And This Is Why I'm Not Worried About Avery....

So, last night my two older girls attended 'Carol Fest', which is a long standing tradition in the valley, where ALL the elementary schools come together at the high school to sing. Each school sings one song alone, and then they do a mass choir number with the high school band playing. It's always nice to start the Christmas season, even though listening to a very flat rendition of 'Carol of The Bells' makes me want to cringe, I remember that my high school bands 'swansong' was 'Wipeout', and I remember thinking we were amazing. (Until my mom told me years later how she had to pinch her leg to not laugh!)

All that to say...as Calvin and I are watching our lovely girls sing...I notice that Avery keeps looking down, and to the side....I get her attention and am mouthing to her 'SING AVE!'...to which she mouths back 'I KNOW! I AM!!!!!!'. She then bends down, and back up...looks to the side...and so on.

After the show we tell them how good they were, and then I ask Ave what the heck she was doing? She informs me that a high school student was standing under the bleachers grabbing their ankles while they were singing...so...what does my 9 year old daughter do?

She bends down and tells the kid to (and I quote), 'STOP grabbing our ankles!', to which the boy replies, 'Or what?'.

So what does my saucy little Ave say?

'YOU BETTER STOP GRABBING ME OR I. WILL. PUNCH. YOU. IN. THE. FACE!!!!!'

...and that is why high school has no chance when it comes to Avery V.