Ava Update

I am proud to say that we have done a pretty good job of getting Ava's total meltdown's under control.  She still has her moments but it's been a few weeks since we've had a complete meltdown.  Now if we can just get her to stop talking over us and to ALWAYS behave in public...yeah right.  :)

She loves her behavior chart and getting stickers for good deeds.  When her chart is full she gets a special treat.  It gets her to focus on her good behaviors and what she should be doing instead of us always focusing on the bad ones.  Got the idea from a mommy friend and was pleasantly surprised to see it work!  When we ask her why she got a sticker she says "for hayvin"

She spends most of her day following me around saying "mommy will you play with me, mommy let's play, mommy play with Ava"  and I mean she follows me EVERYWHERE even to the bathroom.  Each morning when Brynn goes down we have play or project time and she loves that!  When we do playtime she spends most of it bossing me around and reprimanding me for not playing right.  Boy would I like to be a fly on the wall when she starts preschool next week! 

Funny things Ava says or does:

She likes to work on things around the house like a handy man and says "look mommy we the handy mannys!"

She was disobeying Steve the other day and I told her that daddy was the boss and she needed to do what he said.  She said "but I don't want daddy to be da boss mommy, I want you to stay da boss"  After holding in a roaring laugh, I said "Why don't you want daddy to be the boss" and she said "cuz Ava wants daddy to stay happy"  insert wah wah music here.  I guess mommy isn't happy.  LOL

Last week I asked her to come downstairs so I could get her dressed and she yelled down to me "mommy you drivin me nuts, just ask Ava nicely...say Ava come downstairs please"  that was almost a direct quote of what we tell her when she whines.  I swear she's a little tape recorder!  For the record I WAS asking her nicely. 

Courtney and I went to lunch and the waitress asked Ava if she was a good big sister and if she helped mommy feed the baby and Ava looked at her chest and said "no I can't, I don't have any milk in my booves"

Steve never gets Ava's pajamas matched correctly and this drives me nuts.  I even fold them and arrange them in order so that it makes it easy for him to just pick the matching PJ's and put them on her.   Ava has picked up on that too because he finally got it right last week and she said "mommy, daddy should get a sticker for matching my pj's right!  Good job daddy" 

Meet baby Cole

All of her babies are named Cole or Brynn.  The smallest ones are Cole and the bigger ones are Brynn.  She also has a new imaginary sister named Annie.  At first Annie was invisible but she's now given her smurfette doll the role of Annie.  hmmmm wonder where she go that name from.  Memaw is watching over her I'm sure :)

Well I must run...I'm being summoned to play again.

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