So I'm sitting on the couch playing with my granddaughter (2 1/2years old) after Easter dinner. By this time she had been told a number of times by her mom and dad "You've had too many sweets today. No more chocolate!". Suddenly she saw a stray plastic egg on the floor that had fallen out of her basket earlier. She quickly picked it up and looked furtively around to see if either of her parents were around. They weren't. She opened up the egg to find several jellybeans inside. You could almost see her little brain working as she smiled, realizing they were not chocolate and that Nona, who tended to be a pushover, was the only adult in the room.  I almost had the feeling she was sizing me up, trying to assess whether or not I knew that jellybeans were sweets. First she asked, " Do you want a jelly bean, Nona?" and seemed crestfallen when I answered,  "No, thank you, I'm full". "I can have a jelly bean?", she then asked. "Well, O.K.Sarah, but only one," I replied, trying to act the heroine. Obviously delighted that she had put one over on me she chose a jellybean to pop into her mouth but suddenly hesitated. Looking at it closely again she said, clear as day, "This is not a choking hazard?"   I burst out laughing so hard.  Although the topics may change over the years, Kids still Say the Darndest Things!

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