Penelope Turns 2!!

How did this happen? My baby is two years old!

From this.... 

 

To this.... in the blink of an eye!

She is my little buddy - I miss her so much, miss all the kids, when I'm at work. When I am driving around with her on all our trips to school, work, soccer practice and games, etc. I just want to look at her little face in my rear view mirror the whole time. She is so expressive and sings and talks to herself all the time with the cutest little voice. But she has also found her volume button and can be very loud when she wants something. I guess you have to be with two older siblings competing for attention.

Penelope likes to have her feet tickled - it is the funniest thing. She will be in her seat in the car and she will say "tickle!!!!" with this voice of desperation, like it's the one thing in the world that she needs right then. So we reach our arms back at a terribly impossible angle and tickle her feet until our arms fall asleep. And then when we stop, she gets super mad... she doesn't seem to be that ticklish really, she laughs sometimes but mostly she just sits there while we tickle her feet. She used to calm down as a baby when we would rub her feet - guess she likes reflexology or something. :)

She loves the movie Frozen, like every other little girl in the world right now. She calls it "Let it Go" and loves listening to the songs on our phones. Every night at bedtime she requests Popcorn Popping and Itsy Bitsy Spider as her songs. I can sing other songs after those, but not before. This is a girl who knows what she wants.

She is finally talking a lot and is parroting most of our words now - but if you ask her to say something, she will not perform on demand. Ever.

Penelope loves stuffed animals and sleeps with no less than 8 of them at a time, and she especially loves her Woodstock, Lady and Snow White.

Her hair is still curly but will straighten out after a few nights of sleeping on it and when straight, it's probably down to the bottom of her shoulder blades. A lot of people ask me about her hair - if I curl it. Yeah right - I have exactly 90 seconds to get her hair done before she is off to the races. Whatever curl we have left is all natural.

What else? She love shoes, loves wearing everyone else's shoes, and she loves dogs! She will stop in her tracks anytime she sees a puppy but she takes a minute to warm up to new dogs. She also loves her brother and sister and calls Miles "Mize" and Claire "Care." She's close - needs to get those Ls in there.

Happy Birthday Sweet P!