red pancakes anyone?

David was coming home for lunch break when Dennis asked "Daddy, can you make me pancakes?". David said he didn't know if we had everything we needed to make them and Dennis said "we have lots of eggs and we have that pancake sugar box" and David remembered that he'd bought a box of pancake mix. Dennis said "okay--I want you to make me a red pancake!". David did just that, made a batch of red pancakes, and they enjoyed them for lunch. Dennis wanted so much to help him and dragged over the step stool, right up to the stove! David was a bit exasperated and somewhat worried, so he told Dennis that he would make the pancakes. Dennis said "it's not all about you, Daddy." We stared at him in shock, of course! Luckily he changed the subject quickly and began role-playing. He donned David's work hat and announced that he was Daddy. David and I took turns playing "Dennis". David asked Dennis-As-Daddy to read him four bedtime stories, and Dennis said "if I read you four stories, you'll just want five!". We had a big laugh at his cleverness. When it was my turn to be "Dennis", he held his little hand up to my neck and told me "I think you have a fever, and you need to go to bed" and he led me to the library and gently pushed me down onto the futon and covered me up, told me to have a nice nap. I did take the opportunity to ask him "are we there yet?" a whole bunch of times. And he enjoyed the chance to quote his Daddy's most often said phrases. It was a fun hour!