confounded

Little C: Mama? How can this be? There is a button here but nowhere for it to go?

He was trying to button a shirt and had the top one off a notch and the bottom one correct. He spent 4 long minutes redoing the three buttons in between over and over but they never quite matched up. And I let him. It was four minutes of not hearing him ask me to play Monopoly with him. And four minutes of me not saying no and suggesting other games with fewer pieces and fewer rules. One where I won't have to play both sides of the board.