It's magic!

Ava: "Mommy, I want a magic wand!"

Me: Ava, you have a few already...you have the one that lights up, and you have a couple others."

Ava: (sighs, like she's trying really hard to be patient with me even though I clearly don't get it) "Those are pretend! I need a real magic wand!"

Me: "Oh. Well, okay then. I'll see what I can do about that..."

Ava: "Thank you!"

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Ava: "I want some apple juice."

Me: "Ava, I do not have any in the car. We are not going anywhere that sells it. You will have to wait until we get home."

Ava: (working herself into a near-tantrum) "I WANT APPLE JUICE!!!! I WANT SOME RIGHT NOW!"

Me: "AVA. CALM DOWN. I do not have any apple juice! I can't just magically make some appear!"

Ava: "But I don't want MAGIC apple juice, just REGULAR apple juice!!!!"

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Ava: "Today at school the policeman visited us!"

Me: "Oh that's nice! A man or a woman?"

Ava: "Just a man."

Me: "What did he talk about?"

Ava: "He told us about dangerous things! And he locks up bad guys and puts them in jail. So I told him about Chopper!* And then he told us about his shoot-gun. He uses it to be safe from the animals in the woods."

Me: "Oh, he uses his gun on....animals? In the woods?"

Ava: "Yes. And bugs. There are bugs in the woods....BIG ones."

*Chopper is a mean train or something in one of the Thomas the Tank Engine movies. I'd really like to know what Ava said to the policeman regarding Chopper....or if there was a policeman to begin with. Maybe it was all in her head...

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Ava: "What are hot dogs?"

Me: "I don't know. They're meat or something."

Ava: "MMMMMMM.....MEAT!! I love meat! Can you buy me meat?"


I should point out, Ava doesn't eat meat, other than eggs. Occasionally I can get her to eat my homemade meatballs or some Chick-Fil-A nuggets, but that's it.)

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Ava: "Owwwww! Stop it, CJ!" (She was downstairs on the couch. CJ was taking a nap up in his crib. Unless he has an Ava voodoo doll, I have no idea what was going on.)