penny, pull up your diaper!

aww, but my buns itch!





i guess i wouldn't be happy about wearing a diaper 24/7... not sure what was going on this night but she kept pulling her diaper down- doesn't do it anymore...

hair

now for those of you who just adore penny's curls and find it hard to believe that one day she will resent those luscious locks, it's only because you don't get to see this...













we think she was trying to grow dreads... as her mother i love her cute curls, but oh man it is not fun in the mornings! the pictures don't quite do it's justice but you get the idea. i have saved a few good hair mornings to share with the play group. sorry penny!

my little monkey

it only seemed appropriate that penny be a monkey for halloween. she is quite the climber and hangs on me all the time. i must say she made a cute little monkey. charlotte stopped by and we tried our hand at trick or treating. oh man did they like it. they caught on pretty quick... it was really cute to hear charlotte say happy halloween and for penny to say trick or treat. pen was really strutting her stuff down that street.



it was a little warm in the house...







penny didn't quite understand you weren't supposed to go in the house.


otterpops to end the evening. maybe next year she can have some candy she collected :)


little monkey hands...

October Birthdays!

David, lea and marc's birthdays are all in october. actually marc and lea share the same birthday- pretty random and fun! so in the grand tradition of sharing, we celebrated all birthdays in one evening. you would think i would post some pictures of the birthday peeps... nope. apparently penelope didn't grasp that this event was not about here. she was right in the middle of it all, "helping".


mmm... you going to eat all that?



shooz...



i guess this one is for you, again :(



look gramps!




here dad, you look like you could use some help


i can almost hear her say, "mine"

surprise surprise...

apparently i have not been as good as i thought i would about this blog. but here are some more pictures with what we have been doing...

about a month ago Anjuli, manoah, kelly, noah, mia, kara, kaden, penelope and I all went to the Wild Animal Park. after quite some time of playing and watching overheated animals, someone had the great idea to take the kids on the tram ride. kara wised up to this and decided she needed to get going so that left the rest of us- 3 toddlers, 1 new born and only 3 adults (we are out numbered here). we arrived to the line just as a tram was taking off... it was actually pretty fun and funny to see us all trying to confine them in the line. me on the ground feeding them crackers, granola bars and watching them crawl under the bars and anjuli chasing them down... don't you wish you could have been there? after 15 minutes of that another tram came and as we all said a prayer that we would get on that one, but alas we were 10 people away from the cut off. thankfully about 5 minutes later another one came and we had prime seating arrangements :) but really by the time we got on the tram they were into it, (well for the first 10 minutes at least) and we all had a good time. yes i would do it again :)






look at their excitement... the pictures say it all! geez moms, have you had your fun yet? can we please go now?



Gali, Penelope and I went to the childrens museum a few weeks ago. they had a great time...



they really played well together



and learned about earthquakes...


they were standing on balance board type things that simulated different types of earthquakes.

BUBBLES!


oh man did they have fun with this... they were a little upset when it was time to go :(

play day mondays

Mondays are a time when a group of us gets together and the kids play while we moms hang out... our newest edition to the group is mino. i call it mino mondays around here because penelope and i have the privilege of watching mino on mondays. here are some pictures from the this past monday when we all were hanging out at our place.


Charlotte, penny and manoah... did not get one picture where they were all looking at the camera


penelope and manoah, he's such a heartbreaker :)





Manoah showing us his teeth :)


mino mondays... he loves the camera!





penelope was trying to play with mino, such the helper...

i was bummed i didn't have the camera out when i flipped mino on his tummy for some "tummy time" because she laid down with him to do her tummy time, and they both started laughing. she loves to help hold his bottle and make sure he has his pacifier... hopefully she will be this helpful and loving when her little sister comes around :)

The Great Pumpkin Patch

saturday we headed up to bates nut farm to select our pumpkins... penelope had a great time climbing through all the pumpkins trying to find the very best to take home.






It took some convincing but once she was in the jump house it was hard to get her out! she had a great time running full speed and wiping out :)






hay rides on a tractor...


and fed the animals... i thought this one was going to kiss her :)

it was the perfect Fall day and we had a great time. perhaps we will make another visit but with a costume... if we can ever decide what she should be for halloween.

Just some fun around the house...

here are some pictures i found and most of them are from lazy saturdays around the house... enjoy!


penelope has been giving us some great looks recently... i will have to try and catch a few more to really show what i mean.


otter pops (pop-pop)


the boots are compliments of grandma mavany...the fire is compliments of david.


david really had to ask who manoah was in this picture- it's an oldy :)


last saturday i had the pleasure of watching kaden (kara and dan's little boy). although we all had a great time, it gets pretty exhausting chasing after two toddlers who are going in different directions... my hats of to those of you with twins! apparently kaden likes to wrestle- here are a few shots.






I am pretty sure kaden won the match- and no children were harmed in the process... all smiles.