Monday, August 30, 2010

Asher-ism: Asher Wants a Marshmallow

My Asher is a manipulator.

No. Re-phrase.

My Asher is a Master Manipulator.

He has a serious talent of finding what people think is cute, funny, acceptable, and exploiting them with it. Yesterday:

Asher: My am hungry. Are you hungry?

(Sidenote: I remember doing this exact same thing with my mom when I was a teenager. "Mmm, Arby's sounds good. Doesn't Arby's sound good, Mom?" I figured out pretty quickly that if I got her craving something I would get it.)

Me: Hmm, I'm a little hungry. What do you want to eat?

Asher: Hmm... I don't know... maybe something like a snack. (he is very opinionated about what constitutes a "snack" and what constitutes a "meal")

Me: What kind of snack?

Asher: My think we don't have any mac 'n' cheese. So... maybe something white... like a marshmallow! (insert pointed finger and sneaky/victorious smile here)

I gave him a marshmallow and took the story to Steve. I thought it was so cute how he knew he wanted a marshmallow but was so smooth about getting one. Asher heard me telling Steve the story and got a supercute smirk on his face.

Today, I heard something familiar:

Asher: My am hungry. Are you hungry Mom?

Me: [Smile.] Not very hungry. What did you have in mind?

Asher: Hmm... [finger on chin, thinking] Maybe something flour-y and white and circle-y.

Me: Oh! Flour-y. White. Circle-y.

Asher: I know!!! How about a marshmallow?? [see picture of Asher's "I know!" face below]

1 comment:

natterbee said...

So dang cute! And even cuter that I can hear his voice inside my head saying it. He's hilarious now, but he's going to be dangerous some day!