Dude, Aleena's Best Friend

I have introduced Dude before. He is our cat. He is Aleena's play buddy. Now I can call him her napping buddy. Dude is getting big and heavy, but Aleena still manages to carry him everywhere and he lets her carry her everywhere. She was exhausted from staying up with the cousins, and Dude was exhausted from trying to survive the cousins. He is dark and kind of hard to see against the dark couch.

Looking Cool

Today I got to escape reality for a couple hours and help a friend with some Christmas Crafts. The kids also had their cousins over today. While we were crafting Jase and Tyler wanted to "Look Cool", so they spiked their hair, put on coordinating clothes and came down to show us. I was in the crafting mode, so I took a quick glance, said "How Handsome", and didn't really look close. A couple hours later, I was done crafting, the cousins went home, I got a phone call from my brother:

Him"Hey, Did you see what the boys did?"(chuckle, chuckle)

I was thinking-did they color on their parts-Yes, Jase has done this.

Me "No, what did they do?"

Him "Go look at your sons hair."

Me-realizing Jase cut their hair "Jase did you cut your hair?"

Jase-"Yeah, we wanted to look cool." Apparently their bangs weren't spiking into the mohawk

so they cut them off.

I guess it could have been worse, he could have decided to give Aleena a "Cool Mohawk".

Let It Snow!

The snow has been crazy around here. The kids have been loving it. It has definitely kept them entertained this week. Here are a few shots of them in the snow. This is one of the kids I babysit. She would stay outside all day.