First cavity

Last week, we took you to the dentist for the first time, which you were ok with, but not overly thrilled.  Of all the thee things that could bother you, the ones that actually did were: the leaning back in the chair and the bright light they shine in your mouth.  A little while back, mommy had seen a spot in the back of your mouth on your last molar (the ones you won't lose until around age 12).  I figured it was a cavity, and thankfully you had not complained of it hurting or anything.  The dentist said it was deep, but since no pain was there, we might get lucky enough for you to have just a filling instead of a stainless steel crown/cap.
We returned a few days later (Tuesday) to have the filling done.  This time, we went to a different room in the office and I'd already told you that you were going to get the funny gas and sleepy juice for your tooth.  They had you choose a "nose", which is the part of the tubing for the funny gas that goes over your actual nose.  You can choose different scents; you opted for 'bubble gum'.  You did not like the nose being put on and started to get a little upset, telling me and the hygienist that you wanted to leave and go home.  I told you to 'smell the bubble gum', but you kept trying to breathe through your mouth to avoid it.  Unfortunately, I don't think you'd had quite enough of it to really relax when it came time to do the tooth sleepy juice, so you didn't like that part, either.  Once you finally did start breathing in the funny gas, you got much more relaxed and said, "Thank you, mommy," very softly to me, twice :)
When you started to feel the tooth sleepy juice working, you informed me, "It's making a pillow in my mouth."  LOL.  So cute :)  You were still quite relaxed and did an excellent job of holding still while the dentist used her "bumpy brush" to clean the tooth and the "whistling brush" to make the tooth ready to be filled.  Since you were so good, it went very quickly.  You helped count the beeps for the 'lightsaber tool' (the blue light that cures the filling material) and after it was done, you said, "I love the dentist, mommy!"  :D You were also very excited about getting another little car as a treat at the end.  We have to return this coming Thursday for another tiny filling on the other side of your mouth, which I hope will go just as well!

The Mexico song

You have always loved to listen to music, especially in the car, just like mommy.  I even have a playlist with your favorites in my phone for this reason.  Many of the songs, you know the titles or have assigned them one, such as the mysteriously dubbed "bathroom song", which is actually "On Se Connaît" by Youssoupha (and has nothing at all to do with a bathroom, nor have you ever heard it in a bathroom, so, yeah, no idea...)  A few months back, we had done a road trip and apparently you liked when I played "Orinoco Flow" by Enya.  Admittedly, I didn't know what the title was or what she was singing when I was a kid, either.  You did your best when requesting to hear it again, but it sounded like a jumbled word.  It took me about a dozen songs before I figured out what it most likely was.
Day before yesterday, you went with mommy to go to Sur La Table, a store that is about a half hour drive from our house.  Soon as we were in the car, you wanted "music, please," and I obliged.  After a couple of songs from your list, you asked if you could hear 'the Mexico song'.  *record scratch*  The whaaa?  I had no idea what this one was.  I went through each song of your playlist, with you telling me, "not that one" for all of them.  When we got to the end of the list and I hadn't yet found it, I went to the main list and tried a few songs from there...still no dice.
The next day, I was telling daddy about it as we all drove to Anyway's for a dinner out together.  He asked you if you could sing or hum 'the Mexico song' for us.  You stated, "I can't.  It's the Mexico song, the one from 'The Simpsons'."  Ahhh!  I knew immediately and started cracking up.  We'd watched the episode not too long ago and then listened to the song in the car a couple days later: "Canyonero", the hilarious commercial song mocking a gigantic Hummer style vehicle that Krusty the Clown ends up promoting.  The song always makes me giggle, and now it will even more thanks to its new Avery-dubbed title.  Love you lots, dear son :)

Happy new year...a few days late

Yes, it's been a while, I know.  We've had a few holidays since mommy last put in an entry.  Normally, I manage to start the year with many entries, but mommy got sick around Christmas with a really, really bad cold that just finally went away a couple of days ago.  Thus, I really didn't feel up to writing much here.  That being said, I will once again renew my efforts to at least enter a little here once a week.  Really, I mean it!
For new year's, mommy and daddy, despite both of us not feeling our best by far, took you to a NYE party for families at the skating rink.  It was really fun and cute.  You and mommy skated a bit, but daddy didn't feel up to it, so he just watched.  We all had some pizza (which was surprising decent) and you were obsessed with making sure I found you a 'noise maker' (cardboard cone to 'toot'), which of course, I did.  You were upset that the balloons hat dropped were too hard for you to pop without my help, so you cried a little.  Next time, perhaps we'll take a pushpin ;)
Recently, you were cooking with mommy and you always get to pick eggs from the carton for me to use.  As I knew would happen eventually, this time the egg you chose slipped out of your hand and sailed to the floor.  Without even thinking about it, the first wird out of your mouth as a reaction was, "Sometimes."  This made mommy roar with laughter, as it is directly from a book you love to read called "The Best Mouse Cookie".  On one page, it says, "Mouse thinks baking is easy..." and on the next, "...sometimes."  On the 'sometimes' page, there is a picture of a broken egg in the floor :)  You actually didn't appreciate my laughter at first, then realized a couple of minutes later that it was indeed amusing.
Tonight you and daddy made a huge totem-pole looking tower in your room with your megablocks--it's pretty cool.  Love you lots and will write again soon, I swear!