Some days I wish we could say that.  But our kids really are in the "parroting" stage. And have been for years.

We are diehard Andy Griffith Show fans. My daughter--codenamed "Thelma Lou" --can imitate almost any character on that show.  I decided to try a different show for family our family television watching when she started copying Otis' line, "Slow it down and let me in or I'll go out and get some gin...."  She also does a mean Daphne-of-the-Fun-Girls interpretation---"Hello, Doll".  Well, we've had to "nip that in the bud,"--sorry!

So, we started watching a couple of old episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies for a change.

She called her brother a jackrabbit this morning and tried to box him.

We tried watching Thomas the Train on PBS.  She played runaway train down the hall.With a laundry  basket on her head.

We happened to watch a Gomer Pyle episode and now we hear at the most unlikely times this angelic-looking  little creature boom out, "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" like Sgt. Carter....

I guess I'll have to accept some imitations while she's in this stage. She doesn't watch much TV at all. Maybe an hour at night when Dad watches something. Hopefully the rest of the time my little blonde tornado will be learning to imitate Jesus. 

She saw an old Gunsmoke episode recently though. Now she loves to imitate Chester Goode, limp and all. Oh, dear.....