Loopholes

As an almost-3-year-old, Liam is doing his darndest to test the limits. We're finding that he's great at finding the loopholes in our rules. A few examples....

One of our rules is that drinks need to stay in the kitchen. Of course, Liam will walk right up to the edge of the tile with his toes just barely hanging over the threshold. He then looks over his shoulder at us with a sly grin and says, "I'm still in the kitchen!"

The other night at dinner, Liam's table manners were particularly atrocious. At one point I looked over at him and he had plopped a roasted potato in his milk. We reminded him that food stays on the plate or in his mouth, not in his milk. To remedy the situation, he proceeded to stick his whole hand in his cup, slopping the milk on the table, to fish out the potato. We then asked him to not put food in his milk. A few minutes later, I saw him put another potato in his cup. Here's the conversation that followed...

me: "Liam, did you just put another potato in your milk?!"
L: "no"
me: "I just saw you Liam!"
L: Peering into his cup and then turning it toward me. "No, no milk, I drank it all!"

So, technically, he's right, we told him not to put the potato in his milk, we did not specify the cup. As one of my coworkers said, we may have a lawyer in the making.