This thread reminded me of when DD4 was not quite 2.5 - she had fallen out of her "big girl" bed and broken her collarbone, so we had to take her to the ER. Two weeks later at a follow-up visit to our family clinic, our doctor asked her, "Did you hurt your arm?" My kid responded with, "No, I broke my clavicle. Can I still go on the waterslide?" He was pretty speechless. :-)
Along those lines, does anyone else find themselves in an awkward position when your kid says anything out of the ordinary? Once, at a friend's birthday party, my DD-then-not-quite 2 said, "I'm full. Can I be excused?" in completely non-little-kid articulation. One of the other moms looked at me and said, "Must be nice to be a teacher and have all that time in the summer to work with your kid." As if I drilled language development with my toddler! I never know how to respond to that stuff....
