In Love with the Little Things: Averie Desperately Loves Tucker

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Averie Desperately Loves Tucker

My darling little sister has moved back to the west! It was so much fun to see her this weekend. We missed her very much, and none more than Averie. She continually talked about Kelsey all summer long. Oh yeah, and Tucker too. Tucker is Kelsey's yorkshire terrier. Averie is mad about him. See for yourself:

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Kelsey Alissa Larsen said...: It was so great to see you all for conference!!; October 10, 2010 at 1:34 PM

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Little Words that Make Me Smile

Averie (age 4) "I don't want to watch that movie cuz it makes my eyes all drippy." (It makes her cry.)
Averie (age 4) - "Ellorie, do peacocks fly?" Ellorie (age 8) - "Not very well, Averie. It's just not their talent. Peacocks are talented at being beautiful instead."
Mason - "Ellorie, boys CAN scream loud like girls, they just choose not to. Unless someone is trying to kill them."
Ellorie - "Mom, how did Averie learn so many new words without me teaching them to her?"
Mom - "Rylan do you want some bread?" Rylan (21 months) -"Yeah. Wif buttah (butter)."
Averie brings me her toy with the hair styled in a dramatic comb-over and says, "Look Mom, it's an old man."
Mom - "You guys smell stinky. Time for showers." Mason - "Were not STINKY, we just sort of smell like sweaty pajamas."
Ellorie -" I like to imagine that there are tiny people with swords fighting viruses in my body..."
Mason - "Are you talking about veterinarian's day where they shoot the guns?" (Veteran's Day.)
Averie- "This little piggy went to market, this little piggy went to the hospital to get new glasses..."
Ellorie- "..well, if you are a really good trainer, you could train komodo dragons not to bite you and you could even pet them." Mason- "Ellorie, if you are a good enough trainer, you can even train FIRE ANTS not to bite you."
Mason- "Mom! Mom! My pajamas are fire proof! Look, the tag says flame resistant!"
Averie- "Mom, why do you need to cut my brains?" Mom - "No, not brains, BANGS." Averie - "Oh."
Mom- "Okay Averie, I'm hopping in the shower. You have fun playing your game and I'll be right out." Averie - "Okay, Mom, I will and you have fun in the shower too, okay."
Ellorie- "Mom, were pastels invented when you were a kid?"
Mason-written on a valentine to his (boy) cousin: "p.s. Sorry this is pink."
Ellorie - "Me and Averie both have mint green socks, but Averie's have a lot of dirty spots, so they are mint chocolate chip."
Averie, while riding in the car - "Mom, the sun is following us!"
While walking from the car into the church. Mason - "Ellorie! Hurry up!" Ellorie - "Mason! I can't! I'm beautiful today!"
Mason- "MOM! Ellorie pulled my hair in the weakest spot!"
Averie - "Mom, lets paint, and you paint too, and don't clean the kitchen, okay?"
Mason - "Mom, I was totally freaking out. I FROKE out!"
Averie- "Wow! This water sure is wet!"
Mason -"Hey, look Mom. That picture has one of those olden day writing machines." Mom- "You mean a typewriter?" Mason - "Oh, yeah. I forgot what they were called."
Mom- "Averie, it's raining outside. Did you make it rain?" Averie- "No, Ellorie did it!"
Averie- "Mom, do people ride tigers?" Mom- "No." Averie- "Why? Do they buck?" Mom- "Uh, no. They bite." Averie- "Oh."
Averie- "Mom! Rylan licked my blanket! Quick! Put it in the laundry!"
Ellorie- "Mason, I keep trying and trying to dream about dragons, but all I can do is see them in my mind."
Ellorie- "Mom! Averie keeps poking me in the back with her fork!" Averie - "Mom! It's not a fork, it's a spoon!"
Mason- "Can we PLEASE go to Outhouse Steakhouse?" (Outback Steakhouse)
Averie has her "Who", "What" and "Why" a little confused. Our conversation today: Averie- "Who is that color?" Mom- "WHAT is that color." Averie- "Just because, Mom."
