Ellisisms

Ellis, to me, as we're walking out of the Post Office today: I don't know about you, Mama.

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Lately, Ellis is adding the word "something" to the end of a lot of her questions. Except she pronounces it "sumpin." For example, "Do you want a snack or sumpin?" "Did you take off your shoes or sumpin?"

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Ellis always reverses her 'because' statements. For example: "I'm too hot because I need to take off my socks." "I'm hungry because I need a snack."

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I mentioned to Ellis that we needed to go to the library today so we could return her books and check out some new ones. To this, she replied, "Oh that will be wonderful!"

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And Ellis has changed her name to Rapunzel, and Gabe's name to Flynn Rider. The movie Tangled occupies her thoughts most waking hours. If you call her Ellis, she will immediately correct you by saying, "I'm Rapunzel." And if I accidentally refer to Gabe as Gabe or Daddy, she immediately responds with, "Flynn is just Flynn, okay?" She never misses. She notices every. single. time. For the last month and a half.