First
While arguing, I mean reading books this morning:
Alyson to Madelyn: Hey! Stop it!
Madelyn: I was reading it for you!
Alyson: I can read it myself!
Madelyn: You don't even know how to read yet!
Second
As we were leaving a house while trick-or-treating:
Me, as Alyson turned away after getting candy: What do you say?
Alyson: Trick-or.... I mean thank you! I almost said, "trick-or-treat!"
First
I was trying to get Alyson to leave Mom and Dad's a little faster this afternoon, so I reminded her about her new closet that was installed today to get her to want to leave.
Me: What happened in your room today?
Alyson: I don't know.
Me: Did something happen to your closet?
Alyson, jumping around in circles and excitedly moving her arms up and down: I GOT A NEW CLOSET! I GOT A NEW CLOSET! I GOT A NEW CLOSET!
She was ready to leave then.
Second
Alyson was playing with some Styrofoam packing peanuts in a box.
Me: Alyson, stop messing with those. I don't want a big mess.
Alyson: Why?
Me: Because I don't want to have to clean up your mess.
Alyson: But me want to play with them.
Me: Are you going to clean up the mess when you're done?
Alyson: No.
Me: So, you're not playing with them.
Oh, the honesty of toddlers, and a perfect example of her mood lately. She went off and did something else.
Alyson was cranky and fussy all day today. Among other things, she threw a fit while walking to the bus stop to get Madelyn all because she had fallen and I didn't want her running in her boots anymore. I had to carry her to the bus stop because she was crying so hard. Before bed:
Me: Why were you such a fuss today?
Alyson: Because I wanted to beat you to the bus stop!
Alyson loved her new shirt today because, "I'm a super hero like they!"
I was in the kitchen fixing dinner. Madelyn was in the living room coloring, and Alyson was in the living room cleaning up some toys she had been playing with. Alyson asked Madelyn for help with something.
Madelyn: See if Mommy will help you.
Alyson: But Mommy is busy fixing dinner.
(She did end up coming in and asking me for help, and I helped her close up the Mr. Potato Head container.)
During our walk today after dinner, Madelyn and Tony were running ahead while Alyson and I were "running." We turned a corner and saw Madelyn and Tony halfway down the block ahead of us. Alyson lamented, "I want to catch up to them, but they're too fast!"
We got to their race early today, so the girls were running around and pretending to run races. Alyson is so used to her apple after her race that she did this when she finished once. (I had to get her to do it again to record it.)
Alyson and I were talking about Madelyn and her spending the night at Grandma and Grandpa's tonight.
Alyson about tomorrow: It not a work day for you guys?
Me: Nope, it isn't a work day for us.
Alyson: When do I get to go to work?
Me: When you're older.
Alyson: I want to be older sometime.
While in the car stopped at a red light:
Alyson: Go!
Me: What color is the light?
Alyson: Red.
Me: So that means I can't go.
Alyson: I know. [The light changed green.] Green! Go!
When I got to Mom's, Alyson ran off to hide. No one went to find her, so she couldn't stand being ignored anymore. Plus, we all knew where she went.
Alyson, from under the dining room table: This is a really good hiding place!
Me, from in the living room: If it's such a good hiding place, I'll never be able to find you.
Alyson: Under the table, silly guys!
Alyson was playing with her Lego set from pley.com and was putting the helmets on the medieval soldiers. She announced, "They are going to the gas station so they need their helmets on."
Tony and I were in the kitchen talking about possibly running and biking together with the girls. The girls were in the living room playing.
Tony: If we want to go somewhere...
Alyson, butting in: Me wanna go to Silver Diner!!!!
First
While I was fixing dinner, Alyson took a magnet from the side of our trashcan, which is magnetic. She walked up to a drawer and held the magnet up to the drawer pull, "Not there." She turned to the stainless steal dishwasher and held the magnet up to it, "Not there." She walked to the stainless steal refrigerator and held the magnet up to it, "Not there." She walked to the side of the refrigerator on Madelyn's urging, and held the magnet up to it and the magnet stuck, "Right there!"
Second
Madelyn was doing her homework with a pencil. She flipped her pencil over and erased something on her paper. Alyson noticed and told her, "You're using it backwards!"
