Attention, please

Matthew surprised me today. He was paying attention to the speaker in sacrament meeting.

I couldn't tell he was listening; he was coloring away in his notebook. But when the speaker rhetorically asked, "How can we help our wives and mothers?" Mathew piped up: "I can do dishes to help Mommy."

I have mixed feelings about that, actually. I like doing the dishes. It's a very well-defined task, unlike some others ("clean the kitchen").

Maybe we can teach Matthew to clean the kitchen.