“Momma! I want more grape-uh-nuts!”
“How do you ask nicely?”
“Momma…may I have more grape-uh-nuts, please?”
“Yes, you may!”
More grape-nuts are put in her bowl, and a little bit of milk is added.
Claire eats them, and in the process, some get stuck to the sides of the bowl.
“Momma! I need more grape-uh-nuts!”
“You still have some in your bowl. Eat those first, and then you can have more.”
“NOOooooooooooooooooo! They’re ALL GONE.”
“No, actually. They are on the sides of your bowl…” Momma takes the spoon and starts pushing the grape-nuts to the center of the bowl. “See? Grape-nuts.”
“NOOOOoooooo! Those are NOT grape-uh-nuts! Those are NOTHING!”
(We’ve been playing with the concepts of something and nothing for a while now…and for some reason Claire is very dramatic when she uses the word ‘nothing.’)
“Nothing? Well, there’s an awful lot of them for them to be nothing. I think they’re not nothing. I think they’re grape-nuts.”
“They’re NOT grape-uh-nuts. They’re NOT nothing! They’re Nothing-Nuts!”
“Nothing-Nuts!? That’s a new one. I bet Nothing-Nuts taste like grape-nuts…”
(Momma is trying really hard not to laugh at the concept of Nothing-Nuts…and somehow manages to get Claire to eat them.)
“Mmmmm…Nothing-Nuts DO taste like grape-uh-nuts!”
Crisis averted…for now…until the next time…because, this isn’t a new issue…like most toddlers, she thinks some things are “gone” when they are no longer in a big group in the middle of her plate (or bowl). Time will tell if she grows out of this before the Nothing-Nuts make Momma completely nuts. 
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