I was on the phone for WAY too long and Averie came up and said, "Mom, can you say 'bye'?"
Ellorie- "Mason, soccer doesn't start until summer because if it started in spring the soccer balls would all get dirty."
Mason- "Ellorie, prey animals have eyes on the sides of their heads and can see almost all the way around! They eat leaves and berries." Ellorie- "Yeah, and grass too. Zebras eat grass, Mason" Mason- "Yeah, and people are predators because their eyes are in the FRONT of their heads." Ellorie- "Yeah! And because we eat pigs!"
Averie-"Knock, knock!" Mom- "Who's there?" Averie- "Orange." Mom- "Orange who?" Averie- "Oranges are yummy."
Averie likes the movie Stuart Little, but can never remember the name of the mouse. She calls him "Stupid Little".
Ellorie- "Why is the back of my neck all hot and wet?" Mom- "That's sweat from running around and getting exercise." Ellorie- "If I run backwards will it cool it off?"
Averie- "Momma, momma! Your baby is crying and crying for NO reason!"
Mason came home from school and his clothes had dirty stuff ALL over them. "Mason, what in the world did you get all over your clothes?" Mason- "I don't know! It's not like I was doing anything CRAFTY or anything!"
Ellorie- "Mom, you should ask Santa for a pan for Christmas so you can cook something."
Mason- "Mom, why do I have to brush my teeth after eating only scrambled eggs? There isn't anything bad in them."
Averie- "Mom! I have poop! It's really, really vile!!"
We asked Ellorie if she wanted to be a mom when she grew up. She said, "No WAY!". Mason says to her, "Come ON Ellorie, it's an easy job. You just get to sit around all day and do whatever you want. AND tell Dad to get to work."
Ellorie- "Mason, pretend we are puffles that ate WAY too much candy and now we turned VIOLENT!"
Averie- "Mommy, I wanna snack." Mom- "Okay, what kind of snack do you want?" Averie- "Ummmm... brown."
Ellorie- "Ever since school started I feel really stretchy every day." Mom- "What do you mean? Like you are growing?" Ellorie- "No, like I just want to stretch and lay down for a while." Mom- "Oh, you mean tired?" Ellorie- "Yeah."
Averie- "Daddy, you a BAD GIRL!"
Averie (singing)- "Spring has broccoli a nice suuuprize!" (from the song Popcorn Popping on the Apricot tree.)
Averie- Picks up a carrot from her dinner plate and exclaims, "It's our old buddy... MISTER CARROT!!" (Quoted from her favorite movie, "Bolt".)
Averie- "Jumpoline!" (Trampoline)
Mason, playing a video game- "You're SO ROMANTIC!!!" (Upon investigation, he just misunderstood what a character was yelling during a "battle". Not Romantic.)
When Averie needs a little attention she climbs on the kitchen table and yells, "Mom! Averie's on the table!!!"
Ellorie- "Mason, since you've been very good all day, I'm going to tell you about the second best dream I had last night while I was sleeping."
Averie- "Hey, hey, Mom, Dad, watch this!" (does a "trick" of some kind)
Mason and Ellorie (overheard while playing together)- "We're naughty puffles that are good sometimes, yeah, and are magic and kung fu, BUT we have good manners. Yeah."
Ellorie, upon noticing our tulips had opened, "Hey Mason, wanna go sniff some tulips with me?"
Ellorie- "Mom, how long will it take Dad to drive to Hannah Montana?" (He had a business trip in Montana. She has no idea who Hannah Montana is by the way.)
Averie, every time she draws ANYTHING- "Mom, Mom, look! It's soooo beaudddiful!"
Ellorie- "Mom, why are you making ANOTHER painting? Don't you have enough already???"
Averie, in her most terrified voice-"SHINY! SHINY!" (She abhors reflective floors for fear of slipping and falling. This pretty much includes EVERY store in existence.)
Mason- "Mom, before I can drive I'm going to have to take some driving lessons, because I don't have a CLUE about how to drive a car, except for the steering part of course."
Ellorie- "Mom, wanna know why I love Gramma Gina? Well, I just REALLY REALLY like her, and I like her Pikachu too!"
