Me: “What do you want for your birthday?”
Brendan: “A dog.”
Me: “Other than a dog, what do you want?”
Brendan: “A puppy.”
Me: “Other than a puppy, what do you want?”
Brendan: “I want Catherine to get a dog and it to have puppies, so that we all have a dog.”

Guess what our little boy is not getting for his birthday.