Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Miss Pickles is 3!!!

This is two days late, but better late than never...

Okay so Penny's birthday is turning out to be a bit like mine - Pennaukah if you will. Friday will be the conclusion when she goes to school and her aunt and uncle come over to give her, her present. It is hard for me to remember a time when I didn't have my little girl. I can still remember sitting or laying as it was in the ultrasound room and we had Jon with us and the tech whispered to me - "it's a girl" and just being floored. We don't make those - I was fully prepared to have a third boy. I can't say enough though, how blessed I am to have my daughter.

So this morning we woke up to a two hour delay - so we had a very nice, lazy morning. Penny had her typical breakfast of milk and string cheese. Then it was on to getting our tutu on. Needless to say it IS a bit fluffy. But not too fluffy to twirl around for a few pictures and of course offer up some of Penny's finest facial expressions.



After that we played dolls and well the rest of the day includes, opening presents, homemade macaroni and cheese and hanging out with our uncle tee tee.

How did my baby get so big?


We changed out of our tutu and shirt to our "mermaid" dress up outfit. We wear this a lot - it is the equivalent to Drew's spiderman costume. It gets a lot of face time and is a primary part of our wardrobe.






I capitalized on the morning by giving the boys free reign on my stickers, stencils, scrapbook paper and blank cards. In my hay-day I was a scrapbooking machine - now I am more of a photobook machine - so much faster and easier. That leaves me, however with a TON of paper, stickers, stencils, etc. So I decided to put that to good use and I am so glad that I did. Holy smokes - did they turn out cute. So heart felt - there is nothing sweeter than watching my two boys make something so careful and thoughtful for their baby sister. I believe tears formed, but I sucked it up - I've become my yiayia - she cried over EVERYTHING happy. I guess there are worse things and to be compared to my yiayia is just about the best thing I could think of. I digress. The cards are awesome - so much better than anything I could buy in the store.




So what's so great about Penny? Sometimes she says some of the funniest things - during the superbowl we all enjoyed the Denny's chicken commercials - when we asked Penny - "what did you just see?" because we were all laughing, she simply replied: " chicken nuggets." She can make me laugh like no other - honestly, she never ceases to amaze me in all aspects. After having two boys, I continue to be floored by the nature that is a girl. She is so nurturing, so loving. She's independent and can hop on her brothers and run around with the best of them. She might be wearing plastic heals and a tutu, but she's running. I can't wait to see the woman that Penny becomes because she's a pretty spectacular little girl. I know our road will not always be so smooth, but for now when we go to bed at night I hold tight to our usual exchange: "You my fend mommy?" me: "I'm your best friend Penny, I love you." penny: "Yes, you my best fend mommy, I wuv you too." and with that I'm crying.

Happy Birthday my precious angel, my miss pickles, my littlest chicken. I love you - enjoy your day!

Thanks!!!!

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Happy Birthday Penny!
the House family

February 18, 2010 at 10:37 AM  
Blogger h.Lo said...

Oh how sweet! Love the shirt and tutu, as well. =)

February 18, 2010 at 11:45 AM  
Blogger Angie said...

Makes me want to go home and squeeze Maddie and Avie. I miss that age so much!

February 18, 2010 at 3:50 PM  
Blogger Anna said...

it' s been too long since i've had a chance to catch up with your blog...this one brought tears to my eyes. so sweet.

February 27, 2010 at 9:29 PM  

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