Pretend

Yesterday, walking into the BX with Ella, she stops and holds out hands like 'claws', squinches face up and says "RRRRRR!!"
ME: Ella, are you a lion?.... A bear?
ELLA: I'm makin' an ANGRY FACE!
ME: [holding sides, laughing so hard] Yes, honey, I guess you are.

(special thanks to friend Kelly, who gave us the wonderful, I-highly-recommend-book, "I Feel Silly" by Jamie Lee Curtis, because the little girl has an 'angry' day, and I quote, "Today I feel angry, you'd better stay clear, my face is all pinched and red ear-to-ear", and when we read it, we act out this page, complete with the angry claw hands and the now-made-public "RRRRRRRR!")


Today, on the way to the car, Ella adamantly refuses to hold 'hands', but instead agrees to hold my 'Thumbkin' (thanks, grandma, for teaching her the 'Thumbkin Song', it's all 'thumbkin', all day now).

After said hand-holding skirmish, walking along contentedly, Ella proclaims, out of nowhere (as in, absolutely no sign of a cow in the parking lot) -
"Moo, moo, MOO! I'm pretending to be a cow!"

Holy cow (excuse the pun), the kid understands 'pretend' now? She never ceases to amaze me.

And so we "moo, moo, moo-d, the whole way to the car.

What a great day : )