My sweet "baby" girl, is now FOUR years old!

Where has the time gone?

So I was vacuuming today, and I happened to look up at the wall, and this little face greeted me. Kind of creepy, but I'm 99.9% sure Ava did it, haha (there's still that .01% that's creepy because of the letters/numbers that randomly appeared on the wall several months ago...childlike writing, green crayon...but Ava can't write letters or numbers yet...never did solve that one). She says she did it (she says "Look, and I gave him a mop" pointing to some of the stuff under the face, haha)...it's a little out of her reach, but I assume she used the step stool that's normally in the bathroom.

Not a bad face considering what her "moose" looked like not long ago. :o) I actually had to call Mike and ask him if HE drew on the wall before I really believed Ava did it.

The pictures are hard to see... it's yellow chalk on a beige wall, so...yeah.

• Ava's been in bed since about 7 tonight... I don't know if she actually fell asleep again (she took a late nap on the couch), but she was quiet. She just came down to use the potty (she just haaaas to tell me when she has to, lol, it's funny)... took care of that, tucked her back in and she says "Mommy my tummy was just growlin'! Growlin' and growlin' for a banana." LOL... so we came downstairs, had a banana, and she's back in bed. Silly girl.
• To go with her having to tell me when she has to go potty, the other morning I woke up early to her in our bed, sound asleep. When she woke up and I asked her why she came to our bed, she said because "I was TRYING to tell you I had to go potty! But you wouldn't wake up!" Ohhh... so, did she go potty, I asked? "No, 'cause you wouldn't wake up. I just got in your bed and went to sleep." Ooookay, then. :o) She will actually go in to the bathroom, remember that she didn't tell me, and run back out to tell me before going back in to go... lol.
•  So, the other day in the car, Ava asked for her baby (doll). I asked her which one, and she replies "The one that doesn't talk." ??? Well, she has lots of dolls, and none of her dolls talk (well one did, but it needs new batteries). Soooo, I'd like to know what all her other dolls are talking to her about, haha.
• Ava picks up a toy phone, "Hello?? You wake me up. You know that? Okay. Bye!" ::sigh:: "It was a telemarker." (yes, telemarker, lol) 
•  The girls are sitting on my bed watching a movie while I am cleaning upstairs, I hear this: Ava: Charlotte! Did you touch my flip flop? Charlotte: Yeah. Ava: Why? Charlotte: 'Cause. Ava: Well. Hold on. I go tell mommy. ::pitter patter of little feet:: Ava: Mommy, Charlotte touch my flip flop and IT WAS MINE! r.o.f.l.
• And my kids aren't the only funny ones around here... only I'm a different kind of funny than they are, lol. The dryer attacked me today and it was totally my fault. I opened the door really fast, and stuck my arm in to grab clothes... well I went in at an angle and my arm got caught on the... the things that stick out to help tumble the clothes. Pulled my arm with it and squished it at the top of the dryer door. OW. It was all red for a bit and now that's gone but it still hurts.

The other day, I was watching TLC, and a commercial for What Not to Wear came on. Ava immediately said "Mommy! You should be on that show!" I just laughed and said "I should? Why?" and she said "So you can look wonderful!" lol

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Last night, she asked in her own roundabout way to go to bed all by herself ::sniffle:: "Mommy, I will go upstairs to lay in my bed to sleep, and you go do laundry. But you check on me later, okay?" Tucked her in, sat with her a minute, she said I could go do the laundry now, and she actually went to sleep. :o)

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Charlotte grabbed a pretzel out of thing of snack mix and I said "Heyyy, that's mine!" just playing around, so she licked it, set it in my lap, and said "Here. Eat this," and got a new one, LOL

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Mike and I were "arguing" about something today (just joking around) and Ava said "Hey you two guys, no fighting!" hahaha

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The other day in Kmart, we were in the aisle with the paper goods, Charlotte all the sudden squealed "NAKED BUTT!" and she was just so tickled, saw what she was looking at, it was the baby on the Angel Soft packages :o)