Ava's Joke: V3

Ava has discovered potty humor. I don't know how it happens, but it does, and now she thinks it's funny to say, "poo poo".  Really, really funny. She started saying it at the dinner table and I said, "No potty talk at the table!" So then she proceeded to say, "No potty talk...POO POO!!!!" Then she laughed and laughed.

Tonight she took it to a new level, incorporating her new bit into her old one, thus forming the 3rd iteration of her famous knock knock joke. 

Here it is...

Ava:  Knock knock

Me: Who's there?

Ava: Poo poo!

Me: (first attempting to look angry and then totally failing and giving in) Poo poo who?

Ava: Poo poo in my pants!

It's actually kind of funny.

What's not funny is that she will no longer go to sleep at night. We're in that horrible stage where she still needs a nap, but then she's not tired at night.  We try to shorten the nap and then she's a wretch all afternoon. So we let her nap for about an hour and she's still up at 10pm.  It's not good.

For those of you who are thinking, "just let her cry it out," I promise that we have tried it to no avail.  We did it with Sophie and the first time she screamed for maybe 20 minutes and then passed out.  I think we did it 2 or 3 times, max, and never had to do it again. Ava can stand there and scream bloody murder for an hour. We've never tried it for longer than that.  Maybe she'd fall asleep after 61 minutes, but I doubt it. She is a uniquely "spirited" child.

Behold...

Last night, when she was up again and terrorizing us, I said, "Are you naughty?" and she said, "No.  I happy." 

We're doomed.