1. Grandma: You are such a darling, Averi.
Averi: You're a darling too.
2. After crawling up on Grandma's lap, Averi said, "Mommy, this is sweet Gammaw."
3. Granddad (aka Papa) came home with paint on his pants and jacket after having painted some bookshelves . Averi looked at him and said, "Papa is a messy boy!"
4. Granddad was sitting in his chair. Averi sat down close to him in the child-size rocking chair that Grandma had bought the day before for Cousin Piper. She looked up at Granddad and said "Papa, talk time," and then waited expectantly for him to talk to her.
5. Averi was playing with her pull along dog named Snoopy on the floor in the kitchen while my mom and I did dishes. All of a sudden we heard her exclaim, "Oh dear! You have a messy
face again!"
6. One Saturday morning I had the following conversation with Averi when I went into the room to get her out of the crib:
Averi: Where Grandma?
Mommy: Grandma is not here. She is at yoga class.
Averi: When I big, I go in Gammaw's car, and go yoga class.
Mommy: I think Grandma would like you to go to yoga class with her. After Grandma gets
home, she will eat breakfast, take a shower, and go get your cousins, Melanie and
Piper.
Averi: Take Piper home and go out to eat.
7. We are not sure why, but Averi like's to tease Granddad (aka Papa) by withholding hugs or kisses or saying she doesn't like him all the while with her eyes dancing and a huge smile on her face. One day she and I had the following conversation related to this teasing:
Mommy: Are you going to give Papa a hug goodnight?
Averi: I no like Papa.
Mommy: Yes you do like Papa. You have been playing with him all evening.
Averi (without missing a beat): I like Papa. I no like Papa's hugs.
8. One morning, Averi and I were driving over a bridge that went over a stream and had the following conversation:
Mommy: Look, Averi! The water is moving!
Averi: The water is singing!
Mommy: It could be. The Bible says that all creation praises God.
Averi: The water singing "Boy with a Boo Boo" (This is Averi's favorite song which is about
how Peter and John heal a lame man)
Mommy: It is?
Averi: Yes, the water walking and leaping (a line from the song of what the lame man did
after he was healed)
9. During Story Time at the library, Averi got a stamp on her hand. Later I was trying to ask her about it:
Mommy: What's on your hand, Averi?
Averi (after thinking for a minute): My fingers!
10. Averi has quite an imagination and usually pretends that her different-shaped pattern blocks are bones for her stuffed dogs. One day Averi held up three of the blocks and said:
Averi: 3 bones!
Mommy: For who?
Averi: Froggy (her stuffed frog)
Mommy: I thought frogs ate bugs.
Averi (after thinking a minute): No bugs at Grandma's house. Froggy eat bones.
11. About a week and a half ago, I had to get a new cell phone because my old one fell into the bathtub while I was giving Averi a bath and died. My new phone has a QWERTY keyboard to make texting easier. However, I didn't realize how much more I must be texting until yesterday when Averi pieked up her little calculator which she pretends is a cell phone, said "I text Daddy," and started punching a bunch of buttons.
12. Today Grandma, Averi and I went shopping. Grandma was trying on some new bright red capris with little blue sailboats on them while Averi looked on from her stroller. As soon as Grandma got the capris on, Averi exclaimed, "Grandma silly pants!" Needless to say, if a two year old thought they looked silly, there was no way Grandma was going to buy those capris even if they were her favorite color.
13. Averi really likes dill pickle spears at home so today she asked for pickles on her cheeseburger at Wendy's. When she came to the pickle on her sandwich, she said, "I no like pickle. Too spicy!" (We didn't even know she knew the word spicy!)
I am sure that it is obvious that life at the Adkins Abode with Averi is never boring or quiet.
1 comment:
You have got to love her comments. This post especially shows the "anecdotes."
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