First
In the car on the way to the National Aquarium, Alyson was holding up her water bottle and trying to Madelyn to get her to open it up: "More! More! Manna!?!?!?!"
Second
Filed under random toddler conversation (see previous post from 11 December 2014):
Alyson: Oh my Josh!
Tony: Who is this Josh?
Alyson: Shew! (Shoe!)
Tony, being silly because he knew what Alyson was actually saying: He's a Jew?
Alyson: Yeah.
Tony: How did you meet him?
Alyson: Nana.
Tony: You met him at Nana's?
Alyson: Yesh!
As happens whenever she gets new shoes, after getting her new shoes this morning, Alyson refused to take them off the rest of the day because she loves her "ssshhhhooooooooss!"
If you ask Alyson to say her name, she says, "Alsa!" Too much "Frozen"?
While getting her diaper changed, Alyson was being helpful and holding her feet up. She grabbed them and started clapping them together. They prompted her to clap them together while singing:
"Pat a take, pat a take!" (Patty cake, patty cake)
Alyson was visiting with her baby cousin today. She was being sweet and giving him kisses. Next thing we knew, she licked the back of his head, and then did it again and laughed.
While packing to go to Nana and Poppop's Alyson excitedly was trying to throw everything in her room into her bag. When we finally got her downstairs to pack up some toys:
Tony: You gonna get some toys from the playroom?
Alyson: Yyeaaahhhh-up!
While eating dinner, we were trying to get Alyson to eat a bit of her beef, which Madelyn was actually eating.
Me to Alyson: You need to eat one bite and then I don't care.
Alyson: No!
Me: You can have more sweet potatoes if you eat a piece of beef.
Alyson: Yeah....
I moved the fork toward Alyson's mouth to put the beef in her mouth.
Alyson: No!
Me: Madelyn is eating it. Don't you want to try it?
Alyson: No!
Me: What if Madelyn feeds it to you?
Alyson: Yeah....
Madelyn started to bounce up and down in her seat in excitement.
Me: Will you eat it then?
Alyson: Yeah....
I handed Madelyn the fork.
Madelyn, moving the fork toward Alyson's mouth: Open up!
Alyson opened her mouth and easily started chewing the piece of beef.
Madelyn: Good job, Alyson!
Me: Yay!
Alyson swallowed the beef and then she pointed at the empty spot on her plate where the sweet potatoes had been: More!
During Mass, I had Alyson sitting on my lap to try to keep her a little quieter. She was playing with my fingers. I have a Bandaid on a cut on my finger. She saw the Bandaid and kissed it to make it better.
Tony went up to get Alyson from her crib when she woke up from her nap. She was standing in her crib giggling.
Tony, walking into her room: What are you giggling at?
Alyson, pointing to her ladybug that projects stars: Stars.
Tony: Your ladybug?
Alyson: Yeah, stars.
Tony: Was your ladybug telling jokes?
Alyson: Yeah! Silly!
First
When we got downstairs this morning, Alyson was walking around the house looking for the second elf. As she looked, she kept calling, "Elfie?! Elfie?!"
Second
At first Alyson didn't want to eat dinner tonight. She cried about having to sit down at the table. We got the girls' plates on the table while Tony and I finished getting ours. Madelyn was waiting patiently to start eating. By the time I got to the table with my plate, only a few minutes, I was shocked when I looked at Alyson's. She had already eaten all of her noodles!
Me: Did you eat all of your noodles already? Where'd they go?
Alyson, pointing to her stomach: In there.
While sitting between Tony and me at Mass this morning, Alyson tried being sneaky and tried to take things out of Tony's coat pocket that was next to her leg. Tony caught her and she giggled and hid her face.
Alyson was playing with the remote control car. You push the big red button on the remote once and the car will go straight. When you push it again, the car will spin in circles. Alyson couldn't figure that out and was having problems getting the car to go. In her frustration, she held the remote by the antenna and shook it at the car to try to get it to move.
We had one of Alyson's "favorites" with dinner tonight: broccoli. She took a bite, leaned down over her plate, and tried to spit it out while saying loudly, "Bleh!"
Alyson was playing with the Barbie and bakery that Madelyn got for her birthday. The wanted the doll to take a seat and eat: "Sheet! Sheet! SHEET! Eat! Eat!"
While I was talking to Mom before leaving this afternoon, Alyson walked into view and it struck me that she does look a lot like my mom.
Me to Alyson: You know, Alyson, you really do look like your grandma.
Alyson stuck out her tongue and blew a raspberry at us. Then, she laughed.
