sister<\/a> before her, Avery has become quite familiar with “no, no, no.” The other day, she started climbing on a chair and – knowing this isn’t something she’s supposed to do – shot me a mischievous look. Then, before I could even open my mouth, she smiled, waved her finger and said, “No, no, no.”<\/p>\n-When glancing in the rear-view mirror the other day, I noticed that Avery’s eyes were getting heavy. Wanting her to nap, I turned off the baseball game I was listening to and put on one of her quiet CDs. The plan backfired, though: As soon as she heard Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Avery’s eyes popped opened and she started clapping. (Not what I was going for!)<\/p>\n
-Avery became particularly fond of a bag of trail mix while shopping with me at Trader Joe’s last Friday. When it came time to pay and hand the bag to the cashier, Avery got really upset: red face, big crocodile tears. Even after the cashier (quickly) handed back the bag, Avery continued to cry – presumably traumatized that someone had tried to take the bag from her. I felt sorry for the cashier – a college-aged girl whose own face turned red over the situation – but I couldn’t help but laugh at how dramatic Avery can be.<\/p>\n
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Usually it’s Zoe who does the funny things (and gives me fodder for this blog), but Avery’s also done her share of entertaining recently. A few stories: -Just like her sister before her, Avery has become quite familiar with “no, no, no.” The other day, she started climbing on a chair and – knowing this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-51-two-kids-october-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6388,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}