When No means Yes

Because, Ella Sue has been doing secret complex math equations in her room that are going to put quantum physics in a tailspin, she has had to put her babbling on hold. This means that Drew and I are trying to catch her up. Mamamam and Bababababa and Dadadadada fill the house. I now refer to myself in the third person all the time "Mamama is going to pick you up now....". It is odd enough talking in the third person, even weirder that the name I am calling myself is Mama. I completely understand Bob Doyles constant third person referencing, clever marketing campaign. I am hoping that if I reference myself as much as Bob Doyle did himself, then Ella will one day soon put together Mama with me. Well, to be honest she probably already does. She also gets that her name is Ella Sue. She has multiple names, Ella Bee, Baby Bear, Ella Bear, Ella sweet, she seems to understand all of them are referencing her. She has picked that up in only 8 short months. It took me a good two years and 200 cans of soft cat food to teach Fitz his name. Of course now he is deaf, so I am trying to teach him how to read it....it is taking me much longer. I am also working on teaching Ella other words, mainly No. Mostly No. No do not grab Fitz and jog him up and down. This is mainly so the SPCA people don't come to my house to remove Fitz because I have let my child snatch him bald headed. Poor thing, if I hear too much glee coming from Ella, I have to go and unwrap Fitz from her choker hold. She must have been a wrestler in another life. As with any word there are certain ways you speak it. For instance, for No to be effective it can not sound the same as snookums and suga bear. Very difficult for me when talking to Ella. My "No" to her has the same intonation as "sweetie". Needless to say Fitz would be rolling his eyes if he could, but since Ella is holding his ears back so tight, his eyes are slits, I just feel his silent prayer beaming from his brain "tell her no". So there I am trying to teach myself to say No and Ella to hear No. Because if I can ever learn to say No in a way that Ella will hear, then maybe just maybe, Fitz can say Yes to a couple more years on this earth and if not, at least get to say yes to keeping his hair.Course, I do hear the bald cats are in.