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Our son is a genius. That's pretty much the only way to sum it up. But it's in a Rain Man sort of way. He can't show work on his math homework because it's all in his head. When he plays a strategic board game, he just stares at the board for a few minutes before making a move because he goes from the end to the beginning, calculating every move before he makes it. It bites playing board games with him, because he either a) wins by a large margin and rubs it in, or b) by some miracle you win and he cries.

But more than that, it's his organizational skills that crack us up. Someday, his wife will either be really annoyed, or really lucky to have him. ;)

• Baseball cards: He sorts them first by alphabetical location/team name "Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles..." Then, by team name only "Astros, Braves..." Then, by players' first name, then players' last name. Then, by batting average, low to high, then high to low. Then by strikeouts, low to high, high to low. Then by geographical region, west to east or east to west. This child can organize baseball cards for hours.
• Team affiliation in his room. Each day, he counts how many KU or KSU things he has in his room. Then he'll hide one or two and you have to figure out what's missing. Sigh.
• He has a tackle box type thing...and organizes his legos from smallest to largest piece in it.
• His books are alphabetical by title in his bookshelf. Occasionally, just to spice things up, he alpha by authors first or last name, depending on his mood.
• Cereal: he organizes the cereal boxes in the cabinet first by name "Apple Cinnamon Cheerios, Apple Jacks, Cheerios, Life..." then by calories, low to high (for his momma), then he'll get a hair to organize them by grams of protein or fat, low to high.
• And the newest one...Christmas presents. They are organized from smallest to largest one day, then by person's name, then by who they are from.

Ok, ok, he's a little me. And he has a little touch of OCD. But he's a boy after my own heart. I mean, who else's kid organizes their momma's pantry by calorie count?! How cool is he?!