Tonight, Ellie sat in my lap before bedtime and ate her "Monster" cheese.  She's recently learned that Milk and Cheese are loaded with calcium and that gives her strong bones.  So now, every night after she finishes her bedtime cheese snack, she stands up in front of me and asks if she's growing bigger.  See she wants to be tall so that she can play basket ball with her cousin Brandon.  (so she tells us)

This evening, as I agreed she was a tiny bit bigger, she dropped back down to her knees in my lap, curled over to her side, wrapped around my arm, and said, "I'm going to be bigger like you mama.  I'm going to BE a mama."  So I asked her if she wanted to be a mama someday.  She nodded yes.  Next I asked her how many kids she would like to have...she whipped out her famous two finger hand gesture....then added the third (because we've been practicing for her upcoming birthday) then four fingers....then five!  She went on to tell me how she would keep them all in her room.  I asked her if she planned on going to work, so that she could buy them food, clothes and toys.  She was real quite as she slowly, and unsurely responded "ya."  Then I offered, "would you like mommy and daddy to keep working to pay for everything?"  she once again, quietly and hesitantly said, "that would be good."

This conversation was cute.  Like most of our quiet bedtime chats...its my favorite part of the day.

But!  the conversation did not end there.  Next she tells me that she has Puppies in her tummy.  This of course comes hot on the heels of a very involved conversation on what happened to Maggie (she was Spayed)  I asked her what kind of puppies she was having and she told me Chihuahuas and Bulldogs!  Then, without thinking, I asked her how they were going to get out of there?!  I cringed as the words fell out of my mouth and I could not stop them...I worried where this conversation would lead, since the spaying one joyfully took us down the ovaries road and before I knew it, we were both staring in grotesque at pictures of canine ovaries on line.  Thankfully, she replied, "they will dig a hole!"  I was smart enough not to ask anything further.

She then became quiet as I assumed she was drifting off to sleep.   The first quarter of the LA / Celtic's game 3 of the Finals came to an end and they showed some slow-mo close ups of the big
name players, and she yells out, "Oooo!  There's Rondo!  He's my favorite guy!!"

 oh....I love her!