When we came upstairs tonight for baths and to get ready for bed, Alyson ran upstairs first. When Tony got to her room, she was just sitting there not taking her clothes off or anything.
Tony: You know how to start getting your clothes off.
Alyson: To get NAKED!
We went out for dinner tonight. As we were walking through the parking garage, Tony was carrying Alyson.
Alyson: Why are you carrying me?
Tony: But I want Aly cuddles.
Alyson: Me don't want Daddy cuddles. Me want Daddy kisses.
While the girls were cleaning the playroom, I was directing Alyson to get the baby doll stuff and put it away.
Me: Get that baby.
Alyson got the doll and put it with the doll stuff.
Me: Get that diaper.
Alyson got the diaper and pointed to the naked doll she just put with the doll stuff: That diaper goes on that baby butt!
While washing her hands:
Alyson: What kind of soap is that?
Me: Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin
Alyson: Mmmmm.... Me want that for dinner.
Madelyn was noisily chewing her food during dinner.
Me: Stop. You are not a cow.
Alyson: You are Madelyn, my big sister!
Alyson was helping Madelyn bring the trashcans downstairs to be emptied.
Madelyn, yelling from upstairs as Alyson was coming downstairs: Someone watch Aly on the stairs!
Alyson, when she got to the bottom of the stairs: Done! See I don't need help!
When Tony and Alyson were walking to the car after leaving the grocery store:
Alyson, pointing to a van that was obviously not Tony's car: Is that Daddy's car?
Tony: No.... There's Daddy's car! Yay!
Alyson: No Daddy say, "Yay!" Me no want to hear it.
(Well, okay then.)
We had slow cooker lasagna for dinner tonight. On the table was some extra parmesan and mozzarella cheeses for everyone to add if they wanted it. Alyson couldn't quite pronounce "mozzarella" and got slightly mad at us for teasing her about it: "It's not monster! It's monster-ella!"
Tony and Alyson were at Home Depot. When they left, Tony playfully jogged through the parking lot with Alyson in the cart. The route to the car took them in an arc. When they got to the car, Alyson playfully moved her head from side to side and said, "Whoa..... Me dizzy....."
I got to Mom's after work a few minutes earlier than usual today. When I walked in the door, Alyson came running down the hall to the living room. She stopped with a surprised look on her face when she saw me and yelled, "Oh! You're not the mail!" Then, she turned around and ran back down the hall.
While eating dinner tonight, Alyson sneezed and then said, "That was a wet burp!"
When she was getting out of my SUV when we got home today, Alyson grabbed onto the "oh shit" handle as she slid out of her carseat. As she hung from it before dropping down to the floor of the SUV, she said, "Oooh! Oooh! I'm a monkey!"
Alyson was playing with a ball and rolling it on the floor. It rolled away from her, and she laid stretched out on the floor reaching for it begging, "Come back to me! Come back to me!"
I had my laptop open to my busy and colorful Google Calendar. Alyson sat down next to it on the couch and started pointing a the blocks of color saying, "Let me see. Me want that one and that one and that one looks good." I guess she was shopping in my calendar?
First
After Alyson finished her breakfast this morning, she flattened her napkin out on the table and pretended her finger was a person.
"My finger playing soccer on the soccer team on the soccer floor (the napkin). My finger scored a goal! My finger won!
Second
As I was leaving her room for bedtime, Alyson informed me, "I speaking Spanish. This is how you speak Spanish. Uno. Dos. Tres."
As I pulled up to the house today when we got home from piano, Alyson yelled from the back seat, "Stop! We are at our house!"
Alyson's favorite phrase today was "on purpose.' She asked if things were done "on purpose" or said she was going to do something "on purpose" over and over. For example, while eating lunch:
Alyson: Tomorrow, I'm going to bite my finger at lunch.
Me: You're going to bite your finger?
Alyson: Yes. On purpose.
For dessert tonight, Alyson was having some chocolate cherry granola because that's what her sister wanted.
Alyson after I handed her her bowl: I want raisins!
Me: There aren't any raisins in this granola. I think there are cherries in your bowl. I'll give you more.
Alyson a minute later: Can I have more raisins?
