Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Just waiting for sister chloe...

"on time is when i get there." a saying made known by grandma martha (verdugo)

i have always thought penelope to be more of a verdugo than a wiese... she looks like a verdugo and sleeps like one (she has the "condition") and i am starting to realize that her sister chloe is going to be even more so a verdugo. whose second kid doesn't come on-time or early even? so we are waiting for her to make her grand entrance into this world, in her own time... unless we have to induce- then she will be forced to come and more than likely not be happy about it :)

so as we all wait, and try to be patient these are some of the things we have been doing to occupy our time until the newest addition to our family arrives...


Doctor's visits and grandma

peneleope gets to hang out with grandma mavany while i go to the doctors office- which is once a week these days! good thing grandma works at a pre-school and is the director so she can let penny play on the playground anytime she wants... i think pen is ready for preschool :)





david is on the other end of the teeter-toter


San Diego Zoo
we took an adventure down to the zoo to say hi to monkeys and with all the walking david and penny needed to take a moment on the footsie wootsie... pretty funny.




A new sling...
i never tried one with penny but i got one for chloe, thinking that i would be using one a little more. apparently you can use it for kids up to 35lbs. david was curious and wanted to try it out- so we asked pen to be our model and she was into it... hopefully chloe will like it too!





Little Big Planet...
have a ps3? you NEED this game. she makes requests to, "watch games"





the mall...
since the weather has been so poor- either raining, wet or cold (for us sad so cal residents) we have taken to the play area in the mall. then i go for nice long walks and pen is my companion- trying to walk sister chloe out... but pen doesn't seem to mind because we often meet up with friends and get pretzels.






CHLOE!! hurry up, i want to be a big sister!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

rogue river, or

my mom, bless her heart, took penelope on new years eve on a little road trip up to my parents new home in rogue river, or. (it is just on the other side of the oregon border) she is braver than i, but apparently penelope did really well. and i can attest because we (david and i) drove up a few days later to get her and check out my parents new place- and she was amazing on the drive home... we drove straight through with one 2 hour break for dinner. and she only slept for 2 hours of it! however while in oregon we had a great time exploring and experiencing the cold...


pen and gramps checking out the scenery...



david and penelope watching ducks get it on (no joke)



getting so big- swinging on her own :)







this is right after she took a header off the bridge we were playing on... she's a trooper



penelope and her milk...

Christmas!

i found the christmas pictures! the thing is we don't have one location that photos end up... i suppose that is the curse of the digital age and having 3 different computers we use.

Christmas was a bit different this year... i must say penelope was way into presents and she had plenty to open! i can see why my parents always loved christmas morning with us. i guess the hard part will be to drill into her the purpose of christmas and pray that she understands it and will grow to love to give gifts as much as she likes to get the presents :)

it was hard to not have my parents around this year- it is an adjustment, we went from craziness of previous years to a very mellow day, didn't leave the house. it would be nice to have a balance of the chaos and calm- i know one day we will strike that balance :)









the night of the sweater party mavany and penelope made a gingerbread house. well mavany made a house and penny decorated a tree...