Just had a conversation with the boy, he was explaining to me that his baby sister’s LED holiday necklace bullshit trinket wasn’t working (they have matching ones…because…).

I asked him if he wanted to give his to her, since his worked, his answer was a quick nope! So, I turned my dad brain on and asked him which was more important to him, that he was happy or that his sister was happy (I’ll explain my theory on this in a later episode of THE Most Awesomest Dad Ever!) and, as expected, he knew that this was part of his job to protect his sister so he said hers was.

The boy then took his to her and, without telling her that he switched them, gave it to her. He didn’t sulk, he just accepted that was what needed to be done.

But here is where the story gets good (to me, mainly because they both used to live in my balls), she came to my office a few minutes later to ask me if I knew what her favorite holiday was. Because I’m not clairvoyant and she is a 6yr old, of course I didn’t know. Her response was that it is the 4th of July because her brother’s birthday is the next day (I couldn’t make this up if I tried, well maybe if I tried hard, but I digress). The little crumb snatchers made my day that easily.

Wait…there’s more…Thing 2 somehow fixed the problem on Thing 1’s goofy ass necklace so now both of them work, and they’re off to school happy not knowing what amazing things they expressed on this random Tuesday morning.