A typical afternoon

It all began with Jacob getting out his leap pad to read a story. Gavin toddled over, swiped the leap pad, and swirled the reading pen around in circles.

M: "Jacob, if you don't want Gavin to bother you, just bring your leap pad to the table." (It's really tall so Gavin can't reach :)
J: "Mommy, he's going to wrap it!!" (Which he had great reason to say, since Gavin did tear a page out of his leap pad book yesterday)
M: "I will watch Gavin closely to make sure he doesn't rip it."
J: "He's going to rip it like a present Mommy!"

It wasn't long before Jacob decided to play with a shape puzzle, knowing full well that Gavin would want that toy next.

J: "That's a rectangle. That's a diamond. Is that a exagon Mommy?" (Being a first grade teacher, I teach him some crazy shape names...)

Just as he planned, Gavin heads over to the shape puzzle and Jacob runs to retrieve the leap pad. This time, he carries it promptly to the table.

J: "Gavin wants to play outside mommy."
J: After investigating his leap pad... "He ripped it! Do you not member?!"
J: Tries to turn it on... "This needs new batteries! Mommy, you have to go to the store. You need to buy circle batteries."

He runs to the battery drawer and pulls out every package of battery he can find. Unfortunately, we had everything but the double A's that he needed. I tried to explain to him (as he showed me each one) that it was either too big or too little.

Since it was naptime, I convinced him to head upstairs to bed by saying...

M: "Would you like to help Mommy clean up or would you like to rest upstairs?"
J: "I'll be upstairs Mommy!"

Shortly afterward, I hear him yelling for me in an extremely upset voice. After going up to check on him, he sniffled a few times, took a deep breath, and said, "Mommy I want to say a prayer with you." Awww...