Cucumber

Mr. Mister always wants to know what's going on when I'm making a meal in the kitchen. He stands on a chair next to the counter and loves to help. Tonight, he helped me put the salad together for dinner. He put the lettuce in each bowl and after I cut up the vegetables, he put those into the bowls too.

Here was our conversation as I was cutting the cucumber:
Me: Can you say cucumber?
Mr. Mister: mano (this is his word for both banana and tomato)
Me: Cucumber
Mr. Mister: mano
Me: (very slowly with emphasized pronunciation) CU-CUM-BER
Mr. Mister: (very slowly with emphasized pronunciation) MAN-O

So mano it is. We'll keep working on it.