Monkey see... (Anna)

Emma eats very little chocolate or candy, so going trick and treating for Halloween and being given a few pieces of chocolate was a huge treat for her.

Tonight, Caroline and I were making dinner and Emma discovered a mini Snickers bar left over from Halloween. She brought it up to us and said "Open, pliz."

We said something like, you know "Nice try, small fry, but you're not having chocolate and even if you were, it wouldn't be just before dinner." And we took it off her. She whined for a moment, reaching up to try to retrieve it from where we had put it.

Then she had a brilliant idea. She declared, "Monkey!" and went and got her monkey Halloween costume. She brought the headpiece to us (yes, the same headpiece she had refused to wear the whole weekend) and asked us to put it on her. Then, she said, "Chocolate??" with a huge hopeful grin.

So we've taught our kid that if she wants chocolate, she has to dress up as a monkey. A rather bizarre lesson to learn, I must say.