Individually, my boys are really good on car rides, but together…well, let’s just say there’s a reason their booster seats are as far away from one another as possible. Today we had errands to run in Regina and as we sat in the car at our first stop, they started.

Zackary mentioned something he saw outside. Benjamin yelled, “No!” at him; his current reaction when somebody is talking and he decides he wants to say something instead. I told Benjamin that if he wanted to speak, he had to wait until others were done speaking first.

That’s when it all went wrong. Zackary finished his comment about the crane across the street. He said something pleasant to his brother. And Benjamin sulkily replied with his toddler lisp, “Whatevah.” [Read more...]