At breakfast on Friday, Ace began talking to Zoe. Now, mind you, I was in the room and heard the whole conversation.

Seriously, he turns to Zoe.

Ace: Zoe, sometimes at night, when Daddy is not in the room and Josiah’s awake, we whisper to each other.

Zoe: Okay.

Me: That’s fine, Ace. You can play as long as you stay in bed and are quiet.

Ace: Yes ma’am. And Zoe, sometimes at night, when Daddy is not in the room and Josiah’s asleep, I open his eyes and play with his eyeballs.

Me (stifling a laugh): Okay, maybe we shouldn’t do that because that would wake Josiah up or you could hurt him. How ’bout you just whisper to Liam instead?