3 Years Old

My niece, Claire, is a riot. Here are some of the funny things she said over the break:

• “What are those boys doing?” (Referring to my dad and brother looking at slides)
• “I put my panties on my head! It was like a Panty Hat!” (She woke T.J. and I up with that important news)
• “I don’t want to ride down this mountain!” (Referring to sledding down our driveway which is not very steep at all)
• “Hi, ‘Hide and Seek’ Sam!” (Sam always plays Hide and Seek with her…)
• “I want a lay down diaper with bottom cream!” (She sees the new baby get a diaper with cream so now when she tears her pull-ups apart and wants to be like the baby)
• “That’s gorgeous!” (Referring to a toy at the dollar store)
• “Hold on to that tight because that is very fragile!” (Referring to her new little plastic piggy bank)
• “I want to play with that girl!” (Pointing at me)
• “PAUSE THE TV! PAUSE IT! PAUSE IT!” (She had to upstairs for a minute and just kept shouting this)
• “I’m a crackernut!” (She calls nutcrackers, “crackernuts”)
• “I want to watch the movie where the boy steps on his glasses and cries!” (Referring to the Christmas Story)
• “My name is Megan.” (Her reply when someone asked her for her name.)
• “I hate wolves, bears, beasts, and rats!” (She went on to tell my why. All of them are from stories that scare her to death)
• “YOU’RE ON FIRE, YOU’RE BURNING TO DEATH!” (We were playing “hot and cold.” I wasn’t anywhere near where she hid her toy.)
• She starts most of her sentences saying, “Maybe… Maybe….. Maybe…” while shaking her index finger like she’s thinking.