How do you win an arguement with a brother that can take his ears off?

Chance got into a friendly argument with his brother this morning over who should be able to shoot Chance's air soft gun.

This sounds like a no-brainer on the surface since the gun is Chance's Christmas present.

The plot thickens however, when you take into consideration that Chance's brother is the one that loaded the 72 pellets into the gun.

But that was after he shot the pellets Chance put in to begin with.

As you can see, it gets complicated.

So Chance's dad and I were holding a sort of informal court in our living room listening to the boys give their side to the story.

It was a friendly banter with Chance and his brother frequently laughing in between pleading their cases.

At one point, when a fact was in dispute,  Chance turned to his brother laughing and gingerly lifted the magnets of his implants off of his head so he could no longer hear.

Chance had already made his point, after all; who needed to hear the opposition?

It was about at this point in our hearing that Chance's dad was explaining that in order to accomplish anything, the boys needed to not just talk but listen to each other.

Chance's brother said tapping Chance and grinning,"Ya Chance, put your ears back on!"

It is a unique opportunity that our kids have to argue with a sibling who can turn their ears off.  This particular  disagreement was all happening in good humor.

I can imagine that if any of my siblings had the ability to basically turn off their ears during a serious dispute, I would have been highly annoyed.

Ahhh the memories our kids will have of disputes with their deaf brother growing up:)