I took Jane Bradley to the store a couple of days ago, and she asked for a sucker on the way. Of course, I immediately opted for bribery – a sucker in exchange for good behavior inside the store. Well we get to the checkout and cannot find any suckers, so we look on every other checkout shelf in Kroger and come up empty still. So I decide against my better judgement to head to the candy bag aisle, where the only suckers to be found in the store was an entire bag of dum-dums. We get in the car, Jane Bradley super excited about her total score of the bag of suckers and:
Jane Bradley: This one is for me. This one is for you. I’m going to save this one for daddy because he likes blue. This one is for Raffi, but he can’t have it.
Me: No, Raffi better not eat any suckers. They might make him sick.
Jane Bradley: Yeah, he’s too little. He can’t have suckers. But when he grows up and gets his talking mouth, then he can have it.
Me: Okay, we’ll wait till he gets his talking mouth before we give him any suckers. (I am laughing to myself that she currently believes that the animals that don’t talk just haven’t gotten their talking mouths yet. Just like babies. And I decide not to tell her… 
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Oh, one more. Today:
Me: Jane Bradley, if you aren’t going to eat any more than this of your banana, then I’m not going to give you whole bananas anymore. I will give you cut bananas from now on.
Jane Bradley: Mom, I don’t like that banana anymore. It’s too yellow-y.
hmmm. What do you say to that?
