Child #3, who is just 2 weeks and 1 day from turning 9, has a very big day today: it's the 3rd grade field trip to not one but TWO exciting places: the UVU Theater, where he'll watch part of a very nice play, AND the Living Aquarium, where he'd get to, ya know, watch fish swim around in unusually enclosed yet oddly see-through spaces.
As he was heading out the door this morning, I did my motherly duty to hand him his sack lunch (complete with jell-o and a double-decker-fluffer-nutter sandwich, might I proudly add) and then reminded him to be on his best behavior and use his very best manners.
I thought for a very, VERY brief second before I enthusiastically corrected myself. "No. Be on unusually GREAT behavior and use even BETTER than your best manners."
Yup. I know him.
He looked up at me, grinned his goofy grin and before running to get on his bike, slyly said, "Do I have to say excuse me if I burp at a fish!?!?"
[Sigh]
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