Henni: (after looking down at her own post-dinner tummy) Oh, I have a baby in my tummy.
Me: (smiling) oh yeah?
Henni: (looking alarmed)... but... I am a baby!
Me: (tucking Henni in for the night) What should we pray about tonight?
Henni: Let's pray about Panda bears.
Henni's favorite phrase of the month is "How can that be?" and she says this in a rhetorical (and not quite sarcastic, yet) sort of way. For example, Henni sets up her wooden tea party set nicely for us. She has put a piece of cake on a plate for me, but Junjun snatches it before I get to it and shoves it in his mouth. Then Henni says, "Hmm, baby got your cake, mom. How can that be?"
She is also experimenting with the superlatives these days.
Me: (washing this season's new strawberries) Hey, Henni, these are the most scrumptious strawberries in the world!
Henni: (after taking a bite, and mimicking the high and exaggerated tone I had just used) yeah, mom, these are the moooooooooost strawberries!
Along with the superlatives, she also loves to describe a noun with a modifying phrase using "that". "Mom, can you read the book that I love most?" (of course, the book changes every day) "Mom, I want to pick out the panties that I like best." But sometimes she is a bit off: (rejecting the pink spoon I set on her table) "No, mom! I want a spoon that I want!"
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