What would you do?

Decided to go to the Japanese Gardens in K-town today. Elijah was in a funk, but we pushed onward nonetheless. Nearly there, we realized our outting was going to cancelled by rain. A half hour of driving and parking only to turn around and head back home. Bummer!

However, what would an outting be without good blog material? And a fight by the boys when they both got cranky from finding out the Gardens weren't in the cards did just that.

The boys got in a fight today over our last name. I kid you not. The fight had to do with who had that last name. They fight over whose car that is. They fight over whose drink cup that is. They fight over invisible pieces of fuzz that one boy takes from the other.

So today, they fought over who had our last name.

Isaac: "My name is Isaac John Kit___."
Elijah: "My name is Elijah Loop Kit___."
Isaac: "But I'm Kit___."
Elijah: "No, I'm Kit___."
Isaac: Stayed calm and repeated the fact that Kit___ was his last name.
Elijah: Grew incredibly upset and started sobbing. Kit___ was his last name gosh darn it.
JB: Tried to explain that they both could share that last name. Neither boy found that comforting.

Wendi (that's me) jumped in with a good idea. Ring pops! How 'bout it? A ring pop for each boy. She unwrapped one and gave it to a still-calm-but-enjoying-the-conflict Isaac. He hooked it onto his thumb and began sucking away happily.

Now, time to open the other one. She opened it to discover: no ring pop! It was a bum pop. Empty! No pop on the ring. Actually there was a tiny bit of candy on the ring which she tried to convince Elijah was adequate. He looked at her, looked at the measly little messed up ring pop and started SOBBING! How unfair! Now he was not only upset about sharing his last name, but by luck of the draw, had secured a totally lousy ring pop.

Wendi (still me) didn't know what to do. If I took the pop back from Isaac, he'd be upset. Then I'd have two kids crying. If I took it back from Isaac and gave it to Elijah, well, how fair was that?

I ended up coming up with a great solution. But before I post it, the question is: what would you do? Two toddlers. One ring pop. Two unhappy boys due to our field trip being cancelled.

Suggest away! I'll post what I did under the stars below after I get some comments!

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Thanks for all the good ideas! Unfortunately, a ring pop cannot be halfed. It would break into a bunch of pieces. I ended up busting out a fruit snack. Offered it to Elijah. When Isaac wanted one, I told him he'd have to give up the ring pop for his fruit snack, which he willingly did. They then moved it back and forth and shared it based on what other food I could pop out! Worked out pretty okay. :)