Lately Moses has been going through an argumentative phase. For example, today we were reading the story about Joshua and the Battle of Jericho in the boys' children's Bible. Moses pointed to an illustration of the king of Jericho and said, "That's Caiaphas." I corrected him and said, "No, Caiaphas was the high priest in the days of Jesus. That's the king of Jericho," but Moses stubbornly insisted, "No! That's Caiaphas!" And so we argued back and forth until I finally gave up. Whatever.
For the past couple days, Moses had been carrying around a toy tiger and calling it a "lion". I repeatedly told him, "Moses, that's not a lion. That's a tiger," to which he always retorted, "No! It a lion!" Then, when we were checking out at Trader Joe's today, the cashier asked him, "What kind of animal do you have there?" Moses paused, carefully averted his eyes away from me, and told the cashier that it was a tiger. So, just when I was beginning to wonder if he honestly believed the misconceptions he has been so fond of arguing in favor of, he showed me that he really just likes to give his mommy a hard time.
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