| Avery's opera face!
She likes to yell for fun ~ as loudly as she can and then she laughs!
Avery is very expressive. She has been doing many things lately to show
us how she feels. She has a few words: NO!, That, Wa Wa (water), More.
But she uses mostly her non-verbal talents to communicate with us. A
couple of weeks ago we were driving to church. Avery was wearing a
pretty dress. She wanted a snack. I rummaged through the cooler I had
with me to find her a snack. I pulled out a tangerine and Brad
suggested saving the tangerine for after we changed her clothes. I got a
different snack. Avery rejected the snack and demanded the tangerine.
I explained she could have it later when she wasn't wearing a dress
because it would get juice all over her. She showed her displeasure by
yelling at the top of her lungs. I offered the other snack again and
she scowled and closed her eyes tight. For several minutes she
continued closing her eyes. She would peek sideways through her
eyelashes and if she saw me looking at her she would tightly shut her
eyes again. Her Grandma Loretta did the same thing when she was a
little girl. She thought that if she closed her eyes tight that no one
else could see. A great way for a little one to "punish" uncooperative
adults!
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