"Tornado Allie"

After a long day of cleaning up after her, I thought I would share some examples of why Chaz dubbed her "Tornado Allie". Instead of quietly waiting in her bed and playing with her toys until I get up, like she used to do, Allie now goes downstairs to turn on the tv and immediately commence her destruction. It doesn't take her long. Usually, Papaw will catch her before she gets into too much trouble....but not this morning. She got into a bottle of his glucose test strips....he found the bottle and has yet to find the strips. He eventually found the meter in the living room.

Moving on to breakfast....

Following the old example of her brothers, she immediately took her piece of toast into the living room to eat....a habit we're trying to break her of as we had to break all of us of. I fixed some milk in some regular cups since all of the sippy cups were in the dishwasher and Allie immediately takes off in a sprint, holding her cup with two hands as instructed, but still sloshing milk all over the place. I quickly catch her and instruct her to drink her milk next to me. Surprisingly, she complies without hiding her head or crying.

We're ok during lunch and naptime...except for more toys strewn all over her bed. At dinnertime, Pa fixed her some milk in a sippy cup that has a straw in it....it should still be non-spillable but of course spills on the couch. The problem is that Michelle, the greatest lady in the world who helps with the housecleaning, had just removed all of the cushion covers and washed them and replaced them. So frustrating!!!!

Bathtime should be a time of cleanliness....Allie put all of the puppy food in the bathtub with her. After that, she climbs into bed to quietly watch Little Einsteins with daddy but quietly gets out of bed and gets into some vitamins and spills them all over the floor as well as Josh's legos. The boys are great about cleaning up after her or helping her clean up. If anyone ever needs their home babyproofed, Allie is the test to making sure there's nothing that can be gotten into! She does try to help with some things....like laundry. She likes to bring me "flowers" which are really weeds...not even dandelions...just weeds from the backyard. Or she'll pick the grapes and run in the house and just toss them on the floor.

It's exhausting keeping up with her....but usually she will just stay by mommy. It's when mommy is distracted...even for a moment...that the storm begins.