daddy's girl...

penelope LOVES to watch daddy cut the grass.. and she looks like such a big girl while she is watchinghim...

she crawled over the window/door - starting baning on it and yelling "dadadada"  when daddy didnt hear her over the mower I had to run out and let him know his little lady was looking for a response! :)



cruising

penelope crusing along... getting close :)

happy mother's day!!

my first "real" mother's day.  although last year at this time we were pretty close to penelope being born, so I already thought it counted.

But now, with almost a year of parenthood under my belt... I have to say, I had no idea what I was in for.

you think you know, you can convince yourself you are ready.

but there is nothing like it in the entire world.

(although as I'm writing this post, she is screaming her head off cuz I had the audacity to put her bed.)

it's hard to believe my little pain in the butt is almost a year old and i've been a mommy for almost a year.  most of the time I still dont have a clue what i'm doing. but the one thing i do know - is there is nothing that child could ever do that would make me love her any less.  in fact - everything she does, good or bad, seems to make me love her more.

some days you dont think that's possible... but it is.  even though she is screaming right now.  top of her lungs impressive screaming..i know that when the ten minutes i'm going to let her cry is up... i'll go in there, pick her up, and she will give me the sweetest smile in the world.. and my heart will break a little and somehow love her even more.

my mom gave me a mother's day card today and wrote a note on it that said, "everything looks so different once you are in on the secret of parenthood - a love you never thought your heart could hold."

she said it perfectly. 

lots of things have changed in this past year, my priorities, my social life, my dress size, but most importantly i've changed.  a little person like penelope doesn't come into your life and not change you for the better...

so even though i'll still look longingly at those size four dresses...i wouldnt change any of it.  

and even though my hips are a different size - they are perfect cuz they fit penelope

and even though i dont have as much free time as I used to...all it takes is a smile and a hug from my baby to remind me that there is no place i'd rather be.

happy mothers day to all the moms out there - you are all amazing.  the hardest and most rewarding job in the world is yours... and you make it look effortless

and happy mothers day to all the mothers to be - you have so much to look forward to. you have no idea what you are in for - but it's an amazing ride.

and most importantly...to my little girl... penelope you are amazing, my favorite thing in in the world is to just be your mommy.

i will love you forever, i will love you more every day, you can never do anything to change that, and i will do anything in this world to make you happy.

thanks for letting be your mommy.  i will keep on trying to the best i can.

love you baby

"sock"?

Well we have what appears to be our first word. Penelope has tried saying some other words before - an attempt at gatsby, her version of puppy, and for one day - ball.

but yesterday it seems like a word finally stuck.  At least for two days.

I was folding the laundry and everytime I folded socks penelope put them in the basket for me.  i think her and grandma h do the laundry together on mondays.   So she is good at the socks.

and VERY proud of herself.

everytime she put one in, i'd hand her another and say "sock".

she evantually started repeating - or attempting to repeat.

penelope's version of "sock" is a lot more similar to a dirty word.

just replace the "s" with a "c"

it's pretty clear - i need to get it on video.

but it seems to have stuck.

she said it a few times today.

i'm so proud of my dainty little girl :)

easter part 2

we spent easter morning at home with mommy, daddy and gatsby then heading over to gma and gpa ds house that afternoon!

checking out her easter basket

manhandling her bunny

rockng her ears!

trying to catch bubbles

they keep getting away!

peneloe wore a vintage dress on easter day - mommy bought it a flea market  -it's from 1940!  gma fixed it up and penelope looked adorable! ( i love those bow on her head too!)

pretty dress (and pretty legs) from the back :)

looking for more eggs and presents! (like you didnt get enough!) :)

happy easter everyone! (this is a bit late!) :)

easter 2011 part 1

we had a great easter!  i'm a little behind on my posting but penelolpe had a great time and looked gorgeous!

we spent saturday with the hoffman side of the family...

pretty penny :)

smiling at her daddy :)

look at my pretty dress!

wearing her new hat from gma h and playing wiht her new ball from uncle kyle

rocking her new shades

hanging out iwth mackenzie and pink puppy (this is how pink puppy travels now)

who wants a sippy cup when you can have your own solo.

laughing with gma h

what a fun easter!

dying (or should i say eating) easter eggs

we made our first attempt at dying easter eggs a couple weeks ago... penelope was not super interested.. just wanted to eat the eggs...

notice the tongue sticking out and trying to eat the egg/drink the water

more egg eating.. and a blue food coloring handprint on the tray..

i think she has an egg hiding in each cheek.

penn's first egg!

crying because she dropped her egg

happy cuz mommy gave her an egg and a banana.

all of that for 3 eggs.

some new stuff....

penelope has been learning some new stuff lately.. thought i'd share in a hodge podge post - sorry - been lazy blogger lately!!

