manners maketh the man

mom and dad have been consciously modelling good manners recently by always saying 'please' and 'thank you' at appropriate moments.

i've discovered using these words leads to much praise and a few giggles from mom, which has to be a good thing. i think that might have been because i wasn't using them quite right. for example, what i now know to be a 'chocit cookie' i thought for a long while was called a 'thank you', which is what mom always said when she put it into my hand. understandably therefore i'd point to the place where they're kept and ask for a 'thank you, please'.

now i know better, i can ask for a cookie very nicely, and i always say 'thank you joel' when someone gives me something. i can't quite understand why this still makes mom laugh.