The family was sitting down having a nice dinner and Averie suddenly stands up, drops a banana slice into her water glass and says, "Yay! It's snowing!"
Averie- "Oh gross, oh gross, oh gross, yuckeeee!" (After taking off her diaper and making a HUGE mess in her crib.)
Ellorie- "I just hicked up!" (hiccuped)
Mason - "Yeah, my mom keeps the clean clothes in the dryer."
Mason- "Averie keeps putting her hardware in my soup!" (silverware)
Ellorie- "Mom! When you opened the door, I thought I smelled grasshoppers outside."
Averie- "Where is Mason? Where is Ellorie?"
Mom- "Ellorie, where did you put that little toy Averie was playing with?" Ellorie- "It's on the couch." Mom- "No, it isn't, I just looked." Ellorie- "No, you have to use big eyes like this and look CAREFULLY!" (Sure enough, there it was.)
Mom- "Ellorie, what flavor of cake do you want for your birthday?" Ellorie- "Ummm, bacon."
Ellorie and Mom were discussing the song "You can be anything", and Mom asked Ellorie what she wants to be when she grows up. Ellorie says without hesitation, "A zebra!!"
Ellorie- "Mom, was I on the nice list or the naughty list today?"
Mason- "That boy is big. He must be in violent 12." Mom- "I think you mean Valiant 12." Mason - "Oh, yeah, you're right."
Ellorie- "Mason, what are you going to be when you grow up? I'm going to be an entomologist and an artist." Later that day- "Mom, can entomologists ride horses too?"
Averie- "Cangeeee!" (candy. Thank you Halloween.)
Ellorie- "Mom, that pretty stuff outside is what keeps us from flying away, huh." Mom-"You mean gravity?" Ellorie- "Yeah, but balloons can still fly away."
Ellorie- "Mom, can Averie go out? I just want to be lonely right now."
Ellorie- "Mom, I want Averie to be a grasshopper for Halloween so I can be a preying mantis and 'tend to eat her."
Mason- "Mom, I can't sleep. I just can't stop thinking about reading."
Ellorie, playing Transformers, "...And I'm Awesomest Prime.." (his name is Optimus Prime)
Averie- "Peekeeeboo!"
Ellorie- "Stop it Mason, that so anorring (annoying)!"
Ellorie's friend- "Hey, Lellellree" Ellorie- "No, Ellorie. You can call me Ellorie Deane Allen if you want to."
Ellorie's friend- "My legs have growed." Ellorie- "I"M growing VERY well. I AM 4 you know."
Mason was whining that he was tired and laying on the bench in church. I kept telling him to sit up. Averie toddled over to him, patted him on the head, and in a very mocking voice said, "Ooohh, beebee."
Ellorie (praying)- "And thanks for all the bugs outside..."
Averie- "Pooh Pooh! Pooh Pooh!" (Read the Winnie the Pooh book to me.)
Averie- "AhhYee" and "MayMee" (Ellorie and Mason)
Mason, trying on shoes- "Hey, Mom, why are these little socks discussible?" Mom-"You mean disposable?"
We were setting up the camping chairs around the camp fire and Ellorie sat down and asked, "What are we going to watch?"
Ellorie loves birds. She sings the words to "oh my darling, Clementine" as "Oh my starling".
Ellorie calls chicken noodle soup, "Chicken Little soup", and Ramen noodles, "rotten noodles".
Mom asked Ellorie to get on her pajamas, and she jumped into the kitchen with them already on saying, "Ta Da!!", Averie was standing right next to her and also said, "Ta Da!!" just like Ellorie.
Averie loves Ellorie's "Wonder Pets". She says "turtle" and "Linny, Linny, Linny, ohhh".
Ellorie drew a horse with too many legs. Mom helped her count them: one, two, three, four, five? "Mom! You counted wrong!!"
Every night before dinner Ellorie sneaks a little bit of food and says, "Nope, not poison!"
Mason was laying wide awake in his bed one morning when Dad left for work. Dad- "Mason, what are you doing?" Mason- "I'm waiting for my alarm to go off so I can get up."
