12/3/21
After I brushed Allie’s teeth.
Allie: “I don’t want to interrupt my dentist. I’m saying, I don’t want to move around while my dentist is working on my teeth. I want to be nice to my dentist.”
She can be very courteous to some people.
12/13/21
Nicole describing how her rash feels when she’s at school:
“Sometimes, it feels like someone is taking a needle and putting it in these red dots [on my arms] and putting it really really deep, like all the way through, and then leaving it in for five seconds, and then taking it out.”
“It feels like my arms are on fire, and then people are putting nails in the red dots on my arms.”
12/27/21
Allie: “I need someone to supervise me.”
1/9/22
Allison pulls up a photo on my phone of a frog dissection model.
Allison: “His small intestines are showing! How lovely, we get to eat his small intestines!”
Nicole bursts into tears. “The frog died!”
Me: “It’s just a model, Nicole. It’s not real.”
Allison lectures: “Models are not real.”
1/10/22
Discussing bacon around the dinner table, Nicole says, “I don’t like crunchy bacon. I like chewy bacon.”
Allison says, “I like crunchy bacon. I like to hear the crunchy crunch.”
1/11/22
Describing a picture she’s drawing, Allie:
“It rolls like a rolling bug, except it eats…bacon.”
1/11/22
Allie, randomly: “I don’t want people to die.”
Me: “Why do you say that?”
Allie: “Because then people will say, ‘Oh, Allie doesn’t care about people.’”
Reading her a book about the planets, it describes Venus as a dusty and dry place where it never rains.
I ask, “Would you like to live there?”
Allie: “Well, I like to play in the rain. I like to hear the ‘splish splash.’”
1/12/22
Allie, talking to Nicole’s friend:
“Make sure not to step on spiders, when I was little, I stepped on a spider and I felt bad.”
1/20/22
After overcoming constipation following a prayer, and Allie was delighted that it didn’t hurt when the poop came out:
Allie: “When I was a baby, I used to think, ‘Heavenly Father and Jesus, they’re not real!’ But now I think they’re real.”
1/24/22
Allison’s catchphrase: “I’m fine with everything.”
Also, from today:
Allie: “You’re a very nice mom, but you’re also, like…strict.”
1/27/22
Allison, describing how to do a head stand, which she learned at tumbling class:
“You gotta not let your head touch the ground. You gotta have straight elbows. But when they say, ‘No elbows!’ I think they’re going to cut off your elbows.’”
1/28/22
Reading to Allie from a science book about flowers.
Allie: “Mommy, some flowers, like Panahhma flowers, don’t exist.”
2/10/22
Allison:
“When I grow up, what I want to be is a taster.”
“Why do you want to be a taster?”
“Because I like meat.”
2/14/22
Me: “Let’s go!”
Allison, sifting through the hair ties, bows and headbands: “Hold on, I need to decorate myself first.”
2/20/22
Allison was trying to take off her shoe, and her face was bright red, and she yelled,
“Ku-BYE-uh-BYE-uh-BAH!”
3/4/22
Allison, with a Downton Abbey British accent: “Mommy, can you pleeease check Nicole’s wooork?”
Later
Nicole: “I think the reason why Ben goes to speech [therapy] is because he has a British accent.”
3/7/22
Nicole was upset because Allison was playing with her hair as Nicole was lounging on the couch. Then, we realized Allison was just trying to put Nicole's wet hair up on the couch so it wouldn't wet her back.
Me: “Oh, were you just trying to put her hair behind the couch?”
Allison: “Yeah.”
Me: “Were you trying to help out?”
Allison: “Yeah, because that's more comfortable to me.”
