funny things ella has said in the past 6 months

i can't believe i haven't been writing for so many months.  but i've been using my iphone to jot down all the random things that elenora says that strike me as particularly amusing.

months ago, i was going through all of ella's clothing and piling up the clothes she'd grown out of (she is 42 inches now!) and some of the clothing happened to be underwear.  pink and purple underwear.  with hearts and flowers on them.  i was wondering out loud about what to do with the clothing and ella generously and enthusiastically said "i know! we can give them to Nathan!"

one time i was driving elenora someplace and she said matter-of-factly "Daddy's car is not as fast as yours."  i laughed so hard because, you know, it's really the driver.

one day, again matter-of-factly, elenora said "mommy, there are things for you at PBS.org."

some poignant things elenora has said include her statement one morning: "how do we know who is who when they get older? because they don't look like they do when they are younger."

and also she said, just the other night, "the alphabet is in the words when you talk. the words that you say are made of letters."

at the beginning of the summer, elenora discovered a little green caterpillar at her mamaw's house and the 2 of them put this caterpillar (named Katrina) into a jar with some leaves and water and kept it overnight.  when i arrived at ballet to pick ella up, i found her overnight bag balancing the jar inside of it.  we took Katrina home and elenora was so sweet to it all day until she suddenly lost it in the grass outside of our house.  she started crying and crying saying "Katrina is my best friend!" so a neighbor saw a butterfly and suggested that Katrina had transformed into a butterfly.  elenora wailed in despair "no! first she has to slowly perform a chrysalis!"

last week as we were driving to Ocean City, NJ, for a vacation, we drove through Rutgers campus as crowds of fans were arriving for a football game.  throngs of people were crossing the street in their red shirts, and ella said "there sure are a lot of lifeguards around here."

some words that elenora adorably mispronounces include: "prentzels," "Anne of Cream Gables," "marsket basket," and "inventure" instead of adventure.

the other night as i was cooking dinner, elenora came up from her tub all clean and PJed and she pattered into the living room and turned on the TV and i heard her exclaim "oh good! it's already on HDMI1."

once, when j. was having a hard time zipping up a tricky zipper, he decided to throw his frustration into a "dear jesus, please help me to get this zipper up" prayer.  ella responded with "maybe jesus just wants you to do it yourself."

ella has informed me that stars look like the sun only the sun has a face and stars don't... which, if you think of all the children's book illustrations, you'll realize is true.

we were playing at the castle a few weeks ago and t. created a series of clues for the girls to run around and find. at one point they were having a hard time locating a clue and t. yelled up to rose "You can't see it?" and rose yelled back "yeah".  ella then called down "it's the kind of 'yeah' that means 'no'!"