Getting Mischievous

At the beginning of February I realized that Penelope is getting more and more curious, and more and more mischievous.

I was working on a craft project at the kitchen table when I heard her gagging in the living room. I went into the room (essentially right behind me) and found this. Penelope had found the remote control basket, which contained a few things I had forgotten about. One of those things was a Kinder Ei. If you look closely you can see the pieces of chocolate on the carpet, as well as the barf on the carpet. P had eaten the Kinder Ei, foil and all, and consequently was gagging and choking a little bit. After a quick barf, all was well. But the Kinder Ei did not survive, as evidenced here:

(The first picture on this post shows her after the drama: chocolate all over over face and pjs)

Later that day I put P in her Bumbo to help her calm down. She is too big for it, however, because she arched her back and fell into her basket of toys. I anticipate I will have more and more antics to report about as she gets older.

I Guess It's Time

I suppose it's time to announce that we are expecting baby #2. We found out last week that it's a boy, and I am due in mid-July. It will be a lot of fun to have another baby in the house...and, admittedly a little bit crazy!

I Should Have Known

Penelope literally went through 3 or 4 onesies yesterday. This is what happened when we had to dig through the clean laundry to find a new one after a blow-out. We left her for just a few minutes in the living room, and she unfastened her diaper and started trying to eat it.

Like I said, I should have known! This girl is obsessed with trying to take her diaper off while you're trying to put it on. Luckily it' s a brand spanking new diaper, so it's not really gross that she's eating it!

All she could really get to was the corner anyway.

And yet, she's so proud of herself!

A Christmas Preview

Penelope likes all the toys she got for Christmas, but we by far get the greatest response with the singing picnic basket. It supposedly teaches her manners as well as shape sorting and colors. Right now she just likes to dance to the songs, as evidenced here.

We'll post more Christmas pictures in the next little while.

Penelope Looks as Big as Caitlin!

Yep, Penelope looks as big as Caitlin! Of course, it's just the angle, but still super-funny! Penelope closes her eyes in anticipation of the flash. Funny.

See, still big baby, but not GIANT...although Caitlin is the smallest Luke girl.

Penelope had fun with Caitlin and Ryan. She just kept dancing and squealing for them!

Penelope is half the size of Caitlin and Ryan. OK, not really...but she is almost 30 inches, making her almost 3 feet tall...and Caitlin and Ryan are only 5 ft 7-ish, so she practically IS half their size. :)

Penelope even likes Ryan, and she seems to only like people with Luke genes and Dave! Hooray, Ryan, that's a HUGE accomplishment! (Oh, she likes Nicole, too).

Washington DC Temple Lights

On Sunday we drove to the DC temple to see the Christmas lights, and to go to the Jenny Oaks Baker concert. We didn't go to the concert, because we'd have to wait too long for miss P. So, we just wandered around and looked at the lights. It's like a mini-temple square.

Caitlin and Ryan were in town for the weekend, so they came, and we invited Becky, too. Somehow there is no picture of Ryan. Probably because he wanted a picture on the camel at the nativity, but he would have had to push small children out of the way to get his turn, so he abstained. Sad, would have been a good photo-op.

Miss P all bundled for being outside. It was about 8pm by now, way past her bedtime, but she slept in the car on the way there, and woke up to look at the lights. Notice her cute hat and mittens (No thumbs--smartest move ever. Thumbs in baby mittens would be IMPOSSIBLE!).

A rare shot of me and Dave, inside the visitor's center.

Some of the lights.

That's right, she's not wearing her coat. It won't fit when she's buckled in her carseat. We have since fixed that problem.

More Mail Ripping

Yep, that's P entertaining herself. I hit stop the second she ripped it to pieces...I can't let the videos get too long or I can't post them.