Life of Allison

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My little cupcakes

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Clay and Alli snacking on a mini cupcake. Yummmm!

Thanksgiving Feast

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Today at preschool, Shaylee and Alli had their Thanksgiving feasts. Alli’s teacher said she was a good eater. She tried everything and ate it all gone. They also said that she was usually the last one finished during snack time. :) Thats my girl!

Oso De Oro park

2008-11-20T16:12:00.000-08:00

Clay playing in the sand at Oso De Oro park.

Alli can do the monkey bars all by herself, all the way from beginning to end! Way to go Alli!

Alli just loves feeding the ducks!

Alli and Shaylee!

The duck pond at the park...what beautiful fall colors! (ok, maybe not in this picture).

Pretty fall colors!

The dock where you can see and feed the ducks on the pond.

The girls love to sit on the bear right before we leave.

Shaylee, Allison and Grace (oh and Clay...he is in the stroller almost asleep) had a wonderful day at the park.

Silly Bath Time

2008-11-20T16:04:00.000-08:00

One thing the kids like doing in the bath tub is making faces against the glass to me. So funny!!!

Under the Door

2008-11-19T10:35:00.000-08:00

Allison and Clay like to play under the door to each other.

Allison likes to slide her belt under and then wait for Clay to grab it. Finally he will let go and she will take it back for a minute and then slide it under again. They will do this over and over.

Ice Cream Cone Lickers

2008-11-19T10:34:00.000-08:00

Clay and Allison LOVE ice cream! Tonight Clay finally figured out how to lick a cone. It was really funny to watch.

Standing on the train

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Clay likes standing on anything and everything.

Talking to Nana

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Allison was talking to Nana on the bluetooth headset. She thought that was neat!

Dress-Up with Clay and Grace

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Clay and Grace were playing dress up. It was a little sad because all we have are girl dress up clothes. Clay seemed to think his skirt was rather funny.

I think Grace was wearing everything from Alli’s dress up box.

Mommy's Roast

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Allison loved Mommy’s roast and cream peas. A favorite dish of mine from childhood. She didn’t care for the potatoes and carrots though! We usually end up having several veggies to eat because both of my kids would rather veggies than meet (except this night).

Sunglasses

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Clay sporting Grace’s sunglasses.

Ranch Sauce

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Clayton eating celery and ranch dressing.

Hermit Crab #1 drinking water

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Our first crab drinking from his water bowl. However, we are sad to say that several days after we got this crab, it died. We are now happy owners of a new crab!

The Pumpkin Patch

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Our trip to the Pumpkin Patch with her preschool class.

The Hayride

Allison’s preschool class plus a few other friends.

A fun day!

Feeding the sheep

Clay is feeding the sheep. He loved feeding the animals.

This is how Clay picked out his pumpkin.

Alli carried her pumpkin.

We had a great day in group no. 1 at the pumpkin patch.

Clay and the remote

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Clayton asks to be put in the chair and handed the remote. What a boy!

Allison's first Hermit Crab

2008-11-07T10:59:00.000-08:00

Allison got her first Hermit Crab. She has been saving up her money to buy one for a long time. She wanted one with a painted shell, but all of those shells were empty so we got this one. He is pretty active. She wants two, but she has to save up some more money for her next one. Maybe she can get a painted shell one then.

Clayton's fat lip

2008-11-07T10:56:00.000-08:00

Clay ran into the wall and got a fat lip.

He is always falling and getting hurt...poor little guy. I hope he gets some better coordination soon!

What Alli taught Clay

2008-11-06T14:33:00.000-08:00

This is what my wonderful daughter taught Clay to do...eat dried blueberries off the floor. I had to put an end to this quickly after I took a couple pics.

Allison and her baby

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Allison and her baby. She made a wrap for her baby so that she could carry her better.

This is quite the outfit! :)

Toilet paper/eye roll

2008-11-05T11:09:00.000-08:00

Allison decided that the toilet paper roll needed 75 eyes! Yikes!!!

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Sleepy Clayton...Allison made him a little pillow out of her blankie. What a sweet sister!

Clay's Leaves

2008-11-04T12:45:00.000-08:00

Clay liked the leaves!

I told him to lay in the leaves and he laid in them belly down.

It was a nice fall day today.

All bundled up and ready to go play in the leaves .

Alivia's sock

2008-11-03T22:45:00.000-08:00

Clay was trying to put Alivia’s sock back on her foot. It didn’t go to well for him. :)

Feeding Alivia

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Clay loved giving Alivia her bottle.

Allison feeding Alivia her cereal while I made dinner. She told me, “Mommy, I sure would like a little baby like this”. I told her she had a little baby like that, he just grew up and his name is Clay. She just smiled.

What a good job Alli did! I think the only problem at times was that she wasn’t going fast enough! :)

Sleepy Clay

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Sleepy Clay... Allison made him a little pillow to sleep on with her blankie! What a great big sister!

Cotter and Sargent Kids

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Shaylee and Allison laughing at the movie “Tarzan 2”.

Grace and Clay sharing the little couch.

Jammie girls

2008-11-02T19:18:00.000-08:00

Shaylee and Alli were pretending to go night night, but then they woke up and decided to mop and sweep.

New Jammies for Clay

2008-11-01T22:38:00.000-07:00

Clayton got these new jammies from Shaylee. They were her car jammies when she was one (or maybe 2).

Allison and Clayton riding the train. Allison loves her little brother!

Alli's Dragon

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My little dragon.

Halloween Party

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Happy Halloween

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Allison had a fun costume parade at her preschool! She was very proud of her dragon costume. In the back ground are her teachers, Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. Shoemaker.

Here is Allison’s Halloween outfit and the trick or treat bag she made at school.

