The Lioness

Last night Elle watched to Lion King for the first time. So today she has been walking around the house roaring like a Lion.
Earlier she and Clare were up in me & Wade's room jumping on the bed and I hear Clare crying. I go upstairs and poor Clare can hardly talk because she is crying so hard so I ask Elle if she jumped on Clare. She flops down on the pillow and looks at me and says "No, I not jump on her.... I just bite her". So I checked and sure enough she has a red mark on her leg. I threaten Elle with a day long time-out, make sure Clare is ok and walk out of the room.
A little while later I was in the basement looking for something and Elle comes roaring into the room saying "I'm a Lion!" She walks up to me and hugs me and bites my leg! Grrrrr, those little teeth are razor sharp and if I wasn't holding a pile of stuff in my arms I might have hit her it hurt so bad. I ask her if she wants me to bite her back so she can see how it feels. She says no, runs away from me and jumps on the couch to hide behind Wade.

Then this afternoon, I was upstairs and she and Clare were downstairs coloring at the table. I hear the bucket of crayons dump out on the floor and Clare yells "Momo, Ellie Bell dumped the crayons!" a couple of times and then I hear Elle matter-of-factly say "Momo can't hear you". I was cracking up until I had a vision of my sweet-faced, brown-eyed darling standing on top of some kid's head and saying "Your mommy can't hear you..."

Yikes, I better stop this little lion in her tracks before someone really gets hurt.