A lesson in Civics

Cute Alex story coming up :) This evening we were getting ready to go to the store to get Alex a new life jacket as he has passed the 50 pound mark and so needs the next size up. We are picking up our new boat tomorrow and so need to make sure we are ready! That's a whole other post, which I will save for when we have pictures of the aforementioned boat. Anyways, Alex decided he also needed to buy a new lure. First, for those of you who don't know- Alex is an absolute fishing nut and has more lures than probably any 7 year old you'll ever meet. He had gotten some dollar coins from his aunt and uncle for his birthday and spent some on part of his new scooter, but had saved a few of them for fishing lures. So, as we were getting ready, he ran down to his room to get his money. He was looking at the pictures on the coins and said, "Is this a picture of the queen?" Chris looked at it and said, "No, that is the statue of liberty". Alex: "What is liberty?" Me: "It is like freedom, when you get to be free to do what you want and people can't tell you what to do". Alex: (absolute dead serious look on his face) "I can't wait until I can get some of that". So- that is now Alex's new favorite buzzword- liberty. I'm sure he'll be using this anytime we do anything "unjust" to him :)