Toddler {trash} Talk Thursday

Soooo... here we are nearing the end of the week and these City girl's are gearing up for the weekend! When I picked up Miss A today at school we headed to the cafeteria for "Dollar Dog Night" which is a little fundraiser with hotdogs, chips, cookies and school shirts. Super cute:

Cute huh? Yeah, it was.
Then we get home, get comfy. I start loading laundry in the washing machine:

Ava: "Mommy, can I help?"

I put her on the dryer to help me load. I hand her a pile and as she's throwing them in the washer a few items fall on the ground

Ava: "Oh Damnit."

ME: "What did you just say?" (stunned and stifling back laughter)

Ava" (annoyed) "I saaaid 'oh damnit' cuz I was mad."

So I then explained that we do not use that word in our house and it's not a nice word.

(Few minutes later we're on the phone with my mom)

Ava's talking to my mom and rolling around and hits her head on the wall...

Ava: "Ouch! Damn mama!"

(I grab the phone and my mom's laughing..."well Bridget, it could be worse...") True. I'm cracking up and decide to ignore.

(Putting her to bed tonight)

Ava: "Mommy, you forgot to give me honey for my cough:

ME: "Oh yeah, that's right" (I leave the room to grab honey & a spoon, it's dark & when I get back in she's talking to herself)


Ava: "Oh damnit, she forgot my honey..."

Mother of the year? Not so much.
Maybe....next year.

Ava chat...

Driving to school this morning, chattin' w/my sidekick.

Mommy: "Ava, there it is!" (Our favorite "I Spy"...the capital)
Ava: "Hi Cafeterium! Oh wait! I mean, CapitAAAL!!!!"

Mommy: "Ava, what's on top of it? What do you see?"
Ava: "Flags!!!"
Mommy: "That's right baby! What flag is on the top?"
Ava: "Oh...that's the American Idol Flag!" (American Flag)
Mommy: (CRACKING UP)
Ava: "And on bottom... It's the Dancing with the big stars flag" (aka: Texas flag with the one BIG star)
Mommy: "Good job baby!" (still laughing and dialing my mom to tell her)

Nope. Didn't correct. Statements like those make my whole day :)

SCHOOL UPDATE: Ava's had a verrrrry hard time adjusting to her new school. We love it but it's been a rough TWO MONTHS. Yes, two months. She's perfectly happy when we pick her up, it's drop off and the first part of the day. I mean, screaming, crying, "mama/daddy PUHLEESE don't go!" Yes, heart wrenching. I've had many a tear over it, many a call to MANY friends and my mom gets daily calls :) The Director and I are best buds and her teachers are so sweet. Needless to say, Ava's voice is NOT quiet so the whole staff knows her well. She's had a ton of changes the last few months so a new school can be quite the adjustment. The director keeps assuring me to be patient and she will get in her groove. Well I enrolled her in a gymnastics class every Wednesday which she LOVES (and she thinks the teacher Miss Piper's real name is Miss Nastics. No lie. She will not call her by Miss Piper and corrects me if I try. I also put her in dance on Friday's) I swear this made all the difference. We knew she would like it but she LOVES both classes. ***Today, she walked in holding my hand and when we got to the room she started to walk off and play! What?! No "hold me! don't go! I don't like (insert any staff member's name here)" None of that. So I said (shockingly) "Uhmm, ok Ava well I'm gonna go to work, bye" Ava "Bye mama, have a great day!" Floored. Two months people. Two very hard long months.

When we got home she said, "I miss my teachers mama" Ahhhh music to my ears!

Here's a few completely random pics of the little lady from the last few weeks:

Think our bud Jagger may have these. Ava's LOVES them....until she face-planted on Congress Ave. then the tides turned and she's now "frustrated" with the frogs... so they're in time-out until the don't give her boo boo's.

I got a little crafty a little early... yes, well aware Halloween is over a month away but we are decked out in our house!

Go horns!

Date night!!!!
Cheers! More to come I promise.