L found my Pepe the Prawn toy, which is still in its clamshell packaging. She's been begging me to open it, insisting over and over, "I will not break it, OK, because I will not break it, because I promise that I will not break it. OK? I want to hold that, OK, because I want to hold it."

It makes me laugh how she'll keep using "because" and "OK" making the sentence go on and on, until you break in with a response. I've found that if I just look interested and engaged, she'll just keep going, and going...

She also comes up with a "because" reason for practically anything she's talking about. Just a bit ago, she wanted me to reach under the couch to pick up a toy, "because if [she] reaches under the couch then [her] arm will get stuck and break." Other "because" justifications abound. I just wish I could think of more right now.