the top three most awesome things my daughter said as a kid

My daughter just turned 18 and is currently traveling by herself in Australia. She's always seemed ahead of her time and an old soul:

1. At age 4: I'm late to pick her up at day care four days in a row and holding my hand as we toddle to the car she says: "Daddy, you're losing your 'tegrity. Show does not know how to spell or pronounce the word but she knows how to nail her father to the wall with it.

2. At age 5: we are camping out in the Ghost River area, everyone but Maren and I have gone to bed, I'm drifting off in front of the fire and she's says: "I have thoughts that nobody knows about". I wake up immediately recognizing that this is not going to be some standard 4 year old babble. She goes on to explain her theories of the genesis of the universe and the structure of human consciousness. In retrospect, she might be right.

3. At age 7: she has completed her first year of school and tells me the friend making strategy she's learned: "it's better to make friends at the start of the year, because if you wait until the end of the year to try to make friends with someone, it could take up to five minutes."

"They grow up so fast" is a cliché, but it's a cliché for a reason.