Daddy, can you please go away?

About a month and a half ago, Elisabeth began a new pattern of speech. If I told her not to do something, she would sit (for example) by the thing that I told her not to touch, and say, "Daddy, can you please go away?"

Yesterday she was playing with some adult friends as I talked with them. Elisabeth turned to me and said, "Daddy, can you go away so we can have fun?"

At least this time she wasn't planning something disobedient . . .