Flowers for Mama
Last weekend we went to Target and bought the last Disney Princess kite they had and took Ava to the park to fly a kite for the first time. She'd seen someone flying one a few weeks ago and had been wanting to fly one ever since. When we got to the park the wind was pretty strong and after watching Tony struggle a bit to control the kite we were sure Ava wouldn't really be able to fly it that day. But we let her have a go at it, fully expecting to see our $3 purchase fly off into the sun when she let go. Boy were we wrong! As you can see in the video below she hung on to that kite and kept it from crashing like a pro. And when her arms got tired she just handed it over to Tony. We might have to upgrade to an $8 kite from Costco soon . . .
I have two favorite anecdotes about Ava right now. The first happened about a couple weeks ago. Earlier that morning Ava was asking me about the spaceship in one of her puzzles and I telling her a little about space travel and that if she wanted to, she could become an astronaut and fly into space when she got older. A couple hours later Madelyn and I were in the kitchen and Madelyn was sitting her in Chicco Hook-On highchair at the island and Ava came running up to her and said, "Madelyn, you wanna go to outer 'pace? You be a baby acronaut. Yeah? Alright." And the deal was done. I still laugh at that one. Ava is always asking Madelyn questions and then answering them for her, "Yeah? Alright." I guess I must say that a lot.
And the second one happens every time I take Ava with me into a public restroom. Most recently in the bathroom at Target. I help her use the toilet and when she's finished it's my turn. After which Ava (facing me with her back to the stall door) leans forward with clasped hands and says, "Yay Mama you go pee pee! I am SO proud of you again!" HAHA! It's feels so great to be a hero to your children . . .
Oh and I guess there's three because yesterday there was a bag of raisins on the table and Ava was snagging some and I told her not too (she'd already eaten a fair share at lunch). The next time I turned around I caught her with her with one hand in the bag, but the other hand covering her eyes so that I wouldn't see her. Because everyone knows if you can't see anything other people can't see you either. Classic.
We taught Ava how to hold up two fingers and say "Peace". Only she decided that instead of two "pieces" she only wants to hold up one "piece". So every time we tell her to say "peace" she holds up her one pointer finger and says "one piece". And if I try and show her that she needs to hold up two fingers, she tells me, "No Mama, just one piece."
Last week she had her first dream that she told me about. She got up that morning and said, "The girl Mama. She go pique, pique (ballet moves) and then she go plie, plie." I asked her if the girl was in her dream while she was sleeping and she said, "Yeah, and a monkey in my bed eating a 'nana. A black monkey." The monkey in the bed is a reoccurring dream because the other night she woke up in the early morning hours crying a little. I went in and comforted her and helped her get back to sleep. The next morning I asked her is she remembered being sad in the night and what made her sad and she said, "The monkey in my bed eating a 'nana." She said he was a happy monkey so maybe she was just crying because she didn't want to share her bed . . .
Because of a game my mom played with Ava while she was here, where she'd put her face really close to Ava's and place her hands on the side of both their faces, and then tell her a story about "Grandma Bear in the cave", Ava frequently walks around the house with her eyes closed saying, "I in a cave. I in a cave." I'm sending any bills for split lips or busted heads from falling or crashing into walls while her eyes were closed to my mom.
Madleyn enjoying the warm sun at the park.
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