102,000 pizzas vs 1 bit of spinach

"Please E, eat your spinach. Just this one bite." I pleaded.

He had taken a bite of salmon and was not repulsed. I thought maybe he was being a bit more adventurous and open minded this evening. He chewed that fish like a cow chews a cud. It seemed endless.

"Spinach makes you big and strong!" he told me as he flexed his arms and scrunched up his face.

I began to sing the Popeye theme song and he sang along, the cud still in his mouth.

"Don't you want to grow up big and strong? Eat your spinach and you will."

"I'll grow strong when I eat 102,000 pizzas," he told me. "When I'm 8 I'm going to Chuck E. Cheese's."

I've been to Chuck E. Cheese's and he's been saying he's going to go there when he'’s 8 for a while now.

I'm holding him to it, no Chuck E. Cheese’s until you're 8.