The Tale of Two Beans

Setting: Eat-in Kitchen.

Mommy is tired but it's time to make dinner. Wanting to make something she knows everyone will like, she decides to make mac and cheese. Wanting to make something remotely healthy, she ditches the bright orange stuff in the blue box and makes mac and cheese from scratch. She calls the boys to dinner and proudly puts her creation in front of them.

Mommy: Dig in, everybody!
Daddy: Hey, this is good!
Liam: (scrunching up nose) D'ike it
translation- I don't like it
Mommy: But you love mac and cheese!
Liam: D'ike it
Mommy: Just a few bites.
Liam: (insistently) D'IKE IT!!
Mommy: Well fine then, what would you like?
Liam: Green beans
Mommy: Green beans? Thinking to herself, "He wants to swap mac and cheese for green beans? Now that's a nutritional win!"
Liam: Yeah! Green beans!
Mommy: Okay! I will gladly make you some green beans!
Liam: (clapping) Green beans!!

Mommy pulls out some frozen green beans and heats up a little plate of them for Liam. She gives him the plate, trying to conceal her grin. "I really got away with this one," she thinks. Liam eats a bean.

Liam: No, no. Green beans.
Mommy: Right. These are green beans.
Liam: No! Green beans!
Mommy: But these are green beans!
Liam: (pointing to the top of the refrigerator) NO! GREEN BEANS!

Mommy is stumped. She picks Liam up and asks him to show her the "green beans." Liam points to a bag on top of the refrigerator where Mommy keeps little treats. A wave of realization rushes over her.

JELLY beans.

Doh!!