As we prepared for breakfast, Max asked if I would put butter on his pancakes.  As I replied yes, Philip said, “Oh!  Butter! Butter is a good name!”

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Digging in my purse, Philip found a pack of  crayons from a restaurant.  He clarified that they were in fact crayons not gum as he originally thought. “Because gum doesn’t come in Buffalo Wing flavor, right Mom???”

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He tried (and liked!) his first artichoke over the weekend.  Halfway through it he says, “Hey! These kinda taste like a motel!”

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He mastered a tricky puzzle this morning and he ran to show me his work. “And now, if I had four hands?  I could ride my bike and do the Kanoodle!  And if I had five? Or six?”  He shrugged. “Who knows, right?”