Cru-Ella de Vil

Ella breaks into the graham crackers she snatched off the counter by standing on the cooler

Our Cinder-Ella has a new nickname these days thanks to her Uncle Dave.  In what seems like an overnight transformation, Ella has become a pint sized menace.  She climbs on tables, dumps water glasses, colors on her clothes with the markers she finds in corners and crevices and helps herself to cereal, granola bars and anything else stored at her height.  She's become an escape artist and can sense an open door from anywhere in the house.  She also loves to throw things away--mostly things she finds in cupboards and laundry baskets.  Once, we even found her dear friend Elizabeth in the trash can.  

So David has been brushing up on her villainous theme song and serenading us.  And I'm smiling for now.  However, I am remembering a certain hated nickname David gave Tara that never completely went away and am thinking that I may have to insist on plain old Ella (the menace) pretty soon.