Silly Ellie

I'm always saying that what Ellie says is so much funnier because of the way she says it.  Unfortunately I can't capture that on the blog.  The way she cuts her eyes also adds to the humor.  As  a sidenote, she also has an impressive mastery of the stink-eye.  I always tell people she was born with it.  The very first picture we took of her on the phone to announce her arrival, she had the stink eye.  I made Buck take another one that didn't look so mean.  Anyway, one thing she says that's so funny in her little voice is, "I won't".  Whenever we ask her not to do something that she's CLEARLY about to do, she says in the sweetest, most innocent voice, "I won't".  Like I said, hard to capture without her sweet little voice.
Somewhat related, but somewhat different, a funny story.  The other night I was putting the kids to bed.  Just before we said our prayers Ellie started singing a song.  She was making it up as she went.  It was about brushing your teeth, and probably whatever alse came to mind.  At the end, she finished with (as I heard it clear as a bell), "Ahhh SH&#!".  Her language is always pretty clear to me, but I was taken aback a bit.  Surely I hadn't quite understood correctly, so I asked her what she said.  She repeated it again...as clear as day, "Ahhh SH&#!".  I asked at least 5 or 6 times, not making a big deal about it, but just in a confused, "I didn't quite catch that" way.  Each time she repeated it more clearly than the last.  I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out what else she could be saying, or where she had heard that.  Fortunately Eve walked in right then.  I asked Eve what Ellie was saying.  Without skipping a beat Eve replied, "All set!".  Whew!