The things she says

Madelyn often surprises me with the things she comes up with.  Here are a couple recent ones that have been memorable.

We were at a Babies R Us when Madelyn suddenly had to use the bathroom...I guess it is pretty sudden when you are not quite 3.  Sometimes she tends to be a little squirrelly when on an adult size toilet so I cautioned her to be careful and sit still.  She looked at me and said that she agreed she needed to be careful because otherwise someone might come in and flush her down the toilet.  (I did clarify with her that no one would flush her down the toilet and my concerns were more along the lines of her falling and getting her clothes wet.)

Last week when we were having dinner out with my parents Madelyn was observing to my dad that Evan was looking around a lot at things.  She said "his head goes around and around...like the earth goes around the sun..."  Although not a perfect comparison I was nonetheless impressed by her use of simile.

Last year Madelyn was pretty distressed during the fireworks on the 4th of July and so at the time we assured her that fireworks would not come again until after Daddy's birthday (which is the 3rd).  Today we were talking about her birthday since it is coming up and she wanted to know whose birthday would be next.  I let her know that Daddy's birthday would be next and she immediately got upset and said "I don't like fireworks!"  Evidently we need to make sure we only tell her things we want her to remember...