M&A went to a party at 7 tonight and Daddy was at a fundraiser, so I took N to BBM for some ice cream after he had dinner. He picked Mango Sorbet, which I thought was adorable. 

He did give me some 'tude tonight. He was poking me on the way home, which I asked him not to do but which he kept doing, and he insisted on not holding my hand while climbing on rocks and on people's brick walls along their sidewalks. When we got home, he wanted to play a game he got for his birthday, but balked when I told him he had to take a bath first. I explained that I still needed to make dinner for me, and that I wanted to do it while we played, after the bath. He gave me a fight and when I said we had to do it on my schedule, he said "We always do things on your schedule. I want to do it on mine." (!!) I then confirmed that he knows what a schedule is ("it's when you make plans"). That boy is 13 going on 5. 

Here he is at BBM: