Ellie made us laugh

Here are two recent incidences where Ellie really made us laugh.

The other day, Billy was getting dinner ready in the kitchen, and when Ellie walked in, he asked her politely if she would throw something in the garbage for him. On walking back to her room, she kindly, but smartly responded, "I'm not your garbage girl!" Instead of being good parents, and teach her a lesson of respect, we decided to just laugh our ass off.

Last Wednesday evening, when she returned from Tony's, I told her that we were going to get some movies to watch that night. She was really excited about getting to go to the video store and had a couple already picked out. But we had to clean up first. The conversation went like this:
"Won't it be fun to watch movies!"
"Yes!"
"But first we have to do something."
"What?"
"We have to get the basement cleaned up."
...Pause....
"We can get movies on Sunday."
And she walked off.

Billy did end up getting both of the kids to pick up the basement, and we did get movies. But the idea that cleaning up was not worth the getting movies was hilarious!