A Good Cousin

This is the chaos that was my house today. The 5 youngest "McCullough" cousins hung out at our house today. They played and had a few battles but pretty much had a great time. At one point, I asked Drew to help Allie get her bottle off the table. When he did, I said, "Oh Drew, thank you so much. That was so sweet." His reply was, "Well, I just want to be a good cousin." This little darling boy isn't even 4 years old yet. Awww....That's just about the sweetest thing ever.

A few moments of calm...it didn't last long.

Drew wasn't too thrilled about this...

Are You Sure it's January?

We've had record highs here lately. Yesterday it was high 70's and Allie took that as a cue that it was time to get a little wet. So, she helped herself to the dog's water.

Drew & Allie

These two had a blast digging in the barren flower beds on Tuesday....

Mouth, Pockets, Nose

Since Allie was tiny, everything has gone in to her mouth. She loves to chew on rocks and eat sand. Lately, she's been putting things in her pockets to store it for later. I find rocks in the laundry all the time.

Yesterday she discovered a new place to put stuff....her nose. She had shredded a piece of tissue and stuck it so far up her nose I could hardly see it. She came to me sneezing and eyes watering. I was able to get it out without too much trouble and we had the "don't ever put anything in your nose" conversation. I thought she'd learned her lesson, until I caught her two more times with tissue in her nose. Come to think of it, she did get a giant Tick-tack stuck in her nose a couple months ago so maybe it'll take a trip to the emergency room before she learns her lesson.

This was the 2nd time she stuck it up there.

And after multiple sneezes that brought it down.

Allie & Maddie

Random Allie Conversations

Allie tripped over my computer power-cord on her way to get her teeth brushed tonight. While she was complaining to Daddy that she hurt her knee, he said, "Well, who's my princess?" She stopped complaining, purked up and said, "Allie!"

The other day we had this conversation:
Allie: Daddy?
Me: Daddy had to go back to work
Allie: Why?
Me: To make money
Allie: Why?
Me: So we can buy food
Allie: Why?
Me: So we can eat
Allie: Why?
Me: So we can live
Allie: Why?
Me: Because God made us that way
Allie: Oh!

The "why?" conversations have begun...yippee.

Yesterday Allie was laying in my bed after Tim left for work. She sat up and tooted. "I toot!" Oh yay! She's such a polite almost 2 year old. :)

Tutu 2

Well, I had to bribe Allie to put the tutu on and as you can tell, Maddie wasn't thrilled with it either. But, I just had to get a picture of them both in their tutus. Aren't these two adorable?