"Shh!"

One evening, Benjamin, his mom Terri, Andrea, Sonja and I were sitting around in Terri's den talking. At some point in the conversation we started talking about Benjamin's younger brother Cort.

"I taught him everything he knows!" Benjamin said proudly.

"I don't know about that..." Terri said.

"Shh! 'Course I did." Benjamin replied.

There was a pause in the conversation and then...

"Don't 'Shh!' me!" Benjamin said adimitly.

I wasn't looking his way when he said it but there was a moment of which I thought to myself, Did I hear that wrong? It sounds like he just told himself not to "Shh!" himself.

I turned, along with everyone else, to stare at him in disbelief.

"I didn't 'shoosh' you! You just 'shooshed' yourself!" his mother responded.