I just noticed J walking around with a bottle of hand sanitizer I had gotten at Target. When I had gotten the bottle a few weeks ago, I discovered it was defective. No matter how hard I had tried, I couldn’t get the pump to work. I even asked Tom to fix it, and he couldn’t. (Shocking! He’s an engineer…he fixes everything!) I finally resorted to unscrewing the pump and pouring the sanitizer into a smaller bottle that I keep in my purse.

“Can I have some sanitizer, Mommy?” J asked.

“Well, unless you’re smarter than Mommy AND Daddy, you probably won’t be able to get any out. But you can try.” I kept working on dinner.

She was quiet for a minute and then came around the corner, rubbing her hands together. “I have sanitizer on my hands!” she proclaimed.

I smiled to myself, assuming that she was pretending she had gotten the sanitizer out. But I went to check, and sure enough, her hands were wet. I checked the bottle. The pump worked! I pumped some out on my own hands to test it.

I guess maybe she IS smarter than Mommy and Daddy?!

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