Elliot and I bought a new Spiderman T-Shirt at Target the other day. He was so proud to wear it this morning that he would not allow me to put a sweater over it. He wanted to show all of his friends at school first, especially Eitan.

We went to school. At the door, I asked to speak to Miss Mirel or Miss Menucha, his teachers. Mirel came to the door. I explained the situation and handed her the sweater. “I’ll put it on him after his friends see his Spiderman t-shirt.”

When I picked him up in the afternoon, he was not wearing the sweater. Fortunately, it was balmy December afternoon in the low 60s, and he had been indoors.