One Toddler's Opinion

This morning, I had a conversation with a couple other moms of toddlers, and our topic turned to our kids' increasing tendencies to have their opinions known.

It didn't hit me until later how true that topic rang around this house. This afternoon, Norah emerged from her room with a sippy cup she'd stashed after breakfast, thereby containing warm, congealing milk. I grabbed it from her as soon as I saw it headed to her lips (come on, that's just gross!) and she immediately cried "More! More, please!" I went into the kitchen to get her a fresh cup and began filling it with cold water from the fridge. Norah, at my heels, immediately began protesting, "No! Mahk! Mahk!" (Translation: No, Milk, Milk!) Apparently, when she asked for more, she really did mean more, not just a consolation beverage. So I poured out the water and topped her off with some fresh milk.
With said milk in tow, she climbed into Jason's recliner and announced with enthusiasm, "Bob....please!" This is her way of telling me that she'd like to watch Veggie Tales. She has been on a major veggie kick lately. I put on a Backyardigans dvd a few days ago and she put both hands palm up, as if to say, "What?" and then said, "Bob?" (you could hear the question mark in her voice) While part of me finds it a little early to be catering to the opinions of my little girl, I guess the majority of me is just thankful that she has enough grasp of the English language to make her wishes known, so at least I'm not completely clueless as to why she's disgruntled.