A phone call to Heaven

Today Ava walked past me with her little toy phone and we had the following conversation:

Ava: Mom I'm about to make an important phone call so you need to be quiet. (I wonder where she's heard that before.....lol)
Me: Okay I'll be quiet
Ava: You have to be quiet while I call Jesus.
Me: But Ava you know how we really talk to Jesus right? Do we call him on the phone?
Ava: Yep. Now mom, shhhhhhhh. Hello? Jesus? How are you? Are you doing great?! What?
(Ava now holds her hand over the phone and turns to me)
Ava: Mom! Jesus has an elephant, it's a baby one! He telled me that.
(Holds the phone up to her ear again)
Ava: Mom! He has a giraffe too!
Me: Yep Ava, Jesus has lots of animals.
Ava: (turning back to the phone) Jesus? Hello? Mom, Jesus hanged up on me. I'm gonna have to call him back.
(Ava pushes buttons on the phone (apparently she has His direct number)
Ava: Hello Jesus. What? What? Uh-huh. Oh. Okay I'll talk to you later.
(turns to me)
Ava: Mom, Jesus had to go. Cuz he has to take care of a baby.

Lately.............

we've had a lot of these in our house. Maybe it's the new baby. Either way it's not pretty. Although when she saw me snapping pictures Ava momentarily stopped crying and said "Can I see?"

Spring has sprung

Ava got some gardening tools for Easter and a little snap dragon from Lowe's about a week ago and we finally got around to planting it today despite the 75 mph wind! She was thrilled. She got the watering can a couple months ago and has been obsessed with watering things ever since. A few days ago I told her she could water the plant next to the fireplace and she either didn't listen or was being mischevious and I caught her watering the rocks in our gas fireplace. They'll dry right?

Some "friend"ly advice

When choosing friends, you should try to look for people with amazing talents, befriend them and then use their talents to your advantage as much as possible in the name of friendship. Case in point: our third year of the most adorable Easter pics with live ducks and bunnies. It's fun to think about the progression Ava has had. Year 1: cried whenever any part of her body touched the astro-turf and wasn't sure what she thought about the animals. Year 2: Tolerated/liked the animals and willingly gave smiles. Year 3: Well, see for yourself.

Even Charlotte got in on the action.