cousins

as you may have noticed from my holiday pictures.. penelope loves her cousin calvin and babies in general.  we have been planning a visit to KC for a few weeks now so I have been showing penny picutres of calvin and talking about our visiting and working on his name.

she didnt disappoint :)  loved him just as much as teh first time she saw and him and loved "helping" with him. she even said he name, called him "baby cow-en"  (had a hard time with the LV letter combo).

she also did amazing on the drive.  we timed it well for the way up.  left a little before lunchtime at 11.  drove for an hour - stopped for lunch at mcdonalds and let her eat and run aroudn the play place.  then back in the car where she fell asleep for 1.5 hours. I think she may have slept longer but we hit a standstill on the highway for 30 mins while a bridge accident was cleared.  i think the not moving woke her up.  however, she was great.  we just got her set up with Gabba on the ipod and one of her guys.  when an episode ended she just handed it back to us.  she was fanstasic for the last 2 hours.

alos did great for the visit.. we hung around the house on friday night and i was nervous how she would sleep - but she went down at 8 w/out a complaint and slept til 6.  a little earlier than normal but we were good with that.  she did great on saturday too - we went to union station to visit their science city which was an awesome city musuem/science center blend - loved it.  then aslo hit up crown center for some wandering around and burgers.  We ate at fritzs were you order food from a phone and the table and a train goes aroudn the ceiling then delivers the food to yoru table.  penny LOVED that.

but back to the cousins.. they were soo cute.. calvin sort of looked at penny wiht a mixture of fear, curiousity and annoyance. penny jsut looked at him with complete excitement at this lifelike toy. i tink she really wanted us to leave them alone so she could drag him all around :)

she loved giving him his paci and we put her on paci patrol.  if calvin cried she would run to lisa or kevin and say "he cying" "he cying" (she skips the "r"). then tell them he needed a paci or a baba.

she loved to hold the baba and hold the baby.  sometimes she jsut wanted to touch him or sit by him.  if he was crying and she was giving him a paci and it didnt work she would point her finger at his face and so "no no baby no no."  (she msut have confused him for a dog during that...)

overall they both did amazing... can't wait to see what sort of troubel these too get into down the road :)