Meticulous

Penny can be very meticulous about arranging her toys. Here she had her farm set arranged on her high chair. Also, exhibit number 1,000 that Tray is a much better photographer than I am.

My Pillow

From a few days ago - Penny rocking herself in the rocking chair while hugging the pillow I made for her nursery. So sweet. Also, notice how she is crossing her toes on her right foot. She does this all the time. And so does her Daddy. It's a genetic trait that they share. I can't cross my toes. That Mendel and his crazy pea patch...

Reading

Genius? Total fluke? (And is there a difference? Discuss.)
This weekend I was making out a grocery list while holding Penny in my lap. I talk to her a lot when I do things and said each word aloud as I wrote them down (and also so Tray could hear what I was writing so he could add anything I didn't list). When I finished, I let Penny color on the paper with the pencil while I continued talking with Tray. She scribbled a bit and then took the pencil and poked at the word "catfood" and said, "catfood." Total fluke, right? Still kinda cool though.

Beanbag Jumping

A new olympic event: beanbag jumping. She does this all the time on her own. Any encouragement heard being made by me was done for purposes of filming only... :)

Too Cool for School

I'm going to try to post some backlogged pictures and maybe another short video or two. Here is Penny one day last week after she figured out how to put her hands in her pockets. She's been walking around with her hands in her pockets all the time now since then. Some of the other shots I have of her make her look like she's soooo cool standing there, but I like this one because she is laughing.

Chicken Video

To go with my previous post:



I love how at one point she does the math - she sees one chicken while she's patting another and goes, "two chickens." Like, "I think...wait...yep. there's two chickens. huh. how 'bout that."

Chee-kens

You may have seen the advertisements for ACE Hardware stores this past weekend. They had a 20% off sale - 20% off of anything that you could fit into a bag. Tray needed some fishing line, so he figured why not buy it from ACE and get it 20% off? But then, he had this big giant Publix bag with only two boxes of fishing line in it, so he decided to fill his bag with chickens. Uh-huh, chickens. Four baby chickens.

Penny is in love. Actually, we all are (well, maybe not Lindy and Jake). They are so cute, and really very personable. Our favorite is Comet. She's a Golden Comet, and is very bold and will come and sit on your knee. I forgot already what the other three are, but one is littler than all the rest and I have a soft spot for her too. This afternoon the other three were blocking her from getting to the feeder and I moved them to let her eat. I have to look out for the little ones. ;)

Penny is completely fearless with them. We had them in a pet carrier while we converted our old dog pen into a chicken pen and when we set the carrier down to let them out, Penny stuck her whole arm into the carrier trying to fish the chickens out. I think she thinks they are like stuffed animals that she can just do whatever with, but she is actually very gentle with them -- and surprisingly doesn't get scared if they flap their wings or anything. She's so cute offering them chicken feed too, "here chee-kens. here's a num-nums." She cracks me up!






Tray with Comet: