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So I swore I'd start writing down when Ella says or does awesome things, because, well, a) she does it all the time and 2) I know I'll forget that she was so damn awesome. Well, not entirely, but I'll forget the details.
So tonight, we put her in her bed with the usual fight: I have to get some water, I need medicine for my cough (I say "you're not coughing" and she fakes a cough), I need to go potty, I need you to read me one more book (followed by reading the book up until the penultimate page where she says "I don't like this book" and gets another--she doesn't think I've caught on to that trick yet).
So after reading the last book (If You Give a Moose a Muffin), she gets in bed and I come out to the living room to play wow with my husband and with some friends of ours. Soon, I see the child standing on the steps to the living room with her duck costume hat on (from when she was 10 months old for Halloween 06) and she says she has to go potty. I take her potty, she does her thing and as I'm putting her back into her bed, her face lights up and she says, "I totally sneaked out of bed and into your room. And no one saw me."
I laugh and say "yes, you totally did." And then I realize what she's said. She sneaked into my room.
She then says "I put my money in your room." At that point she gets up, we go into my room and she has hidden a couple of play coins from her toy piggy bank in a slipper on my nightstand. And she shows them to me. Then she shows me a real quarter and says, "I put this in my mouth. I know it's trouble."
At that point, she walks back into her bedroom, climbs in her bed and lies down.
Seriously, come ON.
So tonight, we put her in her bed with the usual fight: I have to get some water, I need medicine for my cough (I say "you're not coughing" and she fakes a cough), I need to go potty, I need you to read me one more book (followed by reading the book up until the penultimate page where she says "I don't like this book" and gets another--she doesn't think I've caught on to that trick yet).
So after reading the last book (If You Give a Moose a Muffin), she gets in bed and I come out to the living room to play wow with my husband and with some friends of ours. Soon, I see the child standing on the steps to the living room with her duck costume hat on (from when she was 10 months old for Halloween 06) and she says she has to go potty. I take her potty, she does her thing and as I'm putting her back into her bed, her face lights up and she says, "I totally sneaked out of bed and into your room. And no one saw me."
I laugh and say "yes, you totally did." And then I realize what she's said. She sneaked into my room.
She then says "I put my money in your room." At that point she gets up, we go into my room and she has hidden a couple of play coins from her toy piggy bank in a slipper on my nightstand. And she shows them to me. Then she shows me a real quarter and says, "I put this in my mouth. I know it's trouble."
At that point, she walks back into her bedroom, climbs in her bed and lies down.
Seriously, come ON.