Recent Eden quotes/anecdotes

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Grammy: Look at Emet's bear hat!
Eden (after examining it closely for several seconds): Actually, it's a monkey.

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Eden (seeing a McDonalds): That's for french fries.

Sadly, that was not the first time she said that - she made that statement much younger!

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Background: Eden has been very intense lately.  Combo of two year old and adjustment to new baby, no doubt, plus her usual spirited personality!  We are trying hard to parent and guide her in a positive way, but I wind up using kind of a smorgasbord of methods - have read several but we haven't quite settled on one.  I know that consistency is most important of all ... we're trying!  I will say that happily, her tantrums while intense are short-lived, unlike the spell of tantrums she had awhile back.

But that's all to explain where some of these quotes come from.

Eden: (TANTRUM)
Mommy (trying to implement "happiest toddler on the block" toddler caveman speak): You're so mad mad mad!  You wanted to stay in the bath!  You didn't want to get out!  That made you so frustrated and mad!
Eden: (pauses and cracks up, and after another pause, resumes TANTRUM)

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Mommy: What would I like right now? (note: correct answer is for her to get out of the bath quietly)
Eden (basically describing what she is doing at that moment): Screaming and reaching!

This was several weeks ago - but she remembers when we laugh at things, and to this day if I ask her "what would I like?" she says "screaming and reaching"

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Little boy at Fernbank pretending to be a dinosaur: I want that!
Aunt Becky: What do you say?
Little boy: Please.
(Later on, after Mommy arrives ...)
Aunt Becky: Eden played with a dinosaur!
Mommy: You DID?  Great!
Eden: I'm so proud of him.

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Background: Eden has interesting ways of exerting her independence lately....

Eden: You go in the kitchen with my daddy.

Eden (about to climb the stairs): No, it's my turn.  You go (pointing to kitchen) and play with my friends.  I'll be right back.

Eden: Mommy and Daddy you go away.  I stay in the car.

Eden: You go sit next to my water bottle.

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Background: While Michael was on his retreat, we told Eden he was on a trip.  This took place after he came back, and we had a bunch of stuff to unload from the car -

Mommy (to Daddy): I think you may have to take another trip.
Eden: No!  You are NOT going on another trip!

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Background: We have been on parenting overdrive lately to try to correct the whining and to instill manners (e.g. please and thank you).

At Figo, after the waiter came by:
Eden: I don't like that man.
Mommy/Daddy: Eden, that's not nice!  We don't say that.
Eden:  I don't like that man please.

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Background: When we take away a game she is playing she doesn't always transition well.  She had a tantrum after we took away a cell phone game and put her in the car.  She wailed for a few minutes, and then eventually calmed down and said:

Eden: What happened to me?
Us: What do you mean what happened to you?  Nothing happened to you.
Eden: I melted!

(we think she meant had a meltdown)