"When you see eggs, yell eggs."

Benjamin was playing by himself yesterday while I cleaned up from dinner. He brought his shopping cart downstairs and put both "old arf arf" and "new arf arf" in it. He then got a piece of paper and said to his stuffed animal dogs "Arf Arf here is the shopping list. You keep it. Remember when we lost this list? Help me remember that we need eggs. When you see eggs, yell eggs." I kicked Stephen in the middle of this to listen. It was verbatim what I tell him when we go to the store. He gets to be the keeper of the list and when I hand him the list he always says to me "Remember when we lost the list?" I still remember when we did. I lost the list at the store about a month ago. I was pretty distraught because it was one of those lists that I had been writing on for a few weeks all the little things I was missing in the house from the move. When I lost it, we retraced our steps multiple times looking for the list. We didn't ever find it, and it took me a few weeks to figure out all the things that were on the original list and get them. Now, I make Benjamin be in charge of the list, and he always reminds me about when it was lost. While he in charge, he is also responsible for looking for the next item and telling me when he finds it. I do always say "we need ____. When you see _____ say ______." I mostly do it to try and keep him occupied during our shopping trips. I think he now feels the need to do the same for his unruly stuffed dogs!