Last night Alex discovered some leftover Easter candy in the pantry. He asked me if he could have it, and since I knew it was the not-so-great stuff, I said, “Sure – you can have it!” knowing full well that he wouldn’t finish even one piece of it.
First he opened some Smarties. After about two bites, he looked at me, grinned, and said, “Here, Mama. You can have them.” Lucky me, huh?
Then he found some jelly beans, sniffed them, and said, “Yucky, Mama!”
After a couple of more minutes, way down deep in the bag, he discovered a lone bite-size Milky Way. He held it up to my face and said, “What’s that, Mama?” And when I said, “It’s a candy bar,” he said, “OH, IT’S SO EXCITING! I’M SO EXCITED, MAMA!”
I unwrapped it, and for a full five minutes he sat quietly, nibbling on his little nougat treasure. Then he rummaged through the bag again, came up with a Starburst, and brought it to me.
“Alex,” I warned him, “you’re not going to like this. It’s fruity. You don’t like fruity candy.”
“No, I’ll try it, Mama”- so I unwrapped it for him.
His teeth had barely hit the little lemon square when he scrunched up his nose, smiled, and said, “YUCKY!”
I took the Starburst away from him and said, “I told you, buddy – you don’t really like fruit candy.”
And he looked at me very seriously, tilted that sweet head, and said, “Yeah. Yes ma’am. I like chocolate. In my mouth.”
I do, too, little man. I do, too.
Love the story…and chocolate too!
Me, too, A.! Me, too! More, please?
“I like chocolate. In my mouth.”
Cute! :)
The kid knows what he is talking about. Fruity candy is a scandalous waste of perfectly good sugar.
Chocolate. Every time.
LOL! How cute!!!!
I just found your blog…if you stop by mine anytime soon…you’ll see my kids in the adventure of planting their very first vegetable garden!!! LOL
Hope that you can find the time to come by my blog site and please post a comment when you do…I like for those who visit my site to let me know they’ve been there :) (you will need to 1. register (FREE), on the right side of my site before you post…this is just to make your visits more personalized, etc. and then 2. click “Leave Your Comments” back at the regular part of my site on any comments that interests you, and then 3. “Post Reply” once the comments page comes up and type your comment).
I’ll try to visit your site regularly and hope that you visit mine as well! :) God Bless! :)
A male who loves chocolate – that should go far in the “win a bride” race someday. And I love that at his age he says “Yes Mam”.
Smart kid. Funny mom. A winning combination – with chocolate, of course!
Little Dude is right. That Starburst stuff is YUCKY!!!
Funny story!
LOL! You’re raisin’ that boy right! ;-)
PS No pressure but I’m counting on you (and I know you wont fail) to let me know who you think is gonna win AI tonight. I’m always amazed at your take on it, right on.
So cute!! I love starburst – my little guy does too – but chocolate is his FAV!!
So would you mind if I tagged you? It is totally no pressure – so if you don’t want to play no worries!!
It is somthing new i dreamed up called Tackle It Tuesday and you can check it out on my blog. (if it is wednesday by the time you visit, just scroll down to find it.)
Hope you want to play…
and I’ll be back later to check your AI post…
Oh my goodness!! I could just eat him and a big bag of chocolates!!!!!!!
Hey Janice – I will definitely do that…but it may end up being Tackle It Tuesday on a Thursday. :-) Great idea, though…and good incentive for me. My parents are coming into town Thurs., so I should have SEVERAL projects from whence to choose. :-)
Can’t wait to meet this Alex boy?? I think we are going to hit it off real well!