Violet was pushing her toy vacuum around the room. She got to the middle of the room and found our dog Doolin beached on the carpet having a snooze. Violet bumped him in the butt with her vacuum.
She didn't really do it hard, so I just said, "Violet come on. Doolin's trying to have a nap."
"I'm only doing it on purpose," she said, which as a phase caught me by surprise. With the "I'm only doing it" part, I expected a "by accident" to follow, not an "on purpose." It took me a minute to get my brain around that.
"Violet come on. Be nice to your doggie."
"But Daddy, I'm only doing it on purpose." Such a weird turn of phrase. It makes literal and logical sense, but it's a phrase an adult would never say.
As weird and kindof cute as it was, that dog is a saint with what he puts up with, so I had to threaten to take her vacuum away if she didn't work on another spot of the carpet away from the dog.
It still sticks in my head, though, like maybe I can say "but I'm only doing it on purpose" to shift attention away from something bad I'm doing. Or maybe you have to be two and a half and cute to pull it off.
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