I figured the blog was a good place to store funny little sayings that Avery comes up with. Hopefully we can look back at the posts and be reminded of cute memories we have about our son. Everyone seems to tell you when you first have a child that time will fly by so fast and to cherish each moment. Well, this is my attempt to cherish and preserve moments.
Our family went to the mall yesterday, and Clint took Avery into the men's restroom to do some business. The stall next to them was occupied. After Avery's successful attempt at the potty, Avery heard that their neighboring stall was "successful" as well. He exclaimed "Oooh! He go pee pee in the potty TOO!". Although a little embarrassed, we were very happy that at least he went.
To save time, we ate in the food court. Most kids like some of the fast food staples like nuggets or fries. Our son, being a unique individual, will barely eat those let alone home cooked food. However, of all things, he really enjoys prunes.
After the mall, we hung out at Barnes and Noble. There is a children's area that has a Thomas train track set up for kiddos to play with. At first, Avery was the only child in the area. Then, a mother of two little ones strolled up to the train track table. Avery was so ecstatic with joy to see potential playmates that he immediately ran up to the little boy and peppered him with questions. "Hi!! How are you?! I'm Avery!! What you doin'?!" etc... Once the boy warmed up to Avery he was fine and no longer scared, but it is funny to us how social Avery is for his age.
On the drive to the mall and the way back home, Avery talked nonstop - mostly entertaining himself. Clint and I just played the radio to drown him out a bit so that we could converse. On the way back, with our eyes glazed over in an attempt to be patient with our son and let him talk, Avery was trying to get our attention by saying various things "hurt". "My head hurt. My knee hurt. My eye hurt. My LUNG HURT!" He obviously heard that word in a book we recently read to him and has no idea what a lung is. It was humorous to us, however.
We took the nicer of the two cars that we own on our trip. The other car is an old 1996 red Toyota Tercel (runs great and is paid off, but nothing pretty to look at). However, in Avery's eyes, the car is "fast!" because he thinks it's our "Lightning McQueen" car.
Other "Avery-isms":
"Little help! Little help!"
"Make an Avery house!" - Clint and I will hug, standing up, and Avery crawls under in between
"I want a blue mermaid" - pink lemonade in his blue Mickey sippy cup
"truckcars" - SUV's & minivans
"Wake up it's Christmas!" - saying used to wake his parents up from sleep
