Three Cheers for Ellie

As I was cleaning up the house I found little touches of Ellie all over the place. I guess she likes to leave a little part of her here so we don't miss her so much when she's at school. Seeing as it's her birthday week, I thought I'd share a few of the little things that make me laugh.

1. Ellie actually mocks my love for American Idol every Tuesday night, but I guess she took pity on me this week and decided to draw me pictures of the judges. Dustin and I were laughing at how "Pola" was a little more glam than poor Kara. I was totally impressed that she knew their names.

2. Where else would you put your new hair bows? Why put them in the drawer where you can never see them? I'm always finding touches of Ellie "decorating" all over the house.

3. Ellie got sent to time out the other night, which is a corner by our front door. I guess there was a dead bug over there and she was kind of upset about having to sit there. Being the mean mom that I am, I told her she was in time out and she could either live with the dead bug or pick it up and throw it away herself. The next noise I hear is Nate running around celebrating the fact that he had some money and he was going to go buy himself some bubble gum.

"Mom, look at my money."
"Where did you that get money?"
"Ellie gave me money for throwing away the dead bug."
She's a smart cookie! Of course her planned backfired later when Nate found a dead fly, threw it away and ran up to inform Ellie that he now owed her more money. I think he earned a whole 50 cents last night.