Recent Charlie conversation

[charliesmum]

Scene: Mommy is upstairs in the computer room, reading LJ and vaguely thinking about getting dressed. Charlie is downstairs playing.

CHARLIE: Mom, I need you

Mommy goes to the top of the stairs and looks down at her son, who is gazing upward with a solomn expression on his face, clearly a child with Something On His Mind.

MOMMY: Yes, honey, what do you need?

CHARLIE: (he pauses a moment, looking down at his feet, seemingly wrestling with a heavy thought of great import.) There are chocolate covered marshmallow bears.*

MOMMY: Yes. Yes, there are chocolate covered marshmallow bears.

CHARLIE: (in a voice tinged with hopefullness) What are they for?



*Sitting on the kitchen counter. They are from my friend, who's co-worker just got back from Norway and brought them for me, as the times my friend has gone to Norway she brought them for me and now I am addicted.

Comments

[october31st.livejournal.com]

Hee! I know he was asking whether he might be allowed to eat them, but I really like the existential implications of that question. Because really, what purpose DO they serve, in the higher scheme of things? Your boy's a budding philosopher ;)

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

That's how I read it initially too. Cutest thing ever.