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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Fairness


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Ava-ese



A new language has sprouted up in our small Indiana home. This endemic tongue is created on-the-fly by the one and only Ava. She is becoming quite the prolific speaker. We don't have a clue what she's saying, but it's clear that she understands it. Each syllable is articulated with regards to inflection and tone. Sometimes she even throws in a little accent to throw us off. Ask anyone in our D-team (church small group) and they'll tell you that she adds a southern twang on occasion.

The baby bouncer has found new life and purpose in its rediscovery by our little chatter-box. Ava grabs her favorite Cabbage Patch doll and climbs into the bouncer. Instead of comfortably laying in it, she holds the African-American baby while sitting hunched over so she doesn't fall back. As she starts bobbing her head and bouncing she begins to chant, "diga-diga-diga-diga-diga-diga-diga....," with no end in sight. The speed at which she can make her tongue see-saw to make this sound is amazing. I can say it at her speed for several seconds, but I soon get tongue fatigue and begin to slow. Baby girl has endurance. She carries on like this as long as she likes without showing a hint of slowing down. Occasionally she'll interrupt her steady pace with an always pleasing screech and squeal of joy.

She doesn't seem to want to speak a lot of what we would understand, but its clear that she understands us. It's almost as if she just discovered her tongue and is on a personal mission to make every possible sound with it. I'm confident that her having a solid understanding of the basics will cause her to linguistically explode when she does decide to speak discernible English.

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Simple Pleasures

We'll be going to a dinner soon where you're either supposed to wear a hat or a mask, so last night we stopped by a party store to pick up some masks. When we got back out to the car, Doni opened the package to try one on. Knowing that Ava is easily entertained by novel things, she slowly raised the mask up to her face and, in her Zorro-esque beauty, briskly turned around to face Ava. If you had only seen Ava's face, you would have thought she was being tickled by a dozen clowns slipping on banana peels. Apparently this was the funniest thing Ava had experienced in her short life.

She laughed and laughed and laughed. When she would catch her breath she would yell for more. She literally laughed until she cried! It was impossible to not join her in laughing. I can only imagine if someone had looked into our car on the highway... The three of us laughing, a masked Doni, and a joyfully crying baby.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Events to Enrich Our Lives

Experiences we've had with Ava over the last couple weeks:
  1. The time she spilled a glass of water on my plugged in and turned on (thankfully CLOSED) laptop. Oh boy. Those were good times.
  2. Shaking her groove thing daily when The Backyardigans comes on. Conversely, I get chills up my spine when this happens.
  3. Her ever increasing speed with walking. She frequently joins us in the kitchen when we're making dinner and latch on to your leg like an anchor. Put her back in the living room and she'll nearly beat you back to the kitchen. This has caused multiple double-takes because of the shear impossibility of it. We've tried having one of us be in the kitchen while the other entertains her elsewhere, but apparently the kitchen is THE place to be.
  4. Her first bloody lip.
  5. Her first time biting her tongue while falling and making it bleed.
  6. I was gone for three days and when I saw her again she had suddenly become content with wearing sunglasses. She looked like the Malibu-based version of my daughter! What happened to our customary tug-of-war where we try to put them on your face while you try to pull them off? She's growing up so fast.

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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Father's Day Dinner


Pretty in Purple, originally uploaded by Ava's Antics.

After church we went out to eat for Father's Day (yeah, I know, a week early). Having gone to the second church service, we were pretty hungry by the time we left. We went to O'Charley's and quickly ordered Ava some brunch to calm her vocal hunger. She had eggs, potatoes, and toast. Her favorite - the toast. She held her half-slice in her right hand nearly the entire time we were there. She would take minuscule nibbling bites of it time after time. Sometimes it would make you wonder if she was really getting anything or just chewing a big mouth full of nothing.

Not wanting to put the toast down, she tried stabbing her potatoes like she would with her fork at home. Doni told her that it doesn't work that way. Ava promptly proved her wrong when she pulled up a piece of potato on the edge of her toast.

Later, Doni put some of her carrots on Ava's plate. Shortly after we noticed that the 4-5 pieces that she was given had disappeared. "She must have liked those," we thought out loud. Doni cut up some more and put it on her plate. Ava reached for them and carefully picked one up, deftly put her hand between her legs, and dropped it to the floor. No wonder she got rid of them so fast.

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