A recent conversation with the boys
Grady: When girls get older, they get a baby in their tummy at their birthday. And then another and another at each birthday. Just like a baby dinosaur is in his mama's tummy sleeping in his egg.
Peter: But dinosaurs didn't have names because there weren't any people around to buy them as pets.
I didn't even know where to start with that so I left it at "having a baby in a mama's tummy has nothing to do with birthdays".
The boys were building with blocks and Peter took a lot of time making his building just right. It would fall down and he'd start again. When he finished, he said "see, it's a horse. here's his head and here's his tail". He's been thinking about chess non-stop so anything he builds or makes lately is somehow tied to a chess set.
I had a spare toilet paper tube today so I showed Grady how to make a kazoo. He was thrilled to play with it for a few minutes and then he decided it needed to be covered in duct tape. He used a bunch of pieces of duct tape and then mostly started throwing it like a football. When Peter got home from school, he needed to make his own kazoo to try and then cover his with duct tape too. They spent the rest of the evening throwing their toilet paper tubes across the room. Peter tried all different throws and was thrilled with the different ways his tube would fly.
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