backseat conversation

Luke is in school with his best friend, Sophia, and because we live very close to Sophia's family, I drive both kids to school on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We've developed a nice morning routine: Sophia usually arrives at our house while Luke is having breakfast, her usual 3-year old antics distract Luke from any last-minute anxiety about going to school, and before walking out the door we go through our checklist to make sure we're prepared. (Mama: "Lunches?" Luke and Sophia: "Check!" Mama: Jackets?" Luke and Sophia: "Check!") Lately, the conversation from the backseat, during our drive to school, has been particularly entertaining:

Sophia: I wanna sit in Luke's seat!
Luke: I wanna sit in Sophia's seat!
Mama: [Removes the hanging monkey above Luke's car seat, because Sophia likes to grab it 1000x in a row, with requisite monkey squeaking and jingling, and this drives Mama coco loco--Spanish for crazy head]
Kids are now all strapped in, and we're driving to school ...
Sophia: What happened to the monkey? Where's the monkey?
Luke: Mama took it down. There it is! See, Sophia!
Sophia: What happened to the monkey?
Luke: Mama took it down. It was making Mama coco loco.
Sophia: Whhhhhhyyyyyy?
Luke: Because you were playing with it!

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PS: Thanks to Grammy, Sesa and Megan for the emails to Luke! So far, we read them, but I can't interest him in responding. He seems to think email is a one-way communication. He loves the e-cards and asks to see the Halloween Snoopy card that Sesa sent nearly every day.