
Peter: What does faithfully mean?
Mom: Faithfully means that you do something all of the time, like obeying the Lord everyday.
Peter: OHHHH!
(us): Only fear the LORD, and serve Him faithfully, for consider what . . . .
Peter: Mom, what does consider mean?
(Now, I'm starting to get a little bugged that he keeps interupting so often, but pleased that he really wants to know!)
Mom: Consider means to think about it a lot . . .
Peter: Oh, wow, Mom! You sure are smart! You know a LOT of things about this!!!
Mom: Thanks, bud!
(us): Only fear the LORD, and serve Him faithfully, for consider what great things He has done for you!
Peter: What does THAT mean?
Mom: Well, some great things he has done for you is He made you super cute, and really smart and He gave you LOTS of toys and things to play with!
Peter: OH! And, like He gave you pants and shirts to wear!
Mom: Yes, Peter. He did allow me to not be nude. (sarcasm)

Favorite Number

Recently, Peter has been using the number '100' A LOT! I don't know if it's because he can count to 100, or because he just really enjoys that number - but he's been using it - almost always - out of context, or improperly.

For Example:

"I'm better at puzzles than James . . . . I'm 100 BETTER!"

"I'm sorry 100, Mom"

"We are going on vacation in 100 weeks"

"I can count to 100!" . . . .oh, wait - that one WAS used in the right context!
. . .it's been very interesting - and a little entertaining - listening to his use of the number '100'!

We got the chance to go to a Fund Raiser for our local Firemen and Policemen. Well, the 'big event' was going to be a helicopter that would land in the middle of a field right next to the fair at the station. Peter and I got FRONT row 'seats' to watch it land . . it was amazing! Peter was in shock and couldn't believe that he saw this massive thing land right in front of his eyes! After it landed, the pilots let the kids sit in the cockpit and get pictures! It was really COOL!

Gym Class

Peter's Gym Class . . he absolutely LOVES his Tumble Bunnies class! He loves his teacher, Miss Tanya and is really getting the wiggle worms out at this class too!

Peter The Wiz

Peter came running up to me one afternoon yelling

"Look, Mommy . . look, a rectangle!!"

I looked down and found that Peter had 'drawn' a perfect rectangle with his Etch-A-Sketch.

Wow! I can't even draw a set of stairs on that thing!!

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Peter was doing his 'school work' (as he likes to call it) in his Kindergarten Workbook, and we were talking about letters. Well, it had been a while since we have gone through letter recognition, so I was treading it slowly. He took off like a bandit! He remembered everything we had learning thus far, and he loves learning - so that makes it easy on me!
One of the pages we were working on, I wanted him to use the color of the word. So, 'RED' would be written with a RED CRAYON, etc. So, he eagerly picked up a red crayon and wrote 'red' in lowercase letters.

I, then, said "Great . . now write 'red' in uppercase letters" Thinking that I would need to help im remember what they looked like, I asked him if he would like help. He refused, insisting that he did it all by himself - and wrote 'RED' in all capitals.

I was impressed!!! So, I thought I'd mix things up a bit and said, "Now write the word in 'small letters'." He did just that . . .

I laughed at how small the letters were and asked Pete why he decided to make them SO small? He said to me, "Oh, you said 'small' letters . . did you mean 'lowercase' letters?"

Whatever, my 4 yr old just outsmarted me - nuts!!

I don't know what we're going to do with this kid . . .

but we sure love this boy!!!!

You want a WHAT? . . .

Peter came up to me, this evening, and asked this question . . . .
"Mommy. . . I want another baby. . . can we have another baby?"







Notice the 'we' in that sentence?







I did what any civilized and mature mother would do,







I told him to go ask Daddy.




. . .that stopped things very quickly.