Ella's Fake Life

Ella has a great imagination.  I've mentioned before, that I love to sit and listen to her play with her toys.  The stuff she says, cracks me up.
For instance, tonight, she was pretending that she was making donuts.  She was talking to an imaginary person about the donuts and said, "this is so romantically weird."
Romantically weird?  That's a new one...now, I will have to try to think of some other things that I can describe as "romantically weird."

While she was playing this game, she turned to me and said, "Mommy, I've found a boy I want to marry!"

I said, "You have?  Who is it?"

Ella:  "Well, in real life, I want to marry Aidan.  But in fake life, I want to marry Sun Slice."

Me:  "Wow, what an interesting name."

Ella:  "Yes, it's because he's like scissors."  (Huh?)

Me:  "Well, what is it about Sun Slice that makes you want to marry him?"

Ella:  "He eats wildly.  Just like me.  Moon Slice is nice but he eats all calmly, so I don't want to marry him."

So, there you have it.  The girl's got standards!  It's a start anyway.

On another note---you maybe, just maybe, have a strong willed, controlling child if she spends half the day telling your dog that he is panting the wrong way.  (Apparently, Ranger likes to pant with his tongue hanging out to the side of his mouth.  Ella thinks he should only pant with his tongue hanging out the front of his mouth.)  She finds it completely exasperating that we cannot get this dog to pant the right way.  Maybe he's just too romantically weird for front of the mouth panting.