Ella Funnies

Ella has become such the funny little girl and everyday surprises us into laughter with her random thoughts, expressions and banter.

* In a Walmart parking lot she randomly and aggressively yelled out, "HEY BUDDY!" This was to no one in particular, but there happened to be a pickup truck full of construction workers nearby...

* When we ask her to eat her dinner, if it's something she doesn't want (veggies in particular) she replies, "No thank you. I don't like them. I'll like them when I'm older."

* Yesterday. Everything is yesterday. "I saw it yesterday." "I wore it yesterday." "I went there yesterday."... it could have been last week but in her time frame, if it already happened, it happened...yesterday :)

* She is married to Emmi. Emmi is her husband. She'll talk about how I married Daddy, and when she takes notice of my wedding ring, she understands I am married to her Daddy. One morning, she looked at my ring, looked at her hand and declared with woeful drama, "Oh no! Where's my ring? I lost it? Emmi didn't give me a ring. Mommy, I'm married to Emmi but he doesn't give me a ring yet." (Christina, she misses Emmi sooooo much!)

* Chores. We have introduced chores to Ella, the little mommy. She mimics me in so many ways and I often find her engaging household "chores" that usually involve more cleanup on my part in the end. The other day she took her bath towel, soaked it in the sink and then used it to wipe the bathroom mirror...water everywhere. So now, she is responsible for making her bed in the morning and doing her dishes. I wash her dishes and she dries them and puts them away. We have very little cupboard space so I have some baskets on a shelf which also makes it easy for her to set the table too :)

Three has been a trying year, two has nothing on a 3 year old! But now that we are weeks away from her fourth birthday, I've seen a tremendous change for the better. Her fits are few and far between and in order to keep her in line I threaten to never do things again if she can't "act like a lady." At the playground, she would often throw tantrums (as all toddlers do) when it was time to leave. Now, we have a little talk before about being a big girl and how if she can't act right, we won't be coming back. Now, I give her a 5 minute heads up that it will soon be time to go, and when it is time to leave, she tells her friends, "Bye friends, see you next time!" and skips back to me... it's the best!