Let Them Eat Cake

The kids and I watched The Little Mermaid today. I hadn't seen it in ages and they had never seen it (or if they had, none of us remember). So we're watching and Bella is not terribly interested, but Carter is following the story intently.

We get to the point in the movie where the hopelessly dense (but dashing) Prince Eric is getting ready to wed Ursula the sea witch in her clever disguise, leaving our voiceless heroine Ariel weeping silently on the dock as the wedding ship pulls away.

Bella's attention was piqued. "Why is she crying, Mommy?"
"What do you think?" (the teacher in me always likes to force them to think for themselves - lame, I know...)
"OHHHHHHH...I know. She's sad because she doesn't get any cake."
"Yup. That's it"
You really can't argue with that logic.