New Eleanor-isms

These are all just from this morning!

• Gesturing around at the inside of our house, "This is MYYY house.  It's not Mama's house, but my house!"  (She knew she was being funny.)  Me: "Oh really?  How much money did you pay for it?"  "I paid lots of dollars!"  "How many dollars?"  "I paid FIVE dollars!"  Oh, if only...  :)
• In the car, passing a restaurant with a large American flag outside:  "There's a flag!  It's a gigantic flag!'  "Yes Eleanor, that's our country's flag.  You know, our country has a birthday in July and you have a birthday in July!"  She thought for a minute, started to laugh, and said, "But it doesn't have a mouth so it can't eat cake!"
• We went to Target and I had a list but I knew there was one thing I forgot to write down.  I explained this to Eleanor and told her that I was trying to remember what else I needed.  She gave me helpful suggestions that we really did need (avocado, for example), but I told her that I was planning to get those things at our next stop at Publix.  Then she got a big smile on her face and said, "I know what it was!  A great, BIG dinosaur!"  She was holding 2 of her dinosaurs in the shopping cart with her and I know what she meant was that she wanted me to buy her more dinosaurs.  :)  So funny!
• Somehow we ended up talking about Halloween yesterday and I told her what she's been for the past 3 years.  (pea pod, strawberry, black cat)  Today she told me that she wants to be a Dilophosaurus for Halloween this year, and that I should be a Tyrannosaurus Rex, Hunter should be a "flying dinosaur" (Pterodactyl), and Arthur should be a "spine-o-saurus" (aka Stegosaurus).  I'm halfway tempted to try to make it happen just because it would be so funny!

Of course, there aren't any Arthur-isms yet, but he's working on it!  I'm almost convinced that he's been trying to say Eleanor's name whenever he sees her.  Also, whenever I nurse him I call it "leche" and there have been several times lately that he has made a sound like "eh-che" when he is about to nurse.  A few times he's even pulled off and said it and then gone back to nursing.  It's not consistent though, and sometimes I think I'm just imagining it.