A Dinner Time Conversation

The scene:  Bentley, as usual, has been insisting that he is not hungry.  

Mommy: "Bentley, what do you want to eat?  Noodles, toast, rice?"

Bentley: (points to the cute Halloween tin (from Target!) full of Reeses) "I want THOSE!"

Mommy & Daddy in unison: "No, those aren't a dinner food."

I add:  "Those are for after dinner.  You can have 2 if you eat dinner"

Bentley: (after a pause) "No, I want 9!"

Mommy: "Sorry.   Not 9.  Do you know how many 9 is?!!"

9?  That's a new one.  Normally we compromise on 3.  What a crazy kid!

* Update: he came back, just now, to let me know he'd be okay with 3.