THE PETERSENS

Tonight…

Daddy: Joshua Lee, what is 7+5?

JL: Daddy, it’s 12!

Daddy: True dat.

JL: Daddy, you said that backwards.  It’s “That’s true”!

Another time tonight…

JL: What is that?

Mommy: It’s a bag of chocolate.

JL: (long pause as he looks at the picture on the front of the bag) Mommy, my mouth starts to water when I look at the picture of the chocolate.

Mommy (laughing): Me, too, bud.  Me, too.

Oh, the things that my 5-year-old says.  I love him so much!

My sweet friend, Autumn, and I went strawberry pickin’ today with the kiddos.  We did the same last year, but Elena wasn’t here yet and Caleb was still itty-bitty.  So, it felt pretty different this year, but a good different.  That was not the only thing that was different though…THIS YEAR, there was a “special” visitor at the strawberry farm.  THIS YEAR, there was a TURKEY.  Yes, a turkey.  An honest-to-goodness, real, live, gobblin’, trottin’ turkey.  Oh my.  And, you know what????  It followed us.  It stalked us.  It scared us.  People, my dear children were frightened out of their little MINDS.  Poor things.  I think JL will be okay (we have actually laughed quite a lot about the turkey since this morning), but little Caleb was pretty traumatized.

So, I am thinking that this particular memory goes in that category of “so-extremely-scary-at-the-time-but-so-completely-hilarious-later”.  What do you think, Autumn?  Well, besides a few shed tears and some elevated heart rates this morning, my birthday has been off to a great start so far!  Thank you, dear friend.  I love you!  Can’t wait to continue our tradition of strawberry pickin’ next year…just maybe at different, turkey-free farm.

What we do over Ben’s lunch break at work…