toddler conversations

( I just had to “share” this conversation.  It was one of those moments where I felt the tickle of the laugh starting, and knew from a parenting perspective that all would be lost if I gave in, but couldn’t help laughing so hard it hurt anyways!)

scene:  at dinner eating Trader Joe’s Lasagna (because we just got back from NC at 3 this afternoon)

Mama: scoops up some veggies onto Charlie’s fork and tries to surreptitiously hide them with a noodle on top and says,  “Charlie, please eat this bite.  See?  Yummy noodles!”

Charlie: notices the shenanigans, points to another piece of noodle on his plate with his chubby finger, looks innocently into Mama’s eyes, and says—earnestly-- “How ‘bout dis one?”