Mason, totally out of the blue- "Mom, I'm getting really bored with ordinary brushing. If I had the new Turbo Tooth Tunes toothbrush, well, brushing would be WAY more exciting."
Ellorie- "Hey, Mom, if we could buy a house with a big swimming pool inside it, well, that would be great."
Averie - "AHHHHHH DONE!!"
Ellorie (sniffing the top of Averie's head) -"I'm just smelling Averie's brain."
Ellorie- "Mom, is it the dead of winter outside?"
Mason, playing Hotwheels/Transformers- "Be careful! Don't scratch my paint job!"
Playing "Transformers" with their Hotwheels, Mason- "Ellorie do you need some missles?" Ellorie- "Yeah, Mason, I really want some blue missles so they match me."
Ellorie- "Mom, look at my beautiful painting! Don't you just want to hang it up on the fridge so everyone can see it?!"
Ellorie - "I don't want to eat any of that yucky stuff" (cabbage), Ellorie, after eating it- "Can I have some more of that yucky stuff?"
Little girl in Mason's kindergarten class- "Mom, that's Mason, I want to marry him someday."
Averie, 8 months old- "DAD!" -loves her daddy!
Ellorie- "Dad, I wish I was a boy." Dad- "Why?" Ellorie- "Because then I could play Metroid." (A "boy" video game)
Ellorie- "Look Mason, the moon! I want to go to the moon someday." Mason- "Ellorie, it takes three days to get to the moon in a rocket." Ellorie- "Oh."
Mason, loudly, to Ellorie (Who was out of her seat during opening exercises of Primary) -"Ellorie you can NOT run around like this is nursery! Ellorie! Ellorie! You need to stay in your seat!"
Ellorie, several times after opening all her birthday presents- "Mom, I just want some more presents."
Mason- "Ellorie, will you play Bionicles with me?" Ellorie- "Sure Mason, but I get to be the Mom" Mason- There is no Mom and Dad, Ellorie, they aren't people" Ellorie- Well we have to find something to be the Mom and Dad" Mason (Frustrated at this point) "Ellorie there is no Mom and Dad they aren't people" Ellorie - "Then what are they?!" Mason- "They are Bionicles!!!"
Averie- yells, "AHHHH!!" when she is hungry. (Even in the middle of the night.)
Mason--"If I drink too much red Kool-Aid it will come out of my belly button!" (Mason and Ellorie both laugh hysterically.) Ellorie--"That was a really good joke Mason!"
Mason to Brandon's brother Darren, "I have a secret, but you have to promise not to tell anyone, not even your friends. My Dad uses potty words. Sometimes he calls me Mason-POO!"
Ellorie, talking on a toy phone- "Oh Grandma Gina, I'm just so excited to come to your house and play with your toy Pikachu." Mason- "Ellorie, it's not actually Grandma Gina's, it's Kelsey's." Ellorie- "MASON, I'M ON THE PHONE!!"
"Hey Mom, I just look soooo hungry, I really do." - Ellorie, delicately hinting that she wanted a snack.
"Papa, don't do that, that makes me boring!" -Ellorie, when being teased
"Mason, you gotta learn to flush!" -Ellorie
Ellorie-"I really want this." Mason- "I know, you can get it for your birthday." Ellorie- "That's a great idea, Mason!"
"Hey Mom, but..." -Ellorie, before every single thing she said to me today.
Ellorie- "I can't get that toy behind the couch!" Mason- "Ellorie, I'll get it, I'm your big brother." Ellorie- "Okay, Mason, but don't get squished at all!"
Mom, trying to talk Ellorie into wearing a new bow in her hair, "Mason, doesn't Ellorie look pretty?!" Mason- "Not as pretty as me!" (He just had his hair combed too)
"Mom, the swivel sweeper can reach all those hard to reach spots, and it is so light that even kids can use it!" - Mason on Swivel Sweeper infomercial
"Dad, I think we should get the Little Giant Ladder because it is so useful. It even works on stairs, and it is only three easy payments of 9999." - Mason watching infomercials again