Lexism of the week

Current mood: dumfounded

Earlier this week, the dinner menu in the house was mac & cheese and fruit salad. When I told this to Lexi she started to squirm and to have a whining, eye-rubbing meltdown. I tried to talk to her rationally about what was wrong but there was no getting through to her. I used threats of going to bed with no dinner to no avail. Finally, I gave in and called Daddy at work. He as able to discern through Lexi's tears, moans, and groans that she wanted the mac & cheese but not the fruit salad.

I was confused. Lexi has always loved fruit - especially fruit salad. What was the problem? I asked her this question and her calm, rational response was, "I like the fruit part, I just don't like the salad part."

For the rest of the meal fruit salad was only refered to as fruit...and all the fruit was, in fact, consumed. Picky, picky.