(December 2014 - February 2015)
You are SO BIG. You keep growing and looking more and more grown up every day. You are becoming so beautiful! You are doing fantastic in school. At your latest conference the teacher told me that you are very smart and pick up new things easily. You love going to school, but you hate having to wake up early in order to go.
You are definitely not a morning person. I have to wake you up at 6:40 every morning so we can leave by 7:20. You spend the first ten minutes of each day just trying to open your eyes and roll out of bed! You must get that from your daddy.
A few gems from this winter….
December 2 - Look at those EYES!
December 3 - For lunch we usually have sandwiches or macaroni and cheese or something else easy and quick. Today I cooked instead and when Daddy came home you told him “Daddy! We had dinner for lunch!”
December 10 - Nerd night at AWANA - You just might be the cutest nerd I have ever seen!
December 14 - Sisters after church
December 15 - Nana & Grandpa took you and Jase to the Christmas parade downtown.
December 16 - You were an angel in the Christmas musical and you were beautiful!
December 18 - You decorated this little tree all by yourself. Hilarious. Adorable. I love it.
December 22 - I took you Christmas shopping at the Dollar Tree and let you pick out gifts for everyone you love. When we got home I put the shopping bags in the living room and told you not to get into them and then I went back to my bedroom. You started to look through them anyway and Daddy said this is the conversation that followed…
Daddy: Penny, what did Mommy say about getting into those sacks?
Penny: She told me not to. But I’m just going to look at the stuff and then put it back so she doesn’t know!”
Penny: She told me not to. But I’m just going to look at the stuff and then put it back so she doesn’t know!”
I guess you haven’t yet learned how to be deceitful, and I love that! Haha!
You are a fantastic big sister. So sweet to your baby sister!
Thinking about what you want for Christmas. :)
Bible stories at bedtime - a nightly tradition
December 24 - Christmas Eve at Nana & Grandpa's house
This is not really the best photo of us, but we are all in the same photo together, so I had to use it!
You were thrilled to watch everyone open your gifts!
One of the last photos I have of you with Uncle Drew. He passed away on January 18. He sure did love you!
December 24 - Leaving goodies for Santa before going to bed
December 25 - Christmas morning snuggles!
New slippers dance! You make Christmas more fun than it ever was before.
You got to buy gifts for everyone from the dollar store. You bought me this package of pom poms and were so delighted to give them to me!
Waiting for Uncle Caleb, Aunt Jenn, and the kids to arrive.
December 26 - Today you were so afraid of headphones. Great Grandma Dorothy got you some of your very own for Christmas but you said you didn’t like them. It turns out you thought they were meant to block out sounds and that if you wore them you wouldn’t be able to hear anything! Once Daddy plugged them into the iPad and showed you how they work you were ecstatic! They are now one of your favorite things.
December 29 - Today while you were imagining and pretending you kept talking about how you were going to go to a “glorious evening party.”
Twirling is your favorite.
And so is your baby sister.
December 30 - We met my friend Annie and her seven kids for some fun at the mall.
January 3 - You LOVE your new bed!
January 6 - A little conversation we had this morning…
Mommy: Look at the sky!
Penny: Which one?
Mommy: Out your window. Look at the sky!
Penny: Which one? WHAT GUY?
Mommy: Not “this guy,” THE SKY!
(Hahahahahaha!)
January 7 - You called the hammerhead shark a “hamster shark.”
January 9 - We went to San Antonio for Uncle Samuel's graduation from basic training. While we were on base you got to go bowling for the first time ever and you loved it!
We brought Jase with us on the trip and we stayed in an apartment with Nana & Grandpa. You and Jase shared a bedroom and you thought that was the greatest thing in the universe. You two had the best time together!
January 13 - I told you to curtsy and this is what you did. Haha!
January 14 - You two LOVE taking your baths together. So cute!
January 15 - A fun day at the aquarium with the Hefners
And then playing dress-up at home.
January 16 - An unusually warm day was just what we needed!
January 24 - We got a used bike from someone and today Daddy put the training wheels on it for you. You did not pick it up very quickly - it was very hard work for you!
January 26
January 28 - Play date with Natalie and Jenna!
January 30
January 31 - My cousin Kristin and her kids came to visit us not long ago and when they did, Hannah left these socks behind. They are now your favorite socks in the world.
February 3 - A pirate story by Penelope Palmer
Why is the lip gloss blue? So funny.
February 6 - Visiting Daddy at work and this was the best photo I could get of the three of you.
At our favorite store - Target!
Nana bought some new clothes for your baby and you were ecstatic!
February 8 - A sweet moment with Ariani
February 9 - You kept putting the sheet on Ari's head and she would pull it off and you two would just giggle and giggle. It was the cutest game of peek-a-boo!
This is a picture of you in my wedding dress. I loved how serious you got when you put it on.
Valentine hair!
February 11 - Silly carrot smile
Movie day with Jenna!
February 12 - What could be more fun than a giant box in the living room?
February 12 - Annual Valentine's date with Daddy
February 13 - I went to your Valentine's party at school and you gave me this mug that you decorated as a gift. The cutest!
We have had an old mattress in our living room for a while. It's so much fun!
February 14 - Family trip to the zoo!
February 16 - SNOW! We have waited all winter for some snow to play in and it finally arrived! We had the best time going sledding!
And you would not stop eating the snow!
February 18 - More fun with Jenna
February 20
We ran into Kenyon, your friend from school, and his family at the mall and you were both so excited to see each other!
February 22
February 25 - More Target love
February 26 - Lunch at the mall with Natalie
