The Thank You Note

Tonight as we were leaving my parents' house, Avery was having a really hard time leaving my sister Brittany. They'd been having a really great time playing Princess Sofia, which was mostly Brittany singing a made-up song about Princess Sofia/Avery, while Avery danced along and acted out the words ("She has curly red hair" - Avery does a scrunch-your-hair dance move - "And polka dot pajamas" - she dances and pokes at the dots on her pants - "And big brown eyes"  - she stops and dramatically blinks her eyes and sort of rolls her head ---  my phone's battery always chooses the worst times to be out of memory! It was so great, it really needed to be on video. I am by no means a good-enough writer to capture how cute/hilarious/ingenious it all was.)

So anyway, needless to say, Avery was having such a good time, she was majorly bummed out that it was time to go. But we coerced her towards the door, and out of nowhere after she gave Brittany a hug she said "OH! I have to write you a thank you note!"

... No clue where this came from. No one had said anything about thank you notes at all that day. Or ever? So we all laughed at how cute and random it was, and then we headed out the door not really thinking much more of it.

Then, as Sean is buckling her in her car seat, she has my phone in her hand (part of the coercion) and she's very focused on what she's working on in the painting app. And as she's drawing, she says sort of under her breath and rather seriously "Thank.. you... for...the...food....". And Sean looks, and she's not drawing, she's writing! She had written "A U I". She wasn't joking about writing a thank you note.

Gives me hope that she's got a very polite future ahead of her.

And I don't have a picture, so here's a recent but not-really-related video, except that it a little bit shows off some of this girl's moves.

feat. Everett W.