The boys and I had a great time at my parents’ house this past weekend. I just love getting my boys together with their cousins. Levi was thrilled to have his “best friend” Jonah to play with.  Jude and Ivan are only 2 months apart so they could practically be twins. They are best buddies, but, as two alpha males, they can really battle. 95% of the time they are best friends, but if one accidentally leans against the other (and it is interpreted as a shove), it’s on. As my mom put it, “Jude’s fists really fly.” So strange to hear that since Jude never fist fights with anyone but apparently Ivan. There was only one battle on my watch and it was over in no time — Jude pretended to paint Ivan with a paint brush and said that his forehead was orange and got too close to Ivan with the paint brush so Ivan whacked him in the eye with a wooden spoon — game over. Jude carried on for 20 minutes screaming about his injury and lecturing Ivan who looked his his little heart was broken. In the end, although Jude had a big welt on his eye, I was more sad for Ivan, who wanted to do anything to get his best buddy to be his best buddy again. All in all, it was a successful 4 days together since Jude said he wanted to spend more consecutive days like that with Ivan and Ivan said he wanted Jude to live next door to him. So sweet!