Bathing Alone?

Last week we were up at Dad and Mom's house. Allie is usually allowed to go outside with the big kids but this day we needed her to stay inside. I hadn't seen her for a minute or two and thought, "Where's Allie? She was just here." I ran outside looking for her and didn't see her so I came back in. Now that she's able to open doors it's hard to keep her in one room. Mom's bedroom door was now open. As we walked in through the room Mom said, "I bet she's standing at the tub waiting to take a bath." Right then we hear a sweet little voice, "Bath!" and then "splash, splash, splash". We went in to the bathroom to find Allie completely clothed sitting in a bath tub full of water. Her cousins had taken a bath earlier and hadn't drained the water. She was just having such a blast, I let her stay and play for a while...but this time, with adult supervision.

Allie and the Puppy

Allie loves to help with the puppies. She watched me take their pictures when they were 2 weeks old. I put a ribbon on them and put them in a basket to make them all cutsie. The next time I took them out to take their picture, Allie was all over it! She tried to put the ribbon on the puppy and pose them for the picture. Then she wanted to be even more involved and got right in the picture with the puppy. She just laid her little head right on the puppy and cuddled up with her. I loved the picture so I passed it on to some coworkers. One of them was so sweet to play around with the picture and do some black and white with a touch of color and some other things. I loved it so much, I decided to use it as my main picture on my blog. Here's the original:

Camping

We went camping this weekend and Allie had a blast. She and her cousins got SO filthy but they loved every minute of it.





Look at those faces. Matching "Mud Eye"




Even Maddie is filthy!




Daddy and Allie trying out her new lantern



Ride Sharing