Gregrios wrote:Clapper, is it because when you were a kid you were literally a clapper when you would get excited? My neice is like that and what do you know, I might just have to use that nickname for her.

The curlette is exactly the same.
She didn't know she did it until we were making up extra verses for "old MacDonald" and mocking each other. My verse for her was "with a clap, clap here, and a clap, clap there...".
Ever since then she has been embarrassed by this habit and tries not to do it. Of course, I try all the harder to delight her (hmm...could she be playing me here?) - the last time I got her was with a packet of Prawn Cocktail crisps.