082/366: Stickers!

I try not to have this be the cute-kid-photo-of-the-day, but really, how could I not use this shot:

SteelyKid and The Pip discussing the finer points of Lego superhero stickers. SteelyKid and The Pip discussing the finer points of Lego superhero stickers.

The Pip was not a huge fan of the antibiotics that came with his strep-throat diagnosis, so we bought a sticker book as a bribe reward for taking his medicine. Yesterday afternoon, in one of the brief quiet periods of a busy day, SteelyKid sat down with him and they had an intense conversation about the identities and powers of the various heroes and villains represented in the sticker pages.

Which is too cute not to share, so there you go.

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