When we went up for bed, Alyson pulled her Elmo out of her crib through the slats. She tried to get her pillow the same way, but couldn't pull it through.
Me: You can do it. You've done it before.
Alyson moved over to the edge of the pillow instead of the middle where she was trying to pull and was able to get it out.
Alyson, excitedly: Did it!
She then took her Elmo and the pillow into the hall, put them in the middle of the floor, and laid there cuddling Elmo.
Alyson is ready with an answer to everything.
Madelyn, eating her sweet potato: Are sweet potatoes healthy?
Alyson, quite quickly: Nnnooooooo....
We have hit the "mine" stage of being a toddler. All day, Alyson declared everything she saw as "mine". She even laid down on the ottoman, wrapped her arms around it as best she could, and yelled, "Mine!"
On our way to Terry's this morning, Alyson must have thought we were going to Grandma's.
Alyson: Mama?!?!
Me: What?
Alyson: Ganma?
Me: You're not going to see Grandma today. You'll see Grandma in two days.
Alyson: Awwww....
This morning, Madelyn and Alyson were hiding between our dressers while I was getting dressed. I knew where they were, but was pretending that I didn't see them.
Alyson, loudly: Let it go!!!!
Madelyn: Alyson, sssshhhhhh.... We're hiding.
Alyson, stage whispering: Let it go....
And a little later, while they were still "hiding":
Madelyn, pointing to the owl on Alyson's sweater: Alyson, what's that?
Alyson: Ow-el!
Me: Alyson, what sound does an owl make?
Alyson: Ribbit!
Alyson was walking around the house trying to find the little elf that was hiding. She walked past it's hiding place in the DVD cabinet multiple times. When she finally saw it, she laughed, covered her mouth, pointed at it, and yelled, "Oh my josh!"
Madelyn was finishing her alphabet journal page for the week. That meant that Alyson went to get her "journal" to put stickers in it. As they were working, Madelyn realized that Alyson used an entire sheet of stickers that Madelyn had just gotten from Nana and Poppop in her birthday card. She was very upset and started crying. Alyson realized that Madelyn was upset about it and started slowly peeling the stickers off of the pages of her book and handing them back to Madelyn.
Must do what sister does! We gave Madelyn a scooter for her birthday. For today only, she got to ride it in the house a little. She was on it after we got home today, but then leaned it against the ottoman to go do something. Alyson went up to the scooter while trying to get on it saying, "Ride!" She then proceeded to let it fall over (and the scooter got moved out of her reach).
As I was putting Alyson down for bed, I was reminding her that her sister's birthday is tomorrow.
Me: Tomorrow you'll have to say, "Happy birthday, Madelyn!"
Alyson: Mouse?
Me: Yes, your birthday party theme is going to be Mickey Mouse, but your birthday isn't for another month.
Alyson: Par-eeee!!
While the girls were finishing up their desserts:
Madelyn to me or Tony: Can I have more milk?
Alyson: Nope!
During Madelyn's birthday party, Julie was talking to Alyson.
Julie: Alyson, your "yeah" is the best ever.
Alyson: Yeah.
We have two elves and a reindeer that hide around the house and create a little bit of funny mischief like Elf on a Shelf, but without any of the other rules. It's a bit of silliness for the girls. When we got home today, the girls walked into the house to find that the elves and reindeer had created a sledding hill out of the couch pillows and were using Alyson's slippers as sleds. Alyson laughed when she saw them, but then her laughter quickly turned into a questioning sound of "What?!?!" She ran over to them, yelled "Out!", and grabbed them to quickly pull them out of her slippers. She then took her shoes off and put her slippers on.
Over the last few days, Madelyn has stared saying, "Oh, gosh!" quiet frequently. Today, Alyson the parrot started saying, "Oh, josh!" I think we need to figure out who Josh is and have a talk with him and his parents. ;-)
While Madelyn and Alyson had their "baby" sleeping in the playroom, Alyson kept walking around to everyone putting her finger to her mouth and stage whispering, "Shhh.... Baby! Baby!"
Madelyn, frantically running back to the bathroom: I have to go potty!
Alyson, running after her, panting: In there! In there!
Alyson came out to get me in the kitchen because she insisted on sitting on her potty as well. Nope, she didn't do anything, but she tried. I think she had gone very recently, though, because her diaper was very wet. (Soon, but I kind of wish she wasn't acting ready to potty train right before the holidays when schedules will be crazy!)
I was standing just inside the bathroom door getting Madelyn to brush her teeth. Tony came in with Alyson to brush Alyson's teeth and had to squeeze in past me to get into the room. As they went behind me, Alyson reached out, poked me, and said, "BOOP!"
