today ava asked me to get a bouquet of flowers at the grocery store. we got some purple-ish daisy-ish type flowers, and ava nominated herself as caretaker. we got home and she helped me put them in a vase, then asked for one flower for herself. and a glass please too. so, she wandered around the house, with the flower in a glass, very happy with it, then went to the porch where she got 2 kid-size chairs and placed them so that they were facing each other. then she put the flower on one, sat down in the other, and read her flower a story. i witnessed this through the closed sliding glass door, so there was no sound, only the image. it was both the funniest and the cutest thing i have seen in a while.