Avery's Words of Wisdom:
Avery has enjoyed reading the Aesop's Fable about the tortoise and the hare (we call it the turtle and the rabbit story). While sitting on the potty, he informs me that he will "pee pee fast like a rabbit, and sloooooow like a turtle".
He has dubbed lima beans "dinosaur beans".
The county courthouse recently placed Christmas lights around it's perimeters. Avery loves seeing it lit up at night. He says that it is "the castle" where the "king and queen live".
Avery was sick a while back, and we started the habit or rubbing Vicks vapor rub on his chest. He thought we were just finding an excuse to tickle him. Now, every night before bed, he asks for "bicks por rub" as a tactic to stall the bedtime process.
Avery and I usually wave "bye bye" to Clint as he leaves for work in the morning. I had tried explaining to Avery that his dada is a teacher, and he goes to the high school to work. Avery disagreed with me and told me that dada "goes to the YMCA, library and the park.....and I go too!!".
The sun sometimes bothers Avery while he is riding in the car. We keep an empty ice cream bucket full of toys, a hat, sunglasses and a blanket for him to use. Even with his hat and sunglasses on (usually upside down), he still complains about the sun. This week he told us that "the sun is bright, you need to turn it down!".
Fun as a Family this Week:
Clint had a birthday this week. We celebrated with homemade chocolate marble cake. Avery loved singing "Happy Birthday" to "dada" (he also added "Avery" to the song) in the dark with candles shining on the cake. Our family each had a small piece together. Avery loved the cake so much, he giggled out of sheer pleasure while eating it.
Avery loves to shake cinnamon powder on his applesauce. Sometimes we can get this picky eater to actually eat his food by letting him sprinkle cinnamon on it.
Recently, we read the story about the Gingerbread man together. Avery related the story to the gingerbread man character in the Shrek movies. I remembered that we had gingerbread men cookie cutters, so we've been finding ways to use them for fun.
