"I Don't Eat Beans"

Well, it has been a slow week for "Willisms" so I decided to write about an oldie but goody. When Will first started eating "real food" we started him on sweet potatoes...when he was 5 months old. Well, he LOVED them!!! I was told by the doctor to let him eat the same thing for at least 3 days and then try something new, to make sure he didn't have an allergic reaction. Well, my mom says to give him green beans because, "all babies love green beans"! Well, about 3-4 spoonfuls in....he starts gagging. He gagged until he made himself throw up!! Well, I tried to give him green beans a couple more times and he wasn't having any of it! So, fast forward a few years to about 6 months ago. I decided that it was time that Will started trying new foods...he won't even taste something if he doesn't like the way it looks!! I put some green beans on his plate thinking I could bribe him into taking a taste. I told him if he didn't taste a bean that he couldn't have a popsicle. He told me "fine, I don't want a popsicle", so I said "Good, I'll just eat yours!"...thinking that this would motivate him to taste a bean...nope, my smarty pants kid says "What color do you want?" I could not hide my face in time and I had to turn around to keep from laughing!!! He goes on to say (in his Opie Taylor voice) that "My name is Will Hunter and that means I Don't Eat Beans"!!! How do you argue with that??

To this day, you can ask him what his name means and he will say "I don't eat beans".