Out of the mouths of precocious three-year-olds

Adell has been a chatty-child for ages now.  In fact, I cannot remember the long ago day when she did not know how to express her every thought in full sentences.  She has also developed a keen sense of obedience; she polices every member of our family and will report rule-breakers quickly but her own criminal enterprises are to be ignored at all costs.

On the day of the Miss America Party I made a pan of Carmelitas for the party.  Of course, all of the children could smell the tempting caramel-chocolate-cookie goodness and wanted to have some too.  I promised a piece for each child after the treats were cooled and they had eaten all of their lunch.  I made the treats in the morning and lunch time might as well* have been a year away in my kids minds.  When Will came out to the kitchen he spotted the pan of goodies and scooped out a bite.  Adell, watching from the floor said "Oh!  Did Momma saaaaaay you could have some of that?" in her best "your-dead-meat-sucker" voice.

One evening Adell came running into Clare saying "Clare, Clare, Clare!  I have good news and bad news!  The good news is, Uncle Alan gave me a high-five (Uncle Alan was visiting us for a couple of days).  The bad news is I lost the tea cup to this." (holding up a special doll tea set Clare got for Christmas)

Adell can be very sweet too.  Just this morning she and Clare were in the bathroom.  Some how Clare closed her finger in the door.  Adell gingerly escorted Clare into Daddy.  Daddy was busy and couldn't help Clare right away so I heard Adell say "Just run it under cool water and it will feel better."

She is a funny girl and we love her.  Even when she is throwing her daily three o'clock three-year-old tantrum.  We love her.





*Might as well have a laugh on me...or about me...  When I was a college freshman I was writing a paper in my dorm room.  I turned to my roommate and asked "How do you spell mi-taz?" She was confused "Mi-taz? What do you mean?"  "You know, mi-taz," I supplied "I mi-taz well quit while I am ahead.  Mi-taz."    She was still confused.  "Do you mean 'might as well'?"  
"Ummm, maybe.  Is 'mi-taz' not a real word?"
"I don't think so..."
Incidentally, she graduated from college.  I did not.