these are a few of my favorite things

I made some pumpkin custard tonight. We served the kids some warm from the oven with a dollop of vanilla ice cream on top. Ooo it was yummy with the hot and cold mixed together. Both kids gobbled up the ice cream in no time flat but neither one gave the pumpkin much interest. As I was putting Ella to bed tonight, she had this to say:

Mommy, I don't want to eat pumpkin pie anymore. I like chocolate. And jewelry and chocolate and rings.

Chocolate and jewelry. Yeah. She's a girl alright.

cast call & a fly on the wall

The other day, Ella was leading me in one of her make believe games. I forget which characters we were meant to be but it required four parts and we were only playing with three (me, Ella and Simon.) Her only solution to this dilemma was this:

"Mom, I think you need to grow another baby."

I love how little minds work!

In other news, I overheard Ella playing with an educational toy in her room today. It's a toy that asks a question and then you push a button when you're ready to answer and the toy records you and plays back your answer. So the question came, "What would you say if you were a mommy?" I was expecting Ella to answer something like "I looove you!" or maybe "be careful". I was a little bummed out to hear her answer:

"OBEY."

I must sound like such a broken record to this girl. Bah.