Conversation at our table over dinner, Tuesday, March 24, 2009:
Mia: I want some letters*!
Mommy: You have to eat some chicken first.
Mia: I want some letters!
Mommy: You can have some letters as soon as you eat some of your chicken.
Mia: I want some letters!
Mommy: Okay, eat ONE bite of chicken and you can have some letters.
Mia: (with a very serious face and creased brow) I will get in trouble if I eat chicken, Mommy.
Sigh. I think Mommy is in trouble.
*Trader Joe’s Cinnamon Schoolhouse Cookies
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who knew d would be a pushover?!? I never saw it coming š
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