three recent utterances from ava:

1. "ava! you are not the center of the universe!"

"yes i am."

2. "mommy, i don't want pasta tonight, because it hurts my feelings."

(further questioning revealed that she does not like it when it gets stuck in her throat, which is of course where you get a "lump" when you feel sad, so it sort of makes sense)

3. (after smacking her face into the table when she bent over in her chair) "i just did not see where my nose was going!"