She sounds adorable! :)

Oh, she is :)

It's remarkable to me how quickly she went from "little girl" to "big kid". I noticed recently that I rarely have to get on her case about her behavior anymore, she hardly ever whines, she does what I ask of her without requiring me to ask multiple times with increasing volume and decreasing politeness, and she's just suddenly this mature, intelligent, happy, self-sufficient kid.

Being a dad is so the best thing ever.

Being a dad is so the best thing ever.
Possibly the sexiest thing a man can say. Seriously. (And your girly sounds like a cutie and the kind of kid I'd want mine to play with.)

I'm sexy! Woo! *flexes*

I've ruined it now, haven't I?

Nope. If seeing Stacy Q in concert didn't ruin it, nothing can.

Wow. *blinks* You have a good remembery.

This whole thread has made my horrible first-Monday-back-from-vacation day much, much better. ,small>(Even though I wish I had a way to pay mike back on the "flexing" thing...)

I was cutting through campus yesterday, past the church where apparently Sunday School was just getting out. Three little boys were playing in the fountain-pond-thingy in front of the library. I was wondering if I should try to prevent such shenanigans when one of the kids said, "Look! I'm Jesus! I'm walking on water!"

For some reason, biblical stories presented in the same way that one would present superhero stories cracks me up.

I love cute kids. Is she available for rent?

You have a good remembery

Just a weird one. I can remember things like that and all the colors in Joseph's Amazing Technicolar Dreamcoat, but I don't know my own cell number. (My daughter refers to "Memory" as "the Remembery game" and has kicked my ass at it consistently since she was about 2.)

I, too, regularly have my ass kicked in Memory by a tiny person. It must be nice not to have one's brain all clogged up with appointments and repressed memories and lyrics to songs that I hate.

I will pay your daughter good money to tutor me in perfecting that look. Then I'm gonna use it at work about five billion times a day.

The "God, my dad is such a fucking idiot" look, dabitch?

Hmm, this thread seems to be creating some money-making opportunities for me my daughter...

The all time two favorite things my kid said:

1. When she was very little, me walking her around, getting her to sleep. There were some crickets outside and she tilts her head, listens, and says, "the crickets are choking."

2. Fast forward to a sarcastic 8-year-old. We are in Oaxaca, going to various villages. Pottery, wood carving, rugs, etc. Each village has it's specialty. W are out on this hot, dry, windblown highway waiting for the bus and I comment on a certain Nissan wagon (the Tsumabe) which is not sold in the US. She goes, "well I am glad there's not a CAR village."

Your kid is adorable mike. Some of the best things get said, riding in the car, huh?

Yep, but I'll use it like "God, my dad YOU is are such a fucking idiot" and aim it at my co-workers that get in the line of look-fire. Especially on Mondays. ;)

My three-and-a-half year-old grandson was helping with the gardening on Father's Day, when he came out with this one:

"I have to use a new tool. I think I'll get something dangerous."

Wait...Flo, you're a grandpa? Huh. What a lucky boy!

Thanks! Yeah, at 43 I'm a grandpa twice over already. Benefits of marrying an older woman with three kids when I was 21. My grandson is 3 1/2, and my grandaughter (his cousin) is 2 1/2. They call me "Pappa," and haven't quite realized that I'm not perfect, yet.

Well, that's obviously because you *are* perfect.

I noticed recently that I rarely have to get on her case about her behavior anymore, she hardly ever whines, she does what I ask of her without requiring me to ask multiple times with increasing volume and decreasing politeness

Enjoy that while it lasts. It kicks in again when they become teenagers. ;)

And she sounds quite adorable indeed.

Thanks, Occhi, I needed that.

I'm seconding what CitrusFreak said.

Mike, you ought to write her statements down. I have a journal just for things like that. Cases in point:

1. At my Mom's house, I was looking at old photos of my brother and I as kids and showing them to my four year old. I pointed to a picture of my brother at about my son's age and said "That's your Uncle Shane at your age." My son looks intently at the picture, then asks "But where's his beard?"

2. Playing outside with our neighbors, my son found a pink plastic shark. He started making up a story with me where he'd caught the last pink shark and was getting an award for it. So I "presented" him with a "big award". He pretended to carry it, then handed it back to me and said "I don't want this big award. I want a little one with a bag of money."

3. Driving on a winters' day, taking my sons to day care. We pass a group of kids waiting for the school bus, and my son notices they are wearing ear muffs, like he is. "Mommy! They have ear-muzzles like I do!"

Hehehehe, your daughter's got a better "remembery" than I do, and she looks _adorable_!