Getting too Smart

Catherine is getting too smart to be fooled by us these days. Sunday morning she wanted to go out to the sunroom, but Bill and I wanted to stay inside to finish our coffee. It was fairly cold out, about 37 degrees, so we told her it was too cold to go outside. She started saying some word over and over, that we couldn't understand, and was getting very frustrated. Finally we said, "sorry we can't understand. Do you know a sign, or can you show us?" She immediately started saying, "up, up," and took Bills hand. She lead him to the front hall closet, and said, "Jacket, daddy. Jacket." She had been saying "jacket"over and over, but we just couldn't understand the word on it's own. Maybe we just weren't expecting her to reply to us so rationally when we told her it was too cold to go outside!