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liam has discovered pockets. and let me just tell you, he loves him some pockets. if there are no pockets in his pants, he makes sure he wears a jacket with pockets. i'm careful these days to buy him only shorts or slacks that have at least two side pockets. i'm awarded bonus points if they have back pockets as well. i finally inquired this afternoon about the contents of said pockets. he had just returned home from a trip to the museum of natural history with my dad, and he had his hands stuffed into his jeans, looking just like a man who might be fiddling with loose change. i was curious as to what he might have picked up along the way. "whatcha got in those pockets, liam?" he looked at me as if i had just asked the most inane question he had ever heard, laughed, and then replied, "my hands."