mints

our boys have been trading, fighting over, sharing and just generally consuming mints lately. there are two types of mint-box, according to E's formulation: there is the regular mint-box, which contains regular mints (tic tacs etc.), and there is the smell-mint box, which is an empty mint-box which must be retained solely for the purpose of smelling that fresh-mint smell. it can occasionally have one or maybe two mints re-placed into it in order to revive the smell. evan will share his regular mints with only a little resistance (and sometimes none), but the smell-mint box is off-limits for his brother.