So as I was tucking in the girls, unprompted by any discussions of any sort, Allison tells me that she is an ant pupa (she’s all curled up in her blanket), and from Meredith’s bed I hear, “Yeah, and I’m an ant larva” - strange kids.
After night night time, Allison just has to come down to tell me her favorite Rudyard Kipling story from the Just So Stories - How the Elephant Got his Trunk, and she chuckled as she told me this, as though recalling the story.









