Briefly allowing anybody...

Hello friends and family,
I'm awake at 4:30am on Sunday. The day before the BIG DAY! Because of my last minute surge of hormones and paranoia, I went "invitation only" on the blog. However, some of my older family members are not able to log on or don't have a google account or maybe never got an invitation, so I'm briefly allowing anybody to read/stalk. I mainly have the need to show off Baby McCook arriving in just a little over 24 hours! Yippie!

Pictures and predictions will be posted today - just at a more reasonable hour.

Now...to try to go back to sleep...

Happy Birthday Mack and Swirl

Can not, can not get a good picture of us with dogs! I wonder about those people that have professional portraits made with their dogs! How does that happen? Well, it does NOT happen at the McCook house.
Mack and Swirl - brother and sister - were Collin's Christmas present from Santa last year. They are part St. Bernard and part Louisiana Coutoula Leopard Dog (we hear they are anyway). We know they are part St. Bernard for sure.

For their first birthday, they received extra amounts of Pupcorn - their favorite doggie treat!

I should also say that even though Collin prayed to have a dog from June - December last year, Matt is the one who really takes care of them and plays with them. I am allergic to dogs and never thought we would be a pet family because of this (well and the fact that Matt hates cats).

And cousin Jenny - I promise I will post my most recent pregnant picture before next Monday just for you!

Fall Break

Last Fall Break we had a GREAT trip to New Mexico! This year not going anywhere because in 9 days we will have baby 3. So everyone got to pick something they really wanted to do here in town. Here are/were the plans...

Katie - wants to have family game night - this always involves her favorite game Hullabaloo - thank you Aunt Reese. When Chandler turns 4, I know what I'm getting him!

Collin - wants to stay in his jommies all day - we can totally do that for 3 days!

Mommy - wants to go to the movies - doesn't matter which one, just to see something on the big screen before new one arrives

Daddy - wants to play golf and/or go to bookstore

As of Saturday morning, we've done them all but the family game night. So you know what's happening at our house tonight: Hullabaloo!

Oooh...must go now. Sugary jumpstart (aka donuts) has arrived!

Sly Dog

Katie to Daddy: "You are holding my hand. You sly dog."

Where does she get this? Oh wait, it's from another movie that I might decide to ban from our house..."It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."

Oh dear.

I have a thing for drama

Collin's first performance of the year at Edmond Fine Arts Institute! Here he plays the part of the fat, green bug in the play "The Ugly Green Bug"! He was an awesome fat, green bug!
Collin playing the role of the lamp in the "There's a Nightmare in My Closet". Did you know one could have a part as a lamp?

Collin is a shark that turns to a guppy in a friend's "pretend box" play. All the kids in class get a chance to look through the pretend box and then write or help write their own play. These are often the most funny plays. You really get to step inside the mind of a 5 and 6 year old.

Collin's pretend box play was about a magician with some bad hands. Apparently a potion this magician had made years ago had gone terribly wrong and turned his hands into monster hands.

One of his potions students tried to help him get rid of the horrible hands but instead he melted.

Collin and I are reading Harry Potter #2 right now...thus the wizard teaching potions, although he said he was not playing Snape, he was a completely different potions teacher. And one of his favorite movies is the Wizard of Oz, so of course he had to melt.

We SO enjoy seeing Collin's productions. He is definitely in his element.

Soccer Monster

Katie has called herself a "soccer monster" since Halloween of 2008. Have you seen the Halloween Backyardigans movie? Well, I know you will want to check it out. There is a very fine episode about soccer in that movie. Here is our Kate, the soccer monster.
Her first soccer game.

Today (not this picture) Katie kicked the ball from half-court (or whatever you call it in soccer) and scored her first goal!!! We are so proud!


Having fun at half-time. Katie and her friend on her right have to be split up during the games because they tend to distract each other OR you might say they have fun and forget they are playing soccer.



Katie likes to taunt the ref by trying to kick the ball away from him.

You will often see our sweet Coach Lesley redirecting our little Kate.

Matt thinks Katie would rather play golf instead of soccer. She tends to gravitate toward the out of bounds flags...just to make sure they are firmly planted.

Run this way Kate.

Coach Lesley and the Sassy Sisters: A, C, A, Katie, M, M, C, R...just in case other mommies don't want their kid's names or pictures broadcast on my blog. It's only read by my family, a few friends AND an anonymous member of the community who has yet to come forward. But maybe that person only liked to read my blogs about Europe. Yep, those were their favorite.

"Oplahoma" State Fair

Katie and Collin had a great time at the "Oplahoma" (as Miss Kate says) State Fair. They loved petting all the animals.
They also rode every kid ride in Lil' Pardner Land. Well, some of the rides Katie wasn't tall enough for but she did NOT throw any fits tonight! It was great! I was so proud of her!

Katie is in car 3 and Collin is in the last car - with his hands up! At Europa Park (a fun and funny copy of Euro Disney in Rust, Germany), he vowed to NEVER ride another roller coaster again. But here he is on the kid coaster and was the only one with his hands up!

We also saw a magic show at the fair. Collin was called up on stage to assist. He did great!

Daddy was also called up on stage to assist. He did great too!

We also saw a lumberjack show. Collin and Katie got a small chair cut out of a hunk of wood and it is now signed by the 9 time world champion of log rolling! Yea! We also went to a hypnotist show. Matt tried to be hypnotized and it did not work on him. I was ready with the video camera just in case. But the rest of the show was hilarious and honestly I was a little glad he was not up there doing those crazy things. He does enough crazy things when he is awake.