Ayudame, por favor

ellen has become a master staller when it comes to going to sleep at night. she goes to bed fine, it's the falling asleep she tries to delay. she'll talk to herself, telling stories and pretending to play with various friends. sometimes in the day, i'll go back in an hour and a half later and tell her it's really time to sleep now. and she usually will. at night, she tries various tactics to get us back in. she'll call out things like, "change my diaper change!" or "fix bob!" (bob is the sheep pillow thing she puts on top of her pillow) and when you ask, "ellen are you stalling?" she gets this big slow grin on her face. it's really quite cute. last night i went in two times to fix something and finally remembered she's stalling and decided not to go back in. she kept calling out various things, trying to get one of us back. "help with me with my blanket!" "i really want my water!" and finally, "ayudame!!! i really want my cat!" i couldn't help it i thought that was just too cute so dave went in to help her. the spanish is paying off. :) (for those of you not taking a refresher spanish course with your two year old, ayudame means help me and by the way, does anybody know how to do those upside down exclamation marks? ayudame, por favor.)