5 year old logic

Ava: Your cookies are so good you should work at a bakery! And take me to work with you. Then I can work at a bakery when I grow up!

Me: Okay, but you'll have to get up pretty early. Bakers start work at like 3 or 4 in the morning to make all that yummy food.

Ava: Okay, well since I can't tell time, you'll have to wake me up and take me so that I can get there and everything.

Safety lesson

Ava to my mom on when it's okay to call 911, "If you or Grandpa are lethargic."


Nana, taken aback: "And what if they ask you what that means?"

Ava: "You know: if your eyes won't open and I lift your arm and it just drops. But they're the professionals: they should know that!"

Role model?

As we made dinner tonight, Ava used an old non-working cell phone to carry on a long conversation about her day with an imaginary person, complete with updates on her meetings, her projects, her emails, and for some reason, extensive use of un-ironic air quotes. 4 year olds can be hilarious.

I do wonder though how she comes up with this stuff. I'll cop to modeling (unintentionally) the robust conversations on meetings and projects and such, but I am not a frequent air quotes abuser. "I swear."

"Riiight... Uh huh. Yeah, my mom's taking my picture AGAIN."

I can bet that I will be able to put together a montage of her in this pose over the next 12 years, assuming we'll still be using phones and not some mind-meld device for communicating.