Shovel

It snowed a few days ago.  When John got home from work he went out to blow the driveway.  As soon as Hunter heard the snowblower fire up he started asking if he could go out and shovel.  He was midway through his homework so I told him he would need to finish it first and warned him that by the time he would be done Daddy would likely be finished out there.  I was trying to avoid drama later but instead I got instant drama.  I tried to distract him by quizzing him with his spelling words, attempting to kill two birds with one stone.  In response to his whining, "But Mooooommmmm...I wanna go out and shovel!" I ignored and tried, "How do you spell "silent?"  He paused a second and came back with "S-H-O-V-E-L!"