Yesterday Madeline declared that she didn’t want to be a Madeline anymore.
“Oh?” I responded, remembering back to when she was three years old and asked everyone to call her Emily.
“I want to be Alinda, or Melinda, or Princess Celestia,” she beamed. “Daddy, what did you want to name me when I was born?”
“I liked the name Elise. And Kate,” he replied.
“Alisa? How do you spell that?”
“Uh-leeese. E-L-I-S-E.”
She proceeded to write “elise” on a piece of paper. As she scribbled away I told her about the time when I was eight years old and wanted my name to be Christine instead of Elizabeth. Within a matter of minutes, she’d filled the paper with potential names .”I circled Prinses Celestia because that’s my favorite.”
oh my, children are so sweet!
They can be stinkers too. 🙂
: ) Is she MadeLYN or LINE? I have a Madeline pronounced LINE. She often goes by Maddie because no one ever pronounces her name correctly… we still sometimes call her Laddle because that’s what her youngest sister used to call her years ago!
It’s “LYN”, though I rather like the “LINE” ending. I love “Laddle”, that is the cutest nickname!
I love her spelling of Elizabeth :). Her spelling of ‘prinses’ is actually how the word is spelled in Dutch.