Can I have a glass of water?

One of Avery's favorite movies right now is Horton Hears a Who, which she affectionately calls the "elephant movie". For those of you that haven't seen it, it's a cute movie. One of the main characters is called the Mayor (Steve Carell) and he has 96 daughters and one son named Jo Jo. Avery knows Jo Jo and says his name while watching the movie (along with some others like "mayor", "elephant", "bird", and "monkey"). In one scene, the mayor is putting his daughters to bed, going around and kissing each one. The very last one looks up and says "Daddy, can I have a glass of water?" and then every other daughter asks too. 

Well when I was putting Avery to bed the other night, I had just given her a kiss, and she looks up at me and says "Daddy, water please." I gently reminded her that she had some milk in her hand. She looked down at it and gave a nonchalant shrug, and started drinking it, and went to sleep. 

One last story. Jen drinks coffee most mornings and our daughter knows that enough to be able to say "Coffee". The other day, she climbed up on a stool near the counter where Jen makes her morning coffee and found the stirring spoon and some sugar packets. She grabbed an empty sugar packet and began shaking it, then pretended to pour it on the spoon. She grabbed the spoon, put it to her mouth and pretended to drink while saying "Mmmm, coffee!!" Later that day, she was walking around with a "cup" and a what appeared to her to be a coffee dispenser. She would hold the two of them together and "drink" from the cup and said again "Mmm, coffee!!". 

Sometimes I forget just how much Avery (and Connor for that matter) are learning from us. She is copying just about everything we do, even the small things like shaking the sugar packet so it's easier to pour. It's a good reminder that we need to watch what we do around them and try to behave like the people we want them to become. Even if I am not always teaching, Avery is always learning.