Giggly Ellie

Usually Ellie has the reputation in our family of being the mischievous quiet type. Totally alert, but not much to say. But it seems this is beginning to change--she has been quite the talker lately! Tonight she dominated the dinner conversation with great fervor discussing seemingly random details of the Christmas story, the whereabouts of our resident crocodile, (Clyde--he lives in the bathtub but often travels to other exotic locations so we don't see him very often during bath time) and why she is NOT afraid of giants.

Tonight at bedtime, during the singing time, I attempting to begin singing several different Christmas carols. Each time she would interrupt me and say, "No, no, no, no, no! I want to teach you a very SPECIAL song.... This is how it goes..... Mary rode a DONKEY, DONKEY, DONKEY!" and then doubled over laughing at how wonderful her composition was. It was, hands-down, better than any of my song choices!