jo-ah

ellen has become obsessed with the name jonah. absolutely everything is jonah nowaday. today we named her absolute favorite animal, her black dog. at first i thought she wanted to call him dirt, but turns out she just saw some dirt on him. she decided to name him jonah. i'm thinking wonderful- since she obviously loves the name we'll name the dog jonah so she will call her brother by his real name (yes, we have chosen a name, and no we're not yet telling). but then tonight everything was jonah. we have a little tradition of having a family hug before she goes to bed and we talk about who is in the family. usually she'll answer, mom, dad, ellen, baby. tonight everyone's name was jonah. on another note - i don't know if i've ever mentioned this but i tend to dislike adding y's to the end of words when we talk. so a dog is a dog - not a doggy. etc. and i think ellen has started messing with me about that. (sorry if this grosses you out - but i'm going to use the word poop more than once). she tends to tell us when she's 'going to the bathroom'* and when she get's her diaper changed she frequently says poop, even if its clean. anyway, she's started saying poopy. she also really likes (demands) that i repeat whatever she just said most of the time. so in this case, i tend to change it to poop. she keeps up with the poopy over and over until i finally say it and then she laughs! i think she's messing with me. :) (* i know, i know, you moms out there are thinking hey ! time to potty train the kid! uggh. excuse me - toilet train...but i've decided we're waiting until a while after the baby is born because she'll probably just regress anyway and i'm not yet in the mood to deal with accidents while we figure that out.)