Possessive

I'm sure if we tried to correct her, and if she were a bit older, Ellie would ask: "If a ball can be:

• yours
• mommy's
• daddy's
• nanny's
• or papa's

why can't it be mines?"

But why bother with that right now? It's so darn cute when she says something is "mines" that we don't mind if she stands uncorrected for the foreseeable future. That said, issues of sharing (or not) is something we will definitely be working on sooner rather than later.

-ED