Zealous pray-er

About a week ago, Allison started insisting on saying prayers completely by herself.  Every time you try to help her, she whispers, "I say it myself."  Every time.  Fortunately, she usually doesn't get "stuck" in a never-ending loop anymore.  All her prayers follow a similar theme.  This was her prayer tonight:

Dear Heavenly Father, thank thee for this day.  Please help us to be kind.  Please bless Grandpa.  Please bless Grandma Wilson...for family night.  Finafings (say these things) in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

She loooooooves to be the one to pray.  It is very unfair when anyone else gets to say it.

More overdue items

Ta-da!

(From last summer)

Serenading us

(Around November)

Reading in the car

(Around December)

Christmas

Allison so carefully scanned each individual item:

(December 2019)

Serenading us again:

(early January 2020)

Blue Hat, Green Hat (the oops book)

(January 2020)

Nicole reading to Allison:

The Wheels on the Bus

(January 2020)

All about Allison - photos from the past couple weeks

Looking dapper:

That looks comfortable:

Allison reminds me of her paternal grandmother:  fearless to try new things.  I turned my back while pressing corn tortillas, and Allison had taken over.  She insisted on doing everything herself, from start to finish:

She has the habit of stuffing her mouth.  Here it is, full of tortilla:

Watching her sister ride her tricycle:

Allison peeled an orange and left this trail of peels:

She said she was talking on her "turtlephone."

I don't think Allison is ever sad (but she does cry angry tears).  Yesterday, she was pushing Nicole in her tricycle, and she would fall down on her face, and she got up, laughing and laughing.  Anytime she fell, Nicole says Allie would say, "I'm okay, I'm okay."  The exception to her cheeriness is a couple of months ago when she had a stomach illness, so I had to basically starve her (she will throw up 11 times in one day if you don't drastically control her intake).  Warning:  this is probably one of the pity-inspiring pictures you'll ever see taken in my kitchen:

A few messages from Allison:

Reading buddies

From tonight:

Allison sings, "Giants in the Sky":

Nicole schoolwork March 18-20

I'm attaching Nicole's schoolwork here so I don't have to email it all to her teacher (because my dad says it takes a few days for him to receive emails with lots of attachments).  Also, our dog (Allie) ripped up some of it.

Book lover II

I snuck into the girls' room tonight to find Allison asleep peacefully on her back, with an open book (the same Glamorous Garbage one) laying across her chest, as well as another "favorite" one open under her head.  As I delicately removed the book from Allison's chest, she woke up with a start while yelling, "My book!"  I tried to remove the one from under her head, and she said, "But it's my favorite!"  I lay the closed books next to her to ease her mind, but she insisted, "Open!"  So I opened them and lay them next to her.  That seemed to do the trick.  She went back to sleep.  Haha.  What a silly girl.

Book lover

I walked into their room after I had put the girls to bed and found Allie like this