ideas

the other day as we were driving ella said "i have 3 ideas." and she must have liked how that sounded because she kept saying things like "i have ideas. i do. i have 3 ideas." and then we'd pass a field of horses or something and i'd say "look at the horses" and she'd say "that's my idea." and then we'd pass a person walking a dog and she'd say "that dog is my idea."

today as we took a walk around the block elenora said "i see an orange squirrel" which made no sense to me, so i was looking and looking and ella was insisting that she saw an orange squirrel. suddenly an orangish little chihuahua ran out in front of us and started yapping at us and ella just kind of looked at me like "see?"

this afternoon we went to m.'s house to visit with her and nathan. m. laid out a platter of sliced bananas, muffins, blueberries and honey for us to snack on. (i caught ella just in time as she was raising the dripping honey spoon directly to her mouth.) i noticed ella dipping her finger into the honey on her muffin and she then stated "honey is different from maple syrup."

what a good observation.