why?

Is there any phase more obnoxious than the "Why?" phase? I thought this phases usually started at 3, but Thomas is ahead of schedule. He started with the Why?s several months ago. Oh, how I miss those days.

Because you know what is even MORE obnoxious than the "Why?" phase? The "Why not?" phase! Because, really, how do you answer this? He doesn't use it in context, he just asks Why Not to everything. We finally just started answering, "I don't know how to answer that!" to which, of course, he replies, "Why not?"

We were playing with a stuffed cow the other day. I was the voice of the cow, and whenever Thomas would tell the cow something, the cow would ask, "Why?" After two Why?s with two answers, I decided it was time to turn the tables. The cow asked Thomas, "Why not?" to which he relied, "Cause...I don't know how to answer that!" Ahh, mimicry.