Part of what I love about the girls' names is that they were both popular 100 years ago and many people with those names are now great-grandmas. Both names evoke a vision for me of sweet old ladies rocking away together on a porch. I pray Ella and Sadie will live meaningful lives full of love and will be enjoying each other on a front porch somewhere many years from now.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Ellglish

This is a cute video of Ella painting but it's also evidence of two very common things these days:

1)Narrating her life in song like we're in a musical (she'll do it for 30 minutes straight if we're in the car or she's playing by herself)

2)Mixing made-up words in with real words to create Ella's version of English (Ellglish)

Most of the words in her language end in "-unna" and they're usually either mixed into songs or the names of people/places/things. I have mixed feelings about this-part of me is worried she won't be able to communicate with the outside world if she keeps this up, and part of me knows it's just a phase and enjoys the silliness. Trying to lean towards the latter because if I've learned anything as a mom it's that everything is a phase :-)

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4 comments:

  1. ErinFebruary 6, 2009 at 11:48 PM

    She is so cute!!!

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  2. amy@flexibledreamsFebruary 7, 2009 at 9:20 AM

    The other day in the car Ella tried to tell me something six or eight times with me not understanding her at all. I finally repeated it back EXACTLY like she was saying it (total gibberish) and she said, "YES!! Good job!!"

    Hilarious!!

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  3. ChrissyFebruary 7, 2009 at 10:28 AM

    Fantastic!!!

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  4. Jen @ Rolling Through LooneyvilleFebruary 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    She is TOO CUTE! I love it!

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