Happy Day!

Today is Penelope's 2nd birthday! What a fun day. Every time she saw her birthday cake or presents this morning she would say "Happy Day." She was so excited. Yesterday we went to the store and bought a spider cake and a Cinderella balloon and today we had a little party for her with just the three of us.

This is a picture of Penelope being embarrassed and so excited as we are singing "Happy Birthday" to her. Blowing out the candle on her spider cake.Yum, purple frosting. Her American Girl baby doll and backpack that Aunt Penny sent. I wish you could have seen her when she opened it. She was so excited she was jumping up and down and yelling "yay."

Grandma Heaton sent a book called "My Mommy's Tote." This is going to be great for church!Mommy and Daddy bought Penelope a working vacuum and a playdoh set. Now she can make a mess with the playdoh and then vacuum it up afterwards. :)

Hello Belly!

Well, I am less than 3 weeks away from having this little girl and boy does it ever show. Check out that belly!!!

In the last 2-3 weeks the belly has grown exponentially. Of course, that is to be expected since this is the time when the baby gains the most weight, but it is still a little unnerving to see my midsection growing so fast.

Penelope likes my belly, especially my shallow belly button. Whenever I mention that there is a baby in my belly, Penelope says "Can I see it?" as she is lifting up my shirt. Pretty cute until the "can I see it?" happens in the grocery store and I am desperately trying to keep Penelope from lifting up my shirt. She also really likes to kiss the baby (which to her is my belly button). Aaron took a cute picture of Penelope kissing my belly button. But as cute as it is, that is one picture that will not make it onto the blog. No one needs to see my big white belly. :)

Smile for the camera. . .

I have always commented that Penelope is all girl. She has always loved pretty dresses, dancing, babies, flirting, etc. You should see it when the characters on her favorite movies kiss or when the prince arrives on the scene. Never was there a happier litle girl! Oh, and every prince is Daddy, of course. My favorite is when she starts giggling and says "They kiss," in her sweet little voice. But somehow, my girly-girl has not mastered the picture smile. She was dressing up in her dress ups the other day and I wanted to get a cute picture. This is what she did when I asked her to smile for me.

Not exactly what I had in mind.

Here is a little video of her walking in her princess shoes. She loves to hear the "click" of the shoes on the floor. I wish you all could see her on Sunday mornings when we put on her pretty dress shoes. As soon as her feet hit the floor, she starts dancing. Clickety, click, click, click.

6 more weeks. . .

So, I am now 34 weeks pregnant, which means I have about 6 weeks to go before this baby comes. I feel fairly prepared except for the fact that I cannot figure out a name for this girl. I have a bunch of names I like for boys, but I cannot seem to find something that I love for a little girl. I'm driving my poor husband crazy because I am constantly coming up with new names to ask his opinion on. I come up with a name to ask him about and I'll tell him the name and then I get silence and an "are you kidding?" kind of look. And then I am back on my quest for the perfect little girl name. It was so much easier the first time because I put Aaron in charge of the girl names and I got to choose the boy names. I didn't even have to make a decision. She was born and one of the nurses asked her name and Aaron confidently said "Penelope." Now if only I could be so confident this time.
Has anyone else had this much difficulty picking out a name? Will her name pop out at me once she is born? Any help would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Way too picky, indecisive, tentative mommy

Aaron's True Love

Aaron wanted me to post some pictures of his mistress. . . I mean motorcycle. . . for his brothers to see.

He just bought a new seat cover. . .

New front tire and rim. . .
And a new muffler.
Now as you salivate over Aaron's bike, maybe you will have a reason to come and visit us so you can take it for a spin.