Stringing it Together

A few weeks ago Ella began using the structure of a sentence as she attempted to put words together in a series of longer than one or two. It was clear that she was beginning to understand the sentence, what it should be, and what it could be but she wasn't using her words quite right. She would say, "Aba Deeba Inga feeba cheese please," or, "Illta gonga tota tinta rooba Dewey." She was using sentence cadence and length but still just using a few words at a time. She knows a ton of words, she just wasn't ready to put them together quite right...
...Until tonight. After dinner we offered her the option to wash her own hands with the washcloth. We said, "Would you like to wash your own hands?" To which she replied in a very quiet voice, clearly only timidly trying on this new skill, "I wash my hands all by myself." Well, yes m'am you do! Go right ahead Miss 7 word sentence (one of which is a compound word)! You can wash whatever you want!
Of course this was followed by a classic 2-word sentence, "Up Pease!" and then followed by another odd string of sounds ending in a real word.
Baby steps. Toddler steps.