Milk

We have a new rule at the dinner table that if you're not drinking your milk, you have to keep your cup at the top of your dinner plate. Almost every night one or the other of the kids splills their milk because they've set it on the table next to their plate, and knock it over while eating their food.

Last night as we were eating dinner, I noticed that Parker's cup wasn't quite all the way at the top of his plate, it was just a bit over to the left. So I pushed it to where it belonged, at the very top of his round, blue plate.

Parker immediately moved it back to where he'd had it before, and said, "I don't want it at 60, daddy, I want it at 55."

So the new rule, with Parker's blessing, is: keep your milk between 55 & 5.