This week we were walking to the pool with Dawson in the stroller and the two big kids trailing behind me. I was listening to their conversations with each other and Ava said the sweetest thing: "Carter, I like you. You are my brother and you play with me. That makes me happy." Seriously melt my heart.
Ava is a walking, breathing depiction of the saying "kids grow up so fast." Recently she has asked me when can she drive, have a cell phone that works, keys, and a bikini. You are only three! Slow down! She is also such a quintessential girl, which I'm so glad to have in my life, but I must admit there are times that I praise God for only having one girl. I really don't think that I could handle another! This week we were walking out the door to go to a soccer game and she began bawling. I scrambled to help her, but it turns out she was just upset because she didn't like her hair. Another example: we were sitting at the breakfast table and I was reading a first words book to Dawson. There was a picture of rain boots and she looked at it and started bawling. What in the world could be wrong? She was upset because she thought she lost her rainbow rain boots. How could she go on without rainbow rain boots, oh the drama. I had to explain that the rainbow rain boots do not fit her anymore, and I passed them on to her new baby cousin. Thankfully, she was happy with this explanation as long as I promised to get her new rain boots.
Today we went to the library and afterwards visited a park for a picnic lunch and to run off some energy. At the library Ava had been waiting on the sequel to one of the chapter books we recently read her called The Sugar Plum Fairies. Today the sequel arrived and she began looking at the pictures on the cover and told Carter "These are the Sugar Plum Fairies, they are best friends and they live in Harlem. This is Brenda and Al." Her memory shocks me at times. I really didn't know how much she was absorbing and remembering, but I guess it was more than I thought!
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