I can't believe that my baby girl is almost three! I want to remember a few of my favorite moments from this year so please bear with me as I write down some Averyisms.
We got Avery a cash register last spring and she LOVES to play Grocery store. About a month ago she started taking all the food out of the cupboards to "buy". One day she was playing with a jar of spaghetti sauce and decided it would make a good baby (what an imagination!). For the next three weeks she did everything with her baby Saucy. She pushed it in the stroller on our walks to the park (we got some funny looks), she tucked it in bed and sang to it, she took it on car rides and put Saucy's seat belt on, and then Saucy even had a baby! Avery found a little jar of salsa that she adopted as Saucy's baby and named it Ryan. Most girls play with dolls, mine plays with spaghetti sauce and salsa! Hey, whatever works!
Andy has an uncanny ability to lose things and luckily Avery has the uncanny ability to remember things. So, Andy lost his wallet and looked everywhere for it for about a week. He couldn't find it anywhere. One day in desperation he said "Avery, I'll give you Five bucks if you can find Daddy's wallet." She didn't really think much of it at first. Then, a few days later I randomly asked Avery (out of desperation again) if she knew were Daddy's wallet was. She casually said "Ya, it's in his tool box." I shrugged it off thinking she was just making it up. That night, Andy was looking for his wallet again. I told him that Avery said it was in the toolbox. He thought He was pretty sure it wasn't there, but he decided it was at least worth checking. So, he went into the garage, and there it was! Most of you are probably thinking that she PUT it there. But, nope. Andy had helped his friend move a swing set the week before and set his wallet in his tool box. Andy forgot that he had promised Avery money, but she sure didn't. After he found it she went up to him and said "Where's my five bucks!" We still don't know HOW she knew where it was! But it's a good thing she found it!
We went to the mall to visit the Easter bunny, but the Easter bunny wasn't there. Avery was really sad because she wanted to make sure that he knew she wanted her very own camera. Later that day we went for a walk and saw a bunny rabbit in the grass. We tip toed as close to the bunny as we could to get a good look. Then the bunny started to hop away. Avery started running after it and yelling "Please bring me a camera Easter Bunny! Bring me a camera!"
One day I needed to go to the grocery store and I really wanted Andy to come with us, but he didn't want to go. After begging a few times, we left without him. On the way to the store Avery was incessantly asking me why Daddy didn't come with us. I kept saying "I don't know Avery, I don't know." Finally after the hundredth time of asking I said "Why don't you call your Daddy and ask." So I dialed Andy's cell phone and handed Avery the phone. When he answered she said "Daddy, why you being a stinker bum?" Of course Andy thought that I told her to say that, so he didn't think it was very funny, but I was laughing so hard!!
