"I Get Bigger"

Last week or a couple weeks ago now, J was trying to get R to stay on the potty one day so he started teaching her how to snap. She can totally do the hand movement, but she doesn't exert enough force to make her finger slap on to her palm in order to make the snapping sound. He told her she could do it when she got bigger.

Later that day she announced to me, "I can't snap."

I told her she could and started trying to teach her (not having been privy to J and R's earlier conversation). She kept insisting she could not snap, and then said, "I can do it when I get bigger."

So the last week or so she's been saying, "When I get bigger?" in response to just about everything she's not allowed or able to do.

Yesterday at the dinner table we were all talking about whistling, and I told J he had to be the one to teach R how to whistle, because I can't whistle at all.

R looks at me and says, "When you get bigger, Mommy!"