Gallant was only three, and owned only a few dollars in his "treasure box" (a plastic tool box).
We were at Costco. I knew he loved hot cocoa. It was November and the boxes of powdered hot cocoa mix were once again on sale.
I asked him if he wanted to spend $4 on hot cocoa. He thought for a long time. That was almost all his money! But he did love hot cocoa.
He said yes, so I lifted a box onto his lap.
Only then did he realize this was not a single serving, but fifty cups of hot cocoa!
He tilted his head back and instinctively cackled loudly like a mad scientist "Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" and even did the gesture of lifting his hands claw-like to the heavens.
