Waiting for the Icecream Man

Who knows why kids get fixated on certain ideas, but sometimes once they get an idea it's hard for them to let it go. Matt has been fixated on getting ice cream from the ice cream man for a couple of days now. I have tried to explain that the ice cream man won't be coming until it gets hot outside, but such logic is dismissed. This evening he announced that he would sit outside on a rock and wait with his $.82 for the ice cream truck to drive by. He never came, but the kids had fun jumping off the rocks and playing hopscotch anyway.