She's a listener!

First thing Ellie said to me when she woke up was, "Mommy, don't forget we have to bring in canned food to school so everyone can eat." tis the season. She said she wanted to help pick out good food with me at the store.

Of course this conversation turned into talking about te holidays and going to Chicago. Which she was super excited about. Here is my best memory of the running speech the whole trip to school:

"mommy, I'm going to Chicago with Daddy, we have to take a plane like when we came from Boston. My cousins live there. Remember my cousins mommy? Devon and Kyle are my big cousins. I want to play with them and their lizard again. That was fun. But they are my big cousins. I have a baby cousin too. Tristan is my baby cousin. I'm going to help him walk, because he can walk holding on to something, like my hand. Okay mommy? Mu Aunt Cindy is Tristans mom. I like Aunt Cindy too mommy. And my other little cousins William and Caroline. I liked watching Gruffalo with them mommy, that was fun. Do you think Caroline's mommy will let us watch it again...maybe we won't tell her, it's a secret. Mommy will Devon and Kyle play with me? How old are they? Are they old enough to drink soda?"

Now, the remarkable thing isn't she remembered all her cousins and their respective ages, because Ellie is good at that.

No, the remarkable thing is that she remembered the bearded lizard, "Beardy" who is Devon and Kyles pet AND that we watched Gruffalo the movie with William and Caroline last time she was in Chicago.

Her memory never ceases to amaze me.



Here she is showing me the box for canned goods at school.

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