Just a few Ella-isms that I don’t want to forget.
Feeding Bubba the cat invisible fish: “Bubba, try it! It tastes like candy! Just one bite, yummmy. Not mushrooms, fish candy! Try it! Mmmmm. Did you like it? No? Okay, have a bagel.”
Sitting in the floor with one of my books, Alice laying beside her: “Here, I read. See no pictures. Once a time there was a girl named Ell.. Alice! And she go downstairs and watch TV. Max say “Yes!” but Ruby say “No!” and Ella cry. *Flipping pages* The end. New book!”
Every two minutes: “You hear that?”
After a bath: “Mmmm I smell like candy. And Daddy smells like ice cream, Mama smells like coffee, and Alice smells like puke.”
Any time Alice ‘talks’ to her: “Oh Cricket, I love you too.”
Edited to add: At dinner tonight Ella leaned it to tell me something secretive and said “Whales eat me-mes” (her word for penguins). She looked at me for confirmation, and when I nodded, she looked down at her plate. “But then!” she said, throwing her arms in the air, “me-mes dance and me-mes sing!”
I guess someone watched Happy Feet at Grandpa’s house the other day.
And then I blinked.
Happy 5 months Alice.
