Ella-isms

The days fly by so quickly and soon she will be seven.  Seven!  A number I can hardly imagine.  Two and three seem so far, and yet so close in my memory.  Tonight, I found a notebook page with a scribbled list of some of her expressions and words from those early years.  Share a laugh with me and think back to that cherub-cheeked girl with the golden curls...

• stick lips = chop sticks
• fridgelator = refrigerator
• Barnes & "Notebook" (her favorite store back then)
• Big Locks = Big Lots
• ellalator = elevator
• ellabrella = umbrella
• ellabody = everybody (are you sensing a pattern here?)
• spill out = throw up
• spend = spend the night ("I want to spend with Memaw tonight!")
• target = guitar ("Mommy, are you gonna play your target?")
• Peanut Butterina = Prima Ballerina (on a t-shirt she wore)
• birthday cakes = pancakes
• pennies = panties
• crap = craft ("Mommy, can we do a crap today?")
• ponies = ponytails
• dip in it = dip (her description for any kind of condiment)
• syrpup = syrup
• askident = accident ("Mommy, I had an askident!")
• talent show = hotel
• sketti = spaghetti
• copterpillar = helicopter
• sauches = sausage
• meches = message

Tonight, I cannot think of her, all grown-up, going into 2nd grade.  Tonight, I choose to remember her younger days and wish, for a moment, that she could stay this way forever.