Lamby

So we were talking about Penelope's Lamby this weekend in Utah and I thought I would just post a quick picture of what Lamby used to be. I found a replacement Lamby in Las Vegas last year at the sisters weekend and Penelope will sleep with the replacement only if Lamby is having a "bath."

Notice the difference in color and fluffiness.

I now know not to buy a white stuffed animal for Eleanor. :)

Utah

We had such a great time in Utah this last week. We went for Morgan, Katie and Stephanie's college graduation and ended doing a lot of other fun things too. We went to Hogle Zoo with Grandma, Angela and Cael and Maliyah, Eva and Josh and Stephanie. We had a great time.

After the zoo we drove to Vernal to see Christa and her new baby Annabelle. Annabelle was only a few hours old when we got to see her so that was great. We stayed the night in Vernal at Ma'am and Papa's house and enjoyed visiting with Melinda and Garrett and Jana and her boys. Then we drove to Logan the next day and spent the next couple of nights at Penny and Jeff's house. It was so fun to see the older cousins playing with the younger cousins. Can't wait to get together again.Eleanor didn't get much out of the zoo, but she liked being there anyway. It was such a beautiful day.We caved and let Penelope ride the carousel. She loved it, of course. Yes, we had Penelope on a leash at the zoo. She loved it and we had peace of mind. Of course, before I had kids I made fun of people like me. :)Isabelle (Penny's youngest) holding Eleanor. Penelope holding the new kittens at Penny and Jeff's house.

Josh (Eva's little boy) giving Penelope some love. Shortly after this picture they both tumbled to the ground, still hugging. Penelope wasn't quite sure what to think of that.Katie (Penny's 2nd child) with Eleanor. Katie was so patient playing with Penelope. She was great!Isabelle and Josh, Katie and Penelope.

Fun Filled Week

So, I go through phases where I take lots of pictures and then I don't take any for a month. Well, I have some pretty cute pictures that I wanted to share from this past week.

Aaron went to church with us on Easter morning, but he missed out on the Easter baskets. And then he left that evening after dinner and was gone all week for some training in Havre. We kept plenty busy this week, but we still miss him when he is gone.

Penelope had such a great time and was so excited when she saw the baskets in the living room. I was only able to get one picture of both of the girls looking at the camera, but Eleanor looked confused and Penelope looked like she was off in daisy dream land. At least in this picture they are both smiling, even if they are not looking at the camera.Penelope loved her chocolate bunny. She bit the ears off and then filled the bunny with her jelly beans and other small candies and then just carried it around shaking it. Penelope in her "Easter dress." She was posing, but absolutely refused to look at the camera.See what I mean about not looking at the camera?Aaron insisted on getting a picture of Eleanor and I,

but then wouldn't let me take one of him. I love Eleanor's smile.

Her whole face lights up when she smiles and I love the little eye wrinkles.

On Wednesday we had a fun birthday party for my friend LaDonna. We found the largest balloon known to man and it had the sweetest little blue fringe thing on it and, of course, Penelope loved it. (So did LaDonna.)

We had the party at Colleen's house and this is her dog Chester. Penelope loves Chester, but what is funny is that Eleanor loves Chester even more. She would lean toward Chester and kick her legs and try to grab at him. I wish I had gotten a picture of that. I couldn't believe how much she loved him.

We made LaDonna wear this tiara the whole time. Well, not the whole time. Penelope confiscated it toward the end; after all she is the princess.

Eleanor is doing really well with solids, but she really likes to blow raspberries with it too. I have decided that I need a full body bib, gloves and goggles when feeding Eleanor.

She thinks it is fun though.

This morning we walked down to story time at the library with Eleanor in the stroller and then after the library we walked to the park. Well, on our way back, Penelope started crying for the "car seat" so I had to squeeze both girls in the stroller and push them up the steepest hill ever created. The girls thouroughly enjoyed it.

Newspaper

My friend, Melanie, writes front page for our newspaper here in Shelby, so Penelope has been in the paper quite a bit. Melanie was with us when we were at Lisa's house dyeing Easter eggs and so she witnessed Penelope's "cracking" of the egg. Anyway, she used it in one of her articles this week. Check it out at http://www.goldentrianglenews.com/articles/2009/04/15/shelby_promoter/news/news2.txt

One of the pictures I have posted below was also in the newspaper, but it is not on the website. It is so fun to see all of these pictures of Penelope in the paper and someday she will have fun looking back at the articles I have clipped.

Easter Eggs

We went to my friend Lisa's house the other night for dinner and to dye eggs for Easter. Penelope had a great time coloring on the eggs, plopping them into the dye and retreiving them with a spoon. She was totally into it and more than one boiled egg met its fate at the hands of Penelope. Surprisingly enough though, the egg she slammed with all of her force onto the floor escaped unscathed. She evidently was trying to "crack" the egg open like Mommy does, but she is lacking a little in the finesse department, so her "crack" was more of a "whop." We all got a good chuckle out of that.

Righty or Lefty? Still don't know.

PlopEleanor had a great time too. Most of the time she was standing in my lap jumping away; excited to have so much to look at, but she also tried to eat one of the eggs in my hand. She thought that was great fun, but she couldn't quite get her hands out of the way enough to get the egg in her mouth. Good thing too, because she probably could have defeated the only egg that survived Penelope. :)