Little Bunny Ava

 

 

This week at school, Ava learned about Easter. The real meaning. And learned about bunnies. I picked up her up from school with her face painted as a bunny. She thought she looked awesome! Thanks Jess-it was a huge hit!!!

Jokes on me!

Before I get into this post let me announce that I am fully aware of the many things I need to blog about. I will get to them... EVENTUALLY!

So, on to this post. Jokes on Me! In light of the recent April Fools Day I thought it would be fun to do a little bit of a different dinner. The girls are getting older now and starting to 'get' things. I told the girls that we were going to have a "Silly Dinner" when dad got home.

Josh walks in the door, and I ask him if he will take the girls and himself into the other room while I finished up dinner. (because he didn't know what I had planned either- and I wanted it to be a surprise)

I had planned all day on making 'Cupcakes and Ice cream' for dinner. (remember, Ava calls it asscream). The joke of it is that the 'cake' part is actually meatloaf with mashed potato 'frosting'. (I made the frosting hot pink and orange for my hot pink and orange lovin' girls) I over steamed cauliflower, mashed it and scooped it out to look like Ice cream. Really, I was quite excited about the meal; as it turned out pretty darn cute if I may say so myself.

ANYway, I told the fam they could come into the kitchen and asked the girls if they would please move their art projects off of the table.

As soon as Mimi walks into the kitchen she says "OOOOOOh cupcakes! Can I have one after dinner, please Please PLEASE?"

My response?"Why sure you can."

As the girls are cleaning off the table, Josh 'gets' it and starts putting food onto the plates. This is when it all starts going downhill. REALLY.

Ava notices and yells out "NO, dad! Those are for after dinner. That is dessert. Mimi can have one after dinner. Mom said that Mimi could have a cupcake AFTER dinner. Not NOW. DAD.... NOOOOO."

Josh and I just kind of laugh about this and keep going about our business.

Ava continues to yell "DAAAAAAAD... NOOOOOO. That is not dinner. Those are for AFTER. You can't have a cupcake before. You have to have DINNER FIRST!"

Josh asks Ava "What color would you like, Pink or Orange?"

Again, "Dad. I'm serious. Those are for dessert."

AND THEN SHE STARTS CRYING.

The poor little girl is really crying because we are trying to feed her a cupcake for dinner. OH MY GOSH!

Mimi meanwhile, is just staring at the cupcakes and asking Josh to bring hers to her. She WOULD eat it. Saying "Dad, I'll eat mine. I want the pink ones. I don't mind. Really. I'll eat it!"

We all sit down with our plates loaded with Cupcakes and ice cream and .....we have prayer... all the whilst Ava is STILL crying.

We say Amen and Mimi digs in.... it totally gives her the rigors. She yells out "Mom, there is something wrong with this icing. It doesn't taste right. OH wait, I know why... it's cause its warm. Icing isn't supposed to be warm!"

Bless Emery's heart. That hot pink stuff was just calling to her. She can't pass it up. Every time she takes a bite, it gives her the shakes. BUT it's PINK!!!!

Ava, who is still crying, is just sitting there. Looking at us. Staring at us. Disgusted by the fact we were eating a cupcake... INSTEAD OF DINNER. I look over at her and say in the nicest voice I can muster

"Ava, honey. Eat. Take a bite before I MAKE you eat it." Ava looks at me, as I'm giving her 'the look', dips her finger into the 'icing' and licks it. She basically gags on it and then yells, pretty much as loud as she can.... "MOM..... I can NOT believe it. This does N.O.T. taste like assing. Y.o.u. messed up the RECIPE! I can NOT believe it."

Josh now looks at Ava and says "YOU, young lady do NOT talk to your mother like that. Do you understand?"

Emery, still going to town on the 'weird pink stuff that doesn't taste quite right' gets the the cupcake part and yells out "MOM, there is MEAT in here!!!! Awesome!"

At least one of the girls liked it!

Ava did not eat her dinner. She took a few mandatory bites of the cupcake and a few bites of the ice cream.

Like I said... Jokes on me!

All day today she kept saying "Mom, I really don't want any of those cupcakes, k?"

Maybe I have totally turned her from cupcakes all together!

(NOW. Now I think this is quite hilarious. NOW. But last night. OH last night. I did NOT think it was very funny. At all. As you see, I had already had a REALLY bad day. Then I put a lot of time and effort into this 'fun and silly' meal for my family and then for Ava to yell at me. Oh that girl!)

The "P" Party

The girls were invited to an all "P" party! They could wear anything starting with the letter P, they ate Pizza, played Playdough, and played with puzzles. The girls were super excited and had a BLAST! Mimi wore her Pink Piggy Pajamas and Ava was a Princess!!!! Thanks Anderson Family for the fun night out!!!

CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS Josh!!!!!

Josh got accepted to the Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Program at UT Southwestern in Dallas! We will be moving back to Texas June, 2011!!!! We are so proud of Josh and all of his hard work!!! Love you, babe! Way to go!!!!

More Slave Labor

They really do like to help. My theory is to take advantage of it now. Soon a day will come where they don't want to help and I am not going to be okay with that!

Ava's Cast

Finally the day came-to have her cast taken off! She was THRILLED!!!! It stunk to high heaven!

Unfortunately, she had to have another cast put on. It was a shorter cast (meaning it didn't go over her elbow) She chose purple this time. She had it on for 1 month. That one also stunk when it was taken off! She came home and soaked in the bath for over an hour... her choice, not just mine! Ava just kept saying "Mom, it just feels soooo good!"

AND ITS A......................

Girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's right folks!!!!!!!!!!! Full on Pink....... and Orange!!!!!!!!!! Ava and Emery are thrilled! They can't wait to see her and hold her and help!!!!!! Ava is very concerned about her binkies she will need and Mimi is convinced she is going to have Pink hair!!!!!!!!! Josh and I are very excited to bring another girl into our family and our home. I told Josh it was such a blessing because we will be able to save soo much money this year by not having to buy all new boy stuff. Although, thinking about it now, its going to cost more in the long run!!!!!!!! OH DEAR... THE DREADED TEENAGE YEARS!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH