Funny Ava

I forgot how hilarious 4 year olds can be. Ava takes everything so literally. Here are a few gems from the past few weeks :)

1. Emma and I were watching Survivor and I missed who got voted off. I asked Emma and she said "Spencer". I said which one is that. Emma said "The gay one." Ava pipes up with "Oh, you mean like Daddy?" After Emma and I stopped laughing, I explained to Ava in very simple terms that Daddy isn't gay. Her answer "He doesn't love Vinny?" We'll have to revisit that in a few more years...

2. The other day, Ava and Vinny took a nerf basketball into the bath. We all know that nerf balls turn into 1000# bombs when wet. She kept tossing the wet ball against the shower door. I told her to stop several times and instead she would just throw it softer/lower/slower. I yelled "No throwing the ball. Period!" She looks at me, with the most classic wtf look on her face, and says "Your period?" I say "No, just period." Ava, still pretty confused, "What does period mean?" I say it sort of means "the end". Her face lights up with a maniacal gleam, "Can I say period?" "Sure." "Period! Peeeeeriiiiiiiiod! Period, period, period...per-i-od..." She certainly thinks she's talking about blood.

3. In the car, I was talking on the phone to Beto about a fight he was going to on Saturday night. After I got off the phone, Ava asks me what a fight is. I try to explain boxing as best as I can. She finally remembers having seen it on TV and starts welling up with tears "But, but, Daddy is the biggest. And the tallest..." Then it turned into full-on crying. It took a while for her to understand that daddy was going to watch the fight.