treasure box filler

last weekend, my niece, ellen, gave me a sweet gift to keep in my treasure box forever. here's the preface:

ellen doesn't speak very well yet. she jabbers. it sounds like she is rambling off complex sentences, but it's all in her own made-up language. once in awhile you can understand english words from her. for example, she fell down on the sidewalk last weekend at grandma's house. grandma and i were walking behind her. after she fell, she looked up at us and said "are you ok?" and then began to cry. point is, it's a very exciting time in her life as she learns to communicate with words.

here's the story:

angie put ellen and harrison to bed one night. they had a "sleepover" with sleeping bags. i peeked in to check on them and ellen had climbed out of her sleeping bag and was headed right for harrison. in a serious whisper i said, "ellen, get back in your bed." it scared her to get caught getting out of bed so she started whimpering and heading back to her bed. she laid down and looked up at me with big, pleading brown eyes and said, "Help Maimee!" I immediately went to lay down by the little angel. ;)