Allie and I were at a baseball practice a few months ago. I wanted to take some pictures of her but she was in a mood. Here are the results!

I think I like these better than a posed picture anyway!

Allie had to write some dreams that she had at school.

A dream for my classroom: I have a dream that our classroom will always be clean!

A dream for the world: I have a dream for the world that we recycle.

A dream for my family: I have a dream that my family will not rob!

Sweet girl!

Allie is 6 (and a half as she will tell you!) This is Allie the other day...

Allie informed me today that in 10 years when she turns 16 she would like this..... a minivan for her car. She says they are SO COOL because the doors open by themselves! I thought I'd write this down so we can go back when she turns 16 and complains about whatever car we get her!!!

Given the fact that she has such a great fashion sense though, she could probably even make a 16 year old driving a minivan look cool!

They look like they love each other, right???

I had a shining parenting moment today! Actually two of them. I know they are just two small moments mixed in with all the bad ones that I have but I was pretty proud of them!

Allie has had a very bad attitude lately. That has been bad for our whole family but it has been especially hard on Parker. She had been bugging him all morning so he decided he was going to run away to his grandparents house. I asked him if he would reconsider and he said not unless I got rid of Allie. So he packed his backpack and grabbed his pillow and a water bottle and said he was leaving. I told him to be sure and drink a lot of water because it was hot. I asked him if he knew how to get there and he said no but he would figure it out.

So I gave him a hug and told him I loved him and for him to call me when he got there. He walked out the door and shut it. I stood inside wondering how far he would actually take it. He came back in almost immediately. He said it was too hot and he didn't know where he was going. He decided to stick it out at home for a little bit longer!

Since he was still upset I decided to try a different route. I talked to Allie and I asked her how it made her feel that her brother was so upset with her he wanted to leave our house. She told me that it made her feel bad. I talked to her for a while about her attitude and how she was treating Parker (do unto others....) and she got pretty emotional. I told her she needed to tell Parker she loved him and she was sorry for the way she had been treating him. And she needed to ask him to stay. She didn't want to tell him those things.

So I told her that if she couldn't apologize to him and tell him that she loved him, he was going to leave. (Parker had caught on to my plan by this time!) So he grabbed his backpack and pillows again. He gave me a hug and I gave him his cell phone and told him to call me when he was safe or if he needed help. He then went and opened the door and shut it and then tiptoed to my bedroom. Allie didn't see any of this. She just heard him "leave".

She asked if he had really left and I told her that he had. And that I was sad and I was really going to miss him. She started crying and then ran up to her room. I sat on the stairs for just a few minutes and she came back down. She was very emotional and crying. She said she missed him and wanted him to come home. I asked her if she would like to call him and tell him she loved him and wanted him to come home. She said yes.

So I dialed his number for her and she called Parker. She told him she loved him and that she already missed him so much and she asked him to come home. She was crying so hard that it was hard for her to even talk. He told her that he would come home. He tiptoed down the hall with his stuff and opened and shut the front door. She ran to him and gave him a huge hug and apologized to him. She told him that she would go upstairs with him and help him unpack. So sweet!

I was pretty proud of myself for how I had let that situation play out and hoping that it would really teach Allie a lesson. I was proud of myself until he said something to bother her 30 minutes later and she kicked him. Oh well. Back to the drawing board!

I thought about changing my blog layout and background but now it's almost fall again so I guess I'll just leave it!

Allie and I were looking at pictures the other day from when she and Parker were born and when they were babies. After looking through TONS of pictures she had a question... "Did you and Grandmama and Aunt Melissa go to farms a lot when we were babies?"

Grandmama and Parker at the ACU Homecoming Parade

Me and Parker the lion on Halloween

Melissa on Halloween (still wearing overalls even if they were a costume)

Melissa holding Allie in the hospital


Grandmama sporting the same look as Mel while showing Allie to Parker in the hospital


Me and Parker visiting Grandmama and Granddaddy in Houston

Me and Allie at the pumpkin patch (she's wearing them too!)

Me and Parker at the Alamo (me wearing short overalls due to the heat!)

Now none of us even own a pair over overalls. It's funny how something can be such a fashion trend and then be gone so quickly! I wonder what the trend with be next???

First of all, my sweet husband found the camera cord for me last night before I went to buy a new one today! Hooray for him! That doesn't necessarily mean I will blog any more often but it's still good news!

Parker had a busy spring playing baseball. He played little league with the Yankees with Chris as the coach. And then he played some games and tournaments with the select McKinney league the Vipers!

I thought this was a really cool picture. Chris pitching to Parker!

And how cute does he look in all this gear?
He had a great spring playing all the baseball he could. I think we are going to take the summer off and I'm sure he will be playing again in the fall!

And by the way on Saturday he had one game at 9:45 that they won. They had a two hour break before their next game against the White Sox. So did he come home and sit on the couch and relax? Nope. He played his Wii baseball game. Yankees vs. White Sox. The boy is obsessed!!!

Ok. I've been really bad about blogging lately! We've had such a busy spring. And since I have my iphone I very rarely get on the actual computer anymore!

On top of that I can't find my camera cord anywhere and my computer doesn't have a slot for the card (what's up with that?). I'm going to go buy a new cord this week and I will take a bunch of great pictures while we are in Colorado and I will catch up on some posts from the spring as well.

It's summer right? I shoud have more time on my hands... unless I am too busy at the pool!