More Ava-isms: about the crummy weather we've been having

The other day, I was driving the girls to school and Ava was in the car, talking away about the neighborhood park. It has been a topic of much discussion for us, since it is getting remodeled. New playground equipment has been put in and we're both dying to try it all out. The CAUTION tape has been around the playground for a while. This particular day, there weren't any big machines and Ava asked if we could play. I explained that the playground still wasn't ready.

"Besides, everything is wet from the rain," I said.

She responded,"We could dry it all off!" At which I calmly explained that we really couldn't do that because it would take too long and we wouldn't have enough towels to do it all...that was the sun's job: to dry off playground equipment. It was still cloudy at the time and the sky was ominously gray.

"Why isn't the sun out, Mommy?"she asked.

"Maybe because he's still sleeping, or maybe he's crabby and doesn't want to get up," was my reply - I'm pretty quick to explain fictitious reasons for things I can't explain otherwise. It's called creativity. :)

Then, she proceeded to have a "conversation" with the sun, which went something like this:

Sun, are you sleepy?
No

Are you tired?
No

Are you crabby?
No

Are you snuggled up in bed, with your blankies?
No

Are you watching SpongeBob?
No, I don't have SpongeBob. I only have football on tv. I'm watching football.