1. sippy cup!!  she loves it.  mommy doesnt love the mess she makes with it...

2. ball popper.  just recently discovered the beauty fo a ball popper.  this one was from aunt mickey... she loves to shoot the balls out and then chase then around the house... tortures poor gatsby!

3. peekaboo!  penelope LOVE peekaboo.  we play ALL the time lately!  She holds her arms up and peeks her eyes through and then has this adorable little expentant smile while she waits for you to say peek-aboo! and laugh... we do this before bedtime with pink puppy.. it's our new mommy/penny game... evne though she is able to sneak a few more minutes of cuddle time/staying up late  - i love the game.  i'd play forever.  she usually gets bored before me.

(peekaboo with my lens cap.. any object works. a  leaf, a lens cap, stuffed animal, piece of paper, bottle, food)

4.  standing right by the tv.  when yo gabba gabba is on she must be RIGHT by the television. it's soo adorable. i'm sure it's bad for her ears/eyes/whatever.. how freaking cute is she?

5.  sleepy girl... she still gets up super early but on the rare mornings where we have to wake penelope up...she's not exactly pleased about it... closes her eyes real tight and fights to go back to sleep for a minute. 

i love sleeping babies... so cute.  i have to fight the urge most nights to not pick her up out of bed and hold her when she is sleeping... just so sweet...

puppy love

i think i'm already told everyone about penelope's obsession with pink puppy and her love of dogs.  but now i'm pretty sure she loves just any sort of puppy - fake, real, whatever.

we stll our all our time favorite cuddle toy - pink puppy.  pink puppy goes everywhere.  she started out as a bed time friend, but quicky became an all the time friend...  in fact - for miss penelope's one year photos next month - pink puppy will be joining.

penelope's other stuffed puppy love is blue puppy.  we are very original with our names... she LOVES to hug and cuddle blue puppy.  if you tell her to kiss or hug him she gets really excited, crawls to blue then does a french kiss/hug combo. :)

i think we need a second dog in the house - after all, if its for penelope can daddy really say now?

nakey time!

i've been a bit blog lazy lately.. my apologies... having the house on the market does not lend to a lot of ree time in the evenings to catch up on my baby blogging.

however... in this blog i've given you a double freature...  the 10th month update... and nakey baby! 

10 months:

This child is out of control - i'm pretty sure she learns something new every day!!!

it's hard to keep up.

lately we are pulling up on everything, cruising around, learning to sit by bending the knees and the newest accomplishmnet... walking with a walker.  it's a mini heart attack for kris and i but penelope loves it.

unforntunatley she does not have much of house to do this walking in but we found one hallway that we just keep going up and down.

penelope isnt know for her patience either... a screaming fit ensues when she hits a wall or a piece of furniture. She cant' figure out how to go backyards yet and she just throws a fit til you turn her around.  so we just go back and forth for about 10 laps.  she has been sleeping pretty soundly though at night so i'mm pretty sure this walking thing is exhausting...

i dont think we have much longer til she takes off.  been trying to stand a lot on her own and can do it for a minute...then falls and gets pissed.

one thing we are noticing about penelope is soomething or someone hurts here - she has a MEAN look she will shoot its' way.  If she falls and hits a toy... after she has been approporiately cuddled by mommy or daddy... she whips her head around to glare at the offended toy that had the audacity to hurt her

good luck to the first kid at daycare or preschool who pisses her off...

food wise the chunker just keeps eating!    the one thing she got from her mother is terrible eating.  not a fan of many veggies but loves cheese and carbs.  we have to feed her veggies before she can see any pasta, cheese or fruit or the veggies wont happen.

still loves bananas.  however, she choked on bananas last night... coughed it up... pulled it out of her mouth and glared at that banana like she was going to destroy it.

again - dont piss this child off.

dancing is our other new trick.  still LOVES yo gabba gabba more than anything and likes to sit in front of the tv and watch her show and dance... video below...

i feel l iek i could go on forever as penelope is just changing so much everyday... new tricks, new attempts at works and just new pieces of her personality forming and breaking through... she's perfect.

now... onto the naked baby photos!!!!

does any get in her mouth?

if you have ever met my daughter.. it's clear she doesnt miss any meals.

but.. if you've ever watched my daughter eat... then you wonder how she is so chunky.

does any food ever actually make it's way in her mouth?

example 1:  banana stuck in chubby hand.

Example 2:  trying to eat, but all food appears to be on outside of her hand - any in mouth?

Example 3: we almost have a  victory - some in mouth... (it fell out shortly after this photo).

Example 4: all food is in her eyebrows.  no way any made it in mouth...

i stand corrected!  i see a noodle in there!