Singing

Dear posterity:

Both Spencer and I have terrible singing voices. Which is interesting because miss penny lyn LOVES to be sung to? It us basically the only way I get her to go to sleep! Well that and nursing her into a drunken stupor.
Some other interesting things about our baby girl.
She loves her solid food! Interesting because she is TINY! Like "I'm 8 months old and still wearing my 3-6 month clothes" tiny!!! She likes to eat at 9 am 12 noon and 5 pm. Pretty much on the dot!
Penny loves animals. She us just like grace and Spencer.
She loves to look in mirrors. As a matter of fact, if she even sees her reflection in a car window she flips!
She has begun to babble. I love it when she whispers while looking in a mirror.
I was just thinking today that I needed to write some thugs down about Miss Lyn. I love this girl. She is super high needs. Although I an seeing a little more independence in her. Halla-freaking-Lu-ya! But I love her love for me. I mean, she loves me fat or skinny. Pretty or frumpy. Good voice, bad. She loves me just the way I am! There aren't too many people in this world that can claim that kind of love!

It's the little things

Dear Posterity:

The other night we had a tea party. Grace had been wanting to have one all day. It was make shift at best. But it turned out that the whole experience melted my heart and filled me with love for my little family. Such a fun memory for me.

Love,
Someone that needed to be reminded how much she loves her family

Nighttime

Dear Posterity:

Riding in the car with Grace. Penny screaming. I asked grace why she kept coming into out bed last night. Her reply....

"cuz when little boys and girls get scared at night they come to their mommy and daddy's bed"

Case settled.

Love,
Mom that had both children in her bed last night

These are some pictures from my phone

1. Penny in the car stroller at thanksgiving.
2. Sometimes I give Penny a cookie to keep her happy while I accomplish something.
3. Spencer and Grace in the new play tent Thingy. Reading. Melt my freaking heart!
4. Grace and Penny. One of the few times Penny was actually happy while Grace held her.
5. Penny and Emily ( my best friend kami's baby). Emily is one month younger and way bigger. And taller, and happier. And she sleeps more...it's ok. I still love Penny.
6. Grace and Presley after grace got back from preschool. I love the pilgrim hat!
7. One time the girls and I went for a walk. Some cat followed us home. And then I gave Penny and bath. And when I came out Grace had gotten this cat food! Lucky I put it outside and by morning it was gone. But not before she named it "headband"...
8. Penny LOVES the crazy bread!!
9. I put lights up. They are 100% white trash and I LOVE them!
10. Penny trying on her Christmas dress. To die for!
11. Grace falling asleep cuddling with Coco.

Trapped!

Dear posterity:

Spencer and I make high needs babies. Now when I say that, I don't mean that our babies get gas at night and cry for an hour!
No, I mean the following...

1. Penny refuses bottles. Not even with breast milk! She will only nurse. As a matter of fact she just recently decided that she would eat solid foods. Which is nice because she doesn't nurse every hour!

2. Penny WILL NOT. I repeat, WILL NOT take naps in her bed. She will however take them in my arms. If I lay her down her eyes pop opened, and then she screams! Ugh! I have tried to let her cry it out, but she will cry for 2+ hours! Next week I am going to crack down...as for now, I am sitting on the couch watching desperate housewives with penny asleep!

3. Penny won't play! She wants to be in my arms ALL DAY LONG! No joke! She won't play in her saucer. She won't play on the floor. She won't even play on the floor in a room with me next to her. Nope, she wants to be in the comfort of my arms all day. So she ends up in the sling while I clean, and cook, and get ready...and do pretty much anything! Which is really annoying. Hence me never getting ready, or having a clean house.

So basically I am trapped by my sweet, out of control cute baby! Somedays I develop a twitch, somedays I eat whole pizzas. Somedays I eat 25 Ginger snaps dipped in 1/2 half and half.
Basically I attribute my fat butt to penny's inability to self entertain!

It's a good thing she is so dang cute, an smiles at me a lot!

Grace

Dear posterity:

Grace never poses for me. I can understand. There isn't much I hate more than getting pictures. Nothing like a picture to make you feel awful!

So I can see were graces dislike of photos comes from. But she's cute and I want pictures of her!

I was so glad that she got into pictures before her birthday party.
Check her out

Halloween

Dear posterity:

I LOVE Halloween. It is such a fun holiday, I love the decor, candy. Everything! But this year I am fairly certain I has a panic attack on Halloween night!
It all started at the beginning of the month. We decided to redo our bathroom. It's all fun and games till your bathroom is still in the process of getting redone on Halloween. Not only was it still getting redone, but our kitchen and bathroom sinks were broken. Therefore our house was out of control! I had done our dishes in the bathtub the night before. I had the beginnings of Thrush...again for like the SEVENTH time in 6 months.
It would seem that a panic attack would have already taken place. BUT, for some strange reason I was cool as a cat!
It wasn't in till halloween night. Penny would fall asleep for her afternoon nap. She didn't find it fit to fall asleep till right before we needed to start getting costumes on. Now if you know penny at all, you know she hardly EVER sleeps. So it wasn't like I could just wake her up. Every fiber in my body wouldn't let me wake her! So we were running late.
There was so much to do! Ward party, 3 sets of grandparents, AND we had to trick or treat with grace. So I was feeling pressured. Then I realized that it was dark outside and I wouldn't get good pictures! Ugh! Still I was staying pretty calm.
It wasn't till we got in the car and got behind THE SLOWEST DRIVER EVER, that I started to freak out! And then I've kinda been in a bad mood ever since.
But besides that...our girls were pretty dang cute. I present Wendy and tinker bell.