We have that book at left there, it’s called Excuse Me! A Little Book of Manners. It’s a cute little book of a handful of pages and each left page presents a scenario and the right page is a lift-up flap with a photo and it says, “What do you say?” You lift the flap and there’s the proper response to the scenario, right?

Well the other night Elijah brought me the book to read to him which is funny in itself because he never does that. So we sat to read it and the first scenario (which you can see pictured if you click the book then click it again at amazon to read inside and click on excerpt) says:

Mommy says, “Do you want peas for breakfast?”

What do you say?

So I read it for him and asked him “what do you say?” He paused for a second, thinking about what to say then finally said, “PLEASE!!”

That’s my kid for you, outside the box!

Of course, I had to shatter his tiny little ego and let him know that not everyone likes peas as much as he does because when you lift the flap, the little girl is clearly disgusted with them and she says, “No thank you!”

:-P