What you doing?

I recently read in a friend's blog that her son has reached the "why?" stage. And I was thinking about what a nice change of pace "Why?" would be from "What you doing?"

If I'm doing anything that looks remotely interesting, and by interesting I mean anything that I don't want my kid involved with, I get a preschooler crawling into my lap or up my leg asking, "What you doing?" or "What's that?" If you ignore the question, or say "Nothing." you get the question repeated, over, and over, and over, and over until you come up with a better answer. Joy.