Things Allison says

Yesterday, after church, I hear Allison from the other room tell her daddy, "Daddy, dis is a buddy dass."  I won't translate so you get to figure out what she said too.

This is the "buddy dass"

Last week, the girls' grandmother was in town, and while we were seated at a picnic table, Grandma left the lid off her water bottle.  Allison says, "You should put da yid on."

This morning, Nicole, Allison, and I made the long drive to Nicole's school.  We were running late, so I took Allison out of the car, and we followed Nicole around the corner and to her school, to make sure she made it in time.  After Nicole passed through the gate, Allison, in my arms, put her chin down and pouted, "Miss Adoe."  ("Adoe" = Nicole)

9/14/19

Just adding here, because it's on the same topic.  Yesterday, Allison indicated she wanted to wear this cute pink shirt with a pocket and a little pink heart.  Later in the day, she was bothered that I had gotten her shirt wet, so I removed it.  She said to Daddy, "I got my favorite shirt [wet]!"  (She had trouble getting out the last word.)  It's interesting to me that she has chosen a "favorite" here.

BTW, just imagine Allison saying all these things with a mouth full of marbles, because that's what it sounds like.

Girls in the yard

Last Monday was Labor Day, so the yard guy got his day off.  Thanks to the cooler weather and all the rain, the yard is now covered in clover!  It is quite beautiful.  Here the girls are this evening, enjoying the play set before they have to go to bed.

A few weeks ago, I took some pictures of the girls in their nice dresses after church.

Filling her mouth full of bread right before taking pictures isn't working out too well.

Are they trying to give the same look? 

The girls playing in July.  Nicole was jumping off the slide.

Allison's birthday

Two years old!

And happy (belated) birthday to the new cousin!

Allison was intrigued by the new baby

Her uncle made her laugh and laugh.

I think she had a good birthday.

Allison sitting down to her meal and watching her visiting aunt have fun.

Allison in the new dress her paternal grandma bought her

Her grandma couldn't resist dressing her up and
doing her hair like a little doll.  She didn't mind
at all being showered with attention.

Just for memories, here are pictures from Nicole's 2nd birthday party.

Allison's famous noise

Little cutie

Tall building

Allison is pretty good about playing independently while Nicole is away at school.  Her tall "budding" today:

The children keep learning

 Sunset a couple weeks ago:

Nicole started school this week. She loves first grade more than kindergarten because she gets to go for seven hours instead of just three, haha.

This was the best we could get in the bright sun.

With her new teacher on Back to School Night.

My in-laws noticed a few weeks ago that Allison holds a pencil in the proper fashion.  Who knew??!  I asked Nicole if she taught Allie how to hold a pencil, and she said no.  My in-laws were also fascinated that Allison was intently drawing circles.  That is her favorite shape, haha.  The other day, she draws a circle and looks up at me proudly and says, "cirdle!"  We have a game with different colored shapes, and she collects all the big circles and carries them around.  Nicole's favorite shape as a young child was hearts.

Allison's favorite color is yellow.  She loves her yellow saltwater sandals.  "Ye-woe shoes!  Ye-woe shoes!" she yells in the mornings.  "Yellow" is also one of her favorite words, because she uses the word for a lot of things, such as "other," or "green."  Nicole's favorite color as a young child was blue.

Allison holding a pencil like a pro!

A few weeks ago, Allison started stacking square Duplos into columns and calling them her "budding"s (buildings).  This week, she started stacking other shapes as well.  Yesterday morning, she made her most elaborate creation yet.  She is trying to carry it up the stairs to share with me, and pieces are falling off, and she is having a little breakdown.  Poor thing.  I went down and helped her bring it the rest of the way up the stairs.  She was quite proud of it.

The proud little Allison and her big "budding" yesterday

She is showing the camera her creation from today