"I'm having a tantrum now!"

Daisy is so verbally expressive that she announced her own tantrum yesterday. She started to melt down and suddenly she stopped and said with a very conscious look, "I'm having a tantrum now." You would think a person who could discuss her own tantrum so rationally could also STOP HERSELF from having the tantrum!

Today Daisy has been pretending to go to school with a purse and a lunchbox, and pretending to write on a chalkboard. All day long she has been saying that she is Miss Monica, the library storytime lady. Good signs for getting ready for preschool, I think. Other sayings Daisy has been into today: "Don't mention it" and "I could hardly believe it!"

Oh, one last thing. Daisy has been talking a lot about drawing a "self-portrait." Today she pointed out a painting in one of her books and said to me, "There's going to be a mama self-portrait to take care of all the little baby self-portraits." She has some pretty funny, odd usages.