chuck-e-cheese & stealing

yesterday, i hosted a tupperware party.  daddy decided he was going to take john out after dinner so that mommy could hang out with the ladies.  early in the morning daddy told john that if he was good they could do something special.  i suggested to john that maybe they could go to the movies.  john immediately said "i know.  we can go to chuck-e-cheese."  and then all day long that's all we heard about.  "mommy, have you ever been to chuck-e-cheese?  it's really cool!"  "daddy, we should go to chuck-e-cheese.  they have lots of games."  "basically, it's awesome."  all day long.  it started around 10 am and he didn't stop.  and then after dinner, he kept asking daddy when they were leaving to go to chuck-e-cheese.  don't worry.  daddy did end up taking him to chuck-e-cheese and john had a great time. 

this afternoon john was not listening, and we punished him by taking away his leapster.  daddy took it and kept the leapster next to him on the chair.  john then pouted and started mumbling under his breath about how he wanted to play his game and that it wasn't fair.  finally he got up and said "daddy, i want to talk to you about something."  his face was real serious and he was talking very softly.  "daddy, it's not nice to steal.  you just stealed my game.  that means you steal stuff.  you steal all the stuff that i have!"  it took a lot for daddy and i not to laugh at him.  we listened to his story and then daddy told him that he didn't steal the game, and that if john was a better listener he would get the game back.