Avery’s funnies
I’ve referenced here many times how much Avery cracks us up: It’s not like she’s constantly telling jokes, but she’s a real ham (at home, at least) and constantly saying funny/witty things that leave me and Q shaking our head and laughing.
For example, I recently discovered a huge pile of the girls’ clothes sitting on their closet floor. Upon my discovery, even before I could ask them to hang everything up, Avery sighed and said, “I knew this day would come.”
Another time, not long after she was sick for a few days, I told her, “Now that you’re feeling better you have to clean up this room.” Avery’s reply? “Cough, cough.”
On a playground not long ago I saw her mumbling (I thought to herself). She saw me looking at her, walked over and casually said, “Yeh, I might have just been talking to that bird.”
She’s also very dramatic: “You don’t understand how hard it is to be a child with someone always telling you want to do,” she told me one night last week. “I just want freedom!” (This is in reaction to me asking her to empty the dishwasher.)
And, she has her own (modern) way of expressing herself. “That picture of Maddie is so cute!” Zoe commented about a photo on my phone one day. “Hashtag I know, right,” Avery chimed in.
-M