Alice has acquired the habit of announcing to her parents the fact that she is talking to herself. This turns out to always be a self falsified statement, as she expects the targeted parent to respond with an affirmation that Alice is not talking to that parent, but to Alice.
Then there’s this bold statement, delivered to me as Alice walked in to my office.
Alice: Daddy, I not going to pee on your chair anymore because I a big girl now.
That’s the kind of thing that warms a Dad’s heart.
Alice sometimes decides that she needs to be called “Princess Dora”. But only by Dad — Mom is supposed to still call her “Alice”.
She drove Charles to an absolute screaming fit and near violence the other day by turning him in to a chicken with her magic princess wand. At one point Charles trapped her in a corner and refused to let her go until he wasn’t a chicken anymore.
Alice proposed declared marriage with the 2½ year old boy she plays with while her brothers are practicing soccer. The impending marriage of Erica (this weekend!) seems to be affecting her thoughts. After we bought a wedding gift for Erica, Alice “called” her on Alice’s toy cell phone and had a long talk with Erica about it, so we already know that Erica loves her present.