The Doctor Is -- In --

Come one, come all. Lately, Anna has had an answer for everything. The following are some of her words of wisdom.
For free.

General

• I told Anna she needed to try to go to the bathroom before she went out to the park. She told me it wasn't necessary, that she would just pee in the park by a tree.
  
  Ignoring the obvious approach here, I tried a different tack: I reminded her that if she peed in the park she wouldn't have any privacy, and did she really want everyone watching her while she peed?
  The answer:
  "Well... I can just look away
  [dramatic sweep of her right palm upwards]
  and put up my stop hand."
  
  
• I asked Anna why she had stepped right on my purse, which was, in fact, on the floor. She told me it was because "I hadn't put it away properly".
  
  
• Anna ran up to me and told me that she was going to give me a sticker for participating. I asked her what 'participating' means. She told me
  "Participating means doing what your teacher says."
  
  
• With the bathtub letters, Anna made the word h-a-m and then sounded it out.
  Then babysitter Anna asked little Anna what ham is.
  "Hmmnn, ham... it's a kind of bologna."
  
  
• Anna, why won't you eat your corn? You love corn. You like corn muffins, right?
  "Well... I like a little bit of corn, and a little bit of muffin."
  
  
• Anna, why is the bathroom floor wet? Did you have an accident?
  "That's not pee, it's muck. Muck is a kind of water that is very dirty and lives on the floor."
  

Fashion

• Anna, why do you only wear dresses? You need to start wearing some of your skirts.
  "But dresses are more beautiful for me!"

• Anna and Tommy are playing with the trains.
  Anna has one of the people that sit in the train cars.
  Tommy is crying. Anna took his train.
  I tell Anna she can't take the train that Tommy is using.
  "But Mommy, I need a train with a seat that matches his outfit!"

Existential

• "Mommy, can the meat talk because it's taco (aka talk-o) meat?"
  
  
• Anna and I saw a photo of Bompa (great grandpa). Anna told me Bompa was with her other "die friends"--Great Grandma and her fish.
  
  
• After a reflective pause:
  "Mommy, you need a new Grandma and I need a new fish!"