Fooling Frankie

If you haven't figured it out by now, pancakes are a big deal in our house. We've eaten them every Sunday for years, so we were happy to have kids that like eating them as much as we do. Phoebe didn't start getting syrup until she was a little older and we'd like to keep it from Frankie as long as we can. But, he sees everybody else getting it and asks for it because he doesn't want to feel left out. Rather than give him syrup, the Lady of the House one day just faked it and - believe it or not - he actually fell for it. This has been going on now for almost a year. I'm not sure how much longer we can keep it up before he either catches on or we begin to feel guilty.