out of the mouths of babes....

There are a number of words Ella uses that mean other things. These are getting fewer and fewer since she can talk since a lot of them came out of her not being able to say certain words when she was little. My favorites though are the ones that are just her sheer creativity :-)

Ella-isms

her "hair dresser"-the drawer in her dresser where we keep hair stuff

"map"-any kind of menu or directions or actual map that you read to decide the next step

"standing holder"-her wooden stool from ikea. she named it this a LONG time ago because that's what it does, it's for standing and holding :-) Now we all refer to it that way.

"happy time"-morning. Not anymore but for a good year Ella would come into our room in the morning and hold open the curtains and say "You have to get up! It's Happy Time now!!"

"I spy"-any tool or toy you look through (binoculars, kaleidoscope-both are "i-spies")

"Hobo"-when Ella was tiny she couldn't say "pillow" so she called them "hobos." Chris decided this was now the word for pillows in our house and we all still use it a good 2 1/2 years later :-)
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Overheard Ella saying to Chris very matter of fact-ly and angrily "When I'm an adult I'm going to do whatever I want. And when I am an adult and I have kids, I'm going to let them do whatever they want!"


Ella (after taking her Tinkerbell vitamins): Mama! I just ate worm keeper!
Me: a what?
Ella: a worm keeper
Me (legitimately confused):a worm keeper? What is that?
Ella: you know, where worms stay until they're ready to come out and be beautiful butterflies!
Me (laughing): ahh! like a cocoon?
Ella:No mom. Like a worm keeper.


We were talking about Snow White while reading the story and got to the page where she's laying in a coffin-type thing with her eyes closed
Me:oh no! Did she die?
Ella: No. Don't worry. She just went to sleep with some flowers for her hobo.