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A Peek into Peter's World

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Peter's latest game involves a restaurant in our playroom/patio. His customers are stuffed animals, and he even has arranged two tables - one for the bigger animals and one for the smaller animals, and two kitchens - one for the big chef, and one for the little chefs and the dishwashers. table for the little animals table for the big animals big chef in his kitchen Little chefs and the dishwashers

A True Story about a Boy and His Monkey

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I was putting Peter to bed a few days ago, and he was sad because he wanted his monkey to sleep with. "You have a pillow monkey", I told him... But he didn't want that one. "How about this one, from Christmas last year?" But he didn't want that one either.   "The one I want is smaller," he told me helpfully.     "Well, how about this one? Or this one?   Or this one? Or this?" "No, no, no, the one I want is brown!" "Like this one? Or this one?" "No! None of those are the one I want!" "That's all the monkeys I can find!                    Does it have to be a monkey?                                    Could you sleep with Elmo? Or his good frie...

Peter's Imaginative Birthday Party

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This morning Peter came to me with his hands full of his stuffed animals (his four favorites) and told me that it was their birthday! "Penguino is 4, Little Blue Bunny is 3. Monkey is 2 and Chippy the Chipmunk is 1." He proceeded to have a birthday party for them, wrapping presents in things he found around the house, and then he made me take pictures of the birthday boys with their gifts. Then he brought me a piece of paper to write about the party. First I had to list the animals having the birthday(Chippy the Chipmunk, Little Blue Bunny, Monkey Down and Penguino), then list the presents they received (ball, checker, bear) and what the presents were wrapped in (blanket, boots). When we left to do some grocery shopping he insisted on bringing all four animals along, and stuffing them all into cupholders for their car seats. He was disappointed when I wouldn't let him take them into the store, and so he sat them all on my drivers seat to wait while we were in the stor...