Silliness

Ok, time to get funny. Yes, kids do say the darndest things! Avery has always been a very effective communicator - from the time she came home from the hospital, she was very chatty, making sounds non-stop, she knew 7 animal sounds by her first birthday (including owl!), and was saying 10-word sentences by Christmas of '06, when she was 19 months old (which is pretty amazing, if I do say so myself!). I know all kids come up with funny words and expressions, and these are some of Avery’s recent gems:

- Yesterday, she was wearing patchwork plaid pants to school, and my cousin, Meg, saw her and said “I love your pants, A! Jack has some like that, but his are shorts.” To which Avery replied “Yeah, mine are long-sleeved.” And I’ll interject here, one funny term Avery’s aforementioned cousin Jack has coined: “legpits,” which are found in the back of the knees.

- On Labor Day, I kept telling her that it was the last day of summer, and the last day of the Froggy Pool, where we had spent a lot of time over the summer. And that evening, Avery asked me “Mommy, remember the Good Old Days?” And I asked her which days she could possibly be referring to, and she replied, “You know, when we used to go to the Froggy Pool every day,” followed by a big sigh.

- We were in outside of Avery’s favorite diner recently, and there was a big pile of sand in one of the parking spots, and Avery wanted to play in it, and I said “Eww baby, that sand is dirty. Maybe someone spilled oil there or something.” And she said “No Mommy, I think someone spilled SAND there!” Uh, duh Mommy.

- Once, right after breakfast, she asked me if she could have some candy, and I said that she would have to wait until after lunch. She came back about 5 minutes later and asked “Mommy, can I have my lunch now???” She’s going to be a great negotiator – always working the angle.

- We were driving by a Harley Davidson dealership, and there was a big, blimp-shaped Harley Davidson balloon flying above, and A said “Oh look, a Pimp!”

- We recently got a new tire, and she wanted to know why Joe (the tire guy, and one of Avery’s boyfriends) had to take off the “nug luts.”

- I was going to a wedding this summer, wearing a strapless dress, and as I was leaning in to do A’s seatbelt, she got very worried. “Mommy!” she said, “everyone is going to see your booby tops!”

- You blow up an air mattress to use it, and then you must “blow it down” to put it away (makes sense!).

- She likes to say that she has blonde hair, but mommy's hair is "blonde" (she makes the quotes with her fingers).

- She’s voting for Oh Mama.

- Her favorite drink is Coca-ma-cola (which is the name we all use now).

- She asked me why daddy uses “washmouth” (which is a word we also use now).


So this is why my life is so good. This is who I hang out with all the time! She just cracks me up, most of the time! It makes my life silly, and so awesome.