Avery is very vocal. I've had complete strangers come up and tell me how articulate she is, and how she must do very well in school (Avery is quite tall for her age). Then I tell them she's only a stone's throw older than 3 years old and they get all gob struck. Jodi and I have no reference point because this is our only child and we have limited, if any, experience in early childhood development (a Political Science major and a Physics major respectively) so these comments give us big swollen head parents of child genius syndrome. It's actually quite nice :-)
Today I dropped Avery off at her home day care place. Debbie looks after her 9 month old son, her 3 1/2 year old daughter, Avery, and a 15 month old girl named Emily. Emily just started talking and says "Hi" and "Bye" and "Avery!" when we come and go from Debbie's. Avery and Debbie's daughter don't like Emily that much because she's smaller and can't participate in all the things that they like to do. We try to get them to be civil to each other as much as possible though because Emily just wants so badly to be involved.
So any way, today I drop Avery off and Emily comes running around the corner yelling "Avery! Avery!" and Avery walks quite casually over to her and puts her hand on Emily's shoulder and says, "So Emily, how have you been?". I just about fell over. It was like a conversation you'd have with your church pastor's wife after service. "So Mary-Elizabeth, how have you been? Good, good. So happy to hear your apple pie turned out".
Then there are times where Avery is a normal 3 year old. Jodi took her on the ferris wheel at Centre Island in Toronto this weekend as as it was going round and round, on one of the coming down parts Avery looked over to Jodi and says, "Mommy, I no like this ride, it's hurting my feelings".
During a special dinner where the TV was on one night we had on a Dora the Explorer video where Dora was teaching the kids how to Mambo. At one point in the video Dora starts to sing, "Walk in place! Walk in place!" and Avery starts to move her hips in her chair mimicking someone walking in place. Avery starts to sing along, "Walk and play. Walk and play". Then Dora starts to sing, "Wiggle your hips! Wiggle your hips!" and Avery promptly tucks her hands under her arms and flaps her arms like a chicken singing, "Wiggle your pits! Wiggle your pits!". I'm telling you, Raffi couldn't even make this stuff up.
Finally, we were on our way out yesterday to get me some golf shorts and a new white shirt and Avery had eaten some blueberries before we got into the van. Jodi turns around to look at Avery once she's all buckled into her car seat and says, "Avery, you've got some blueberry on the inside of your leg". Avery looks down and says, "How did it get inside? There's no door to get in". Apparently we have yet to explain to her that inside your leg is quite different from the inside of your leg.
From the mouth of babes, eh?
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2 comments:
LOL. Kids are awesome at that age. Well... other peoples kids. ;)
My sister's 5 yr old daughter told everyone that was standing in line at JC Penny that my sister beat her. I nearly died laughing. She said it so dead pan too. (BTW-Do I have to mention it wasn't true?)
She sounds like a lot of fun, B.
=)
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