auntie sleepover

ava's aunties shannon and arantxa came over to visit her tonight. and as an extra treat, they stayed all night and hung out with her in the morning too! we had little trouble getting ava to say "shannon", but "arantxa" proved to be a tougher sell. little does poor ava know that "arantxa" is actually a shortened version of arantxa's actual first name (unpronounceable by non-basque-speaking mortal humans).

we started the evening with a trip to the playground (see cute video clip below). then, john and i left the aunties in charge of both ava and a bowl of salt and vinegar potato chips and went out to dinner. ava quickly figured out that arantxa would read her a story, and shannon was the sucker who would deliver "crunchies" on demand.