Clay was a little pumpkin for Halloween! Isn’t he just adorable?

Clay's Owie-Day 5

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Clay's follow-up Dr. Appt

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Clay's Big Owie

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Allison's haircut

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A Trip to the ER for Clayton

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New Family Website

2008-02-03T22:20:00.001-08:00

Check out our new family website at cotterhome.com

Clay and his play mat

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Nana, Papa, Allison and Clay

2007-11-22T18:09:00.000-08:00

We went to Napa for Thanksgiving to see Nana, Papa, Grandma Chris, Aunt Jill, Uncle Chip and Aunt Sue. We had a great time!

First bites of rice cereal

2007-11-12T18:03:00.000-08:00

Clay wasn't fond of his first bites of cereal. I was really excited that he could eat cereal now, but it didn't go as well as I liked...he didn't care for it one bit!

Testing Testing 123

2007-01-25T22:32:00.000-08:00

Mommy and Daddy are testing a new site for my blog. They have migrated over every pic and post and are trying it out for a while. What do you think?
www.lifeofallison.wordpress.com

At Grandma and Grandpa Smethers house!

2007-01-13T20:35:00.000-08:00

Grandma and Grandpa Smethers (and me of course)

I'm cuddling with Chucky!

Grandma Pat is reading me a book. She likes reading books to me.

Now I'm cuddling with Cracker.

Grandma Pat and me!

2007-01-13T20:34:00.000-08:00

This is the bike that Mikayla got for her birthday. It used to be a really old rusty bike but one of her relatives fixed it all up to look like new. I really liked her bike.

2007-01-13T20:32:00.000-08:00

Kelly, Mikayla's mommy, and I were helping Mikayla open up her present from me. I got her a Color Wonder set for her birthday.

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I would patiently wait until Mikayla got started on opening her presents and then I got to help her. I got just as excited as her once the presents were opened.

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Here we are eating pizza and cake.

Happy Birthday Mikayla!

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Mikayla and I at her second birthday party!

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Daddy asked me if I wanted to be a bug in a rug and of course I said "yes". I love being a bug in a rug! The next night I tried to tell them that I wanted to be a bug in a rug again, but Mommy and Daddy had a hard time understanding what I was trying to say until I went and got the blanket.

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Daddy got Mommy a new camera for Christmas since she wore out the other by taking so many pictures of me. This is the first picture taken of Mommy and me with her new camera. She really likes her new camera.

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I'm modeling my new boots. I got these fancy boots from Aunt Lyndsey and Cousin Noah. I really like to wear them!

2007-01-01T22:57:00.000-08:00

Here I am helping Daddy put leaves in the green trash can. I LOVE to help him pick up leaves. He lets me play in them for a little bit first.

2006-12-31T22:54:00.000-08:00

I'm laying in the bassinet. I used it as a baby and I still like to climb up in it and lay down (Mommy tells me not to though).

2006-12-29T15:25:00.000-08:00

This is all of us (except Nana who was taking the picture and me who was sleeping still) at our Christmas dinner. Daddy was being silly!

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I got a Rudolf from Mimi and Pappa! I was a bit scared of him in the beginning but now I really like him.

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Mommy took my picture in front of our tree. This is my Christmas dress.

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These are my new monkey jammies that I got from Mommy and Daddy!

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I also got a kitchen! I LOVE my kitchen!!

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When we got home from Napa, we had more presents to open. I got some Tinkerbell big girl panties from Mimi and Pappa.

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Grandma Chris and me right before she had to leave for the evening. I was sad to see her leave! I can actually say "Grandma Chris" now. She was excited about that.

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Uncle Ryan and me spending some time together.

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Nana gave me a "baby" cup to drink from. It was just like the big cups that Mommy and Daddy used, but just my size. I LOVED my baby cup.

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Here I am eating my Christmas dinner.

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Mommy and Daddy started eating without me. They knew I would not be a happy camper if they woke me up for lunch so they enjoyed a nice, peaceful Christmas dinner while I slept. I got to eat when I woke up.

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I fell asleep right after we were done opening presents.

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I was telling my baby to stay in her seat, the iron is hot.

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I love my baby Sydney!

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Nana and Papa got me a Cabbage Patch baby. Her name is Sydney Malia.

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I got the hang of opening presents really fast. I wanted to open up everybody's.

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I'm ironing with my new iron and ironing board.

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I got a Color Wonder set from Mimi and Pappa.

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I was helping Daddy open up his present.

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A family picture.

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I got some books from Santa!! I LOVE books!

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I changed my clothes for opening up presents. I saw that everyone else was all dressed up and I wanted to be dressed up too.

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I'm sitting with the Santa Claus pillow now.

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These are my Christmas Eve jammies. It is now Christmas morning and I am waiting patiently to open up my presents.

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I'm sitting with the little girl and little boy.

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I have my stocking. Santa left me presents in it!

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Here is where I put my cookies for Santa!

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I have lipstick on!!

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Aunt Jill is putting lipstick on me!

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I'm making cookies for Santa Claus.

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I'm still posing.

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I'm posing for a picture.

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I'm posing for a picture.

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Pretty little princess!

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Here I am taking a picture on the stairs at Nana and Papa's house.

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Mommy and me in our Christmas outfits.

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Here is the most recent picture of my new sibling. This is a picture of the baby looking at me.

A Picture Share!

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A Picture Share!

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A Picture Share!

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A Picture Share!

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Here is a picture of Daddy's new car. It is a Jetta TDI.

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Nana and I reading a book together. I have a new favorite thing...I like my body (toes especially) all wrapped up with my blankie.

2006-12-06T18:41:00.000-08:00

I was eating ice cream and birthday cake.

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Papa and his birthday cake.