PUUCHINI!!!

It was pretty hot today, so in an effort to distract Madelyn from all the fun stuff in our backyard, I tried to get her interested in eating supper so we could head straight inside to our cool house.

As I took her out of her car seat, the following exchange took place...

Daddy: Alright, Madelyn! Do you want to go in and have BIG NOODLES?!?! (Her term for Beefaroni!)
Madelyn: No! Daddy, I want to have Puuchini!
Daddy (perplexed): Uhhh... sorry, what do you want?
Madelyn: Puuchini! Puuchini!
Daddy (not wanting to seem stupid because he doesn't know what Puuchini is...): OH! You want Puuchini!
Madelyn: No, Daddy! I want to have PUUCHINI!
Daddy: (thinking) Could have sworn that's what I said... there must be some subtle nuance with my double-"u" pronunciation that's causing some confusion here..

Luckily, as soon as we got in, Madelyn was distracted enough with her pencil crayons that I could just make the Beefaroni I'd planned on making in the first place! Whew!

In the meantime, guess what I'm going to look for next time I'm at Safeway!

PS - it is entirely possible that she was just hoping to listen to some opera when she got inside, but we haven't introduced her to Puccini. Probably never will. ;)