Penelope wishes you a Happy Halloween

So this will be the first of at least 2 Halloween videos, this was taken this morning after P woke up. The funniest part of this video actually happened while I was "editing" - Penny was on my lap and she was absolutely enthralled, she would talk back to the video and shake her head "no" in the appropriate places.

So here it is, Penelope wishing you all a Happy Halloween:



Oh! And in other talking news, nearly every time she sees Bryan she says "hi dada" - it's cute. She uses "da" to talk about the dog as well, so I don't know if we're going to count it as her first word. We may actually count "hi" since she uses it appropriately.

This morning

Penny wakes up at 6:20am... I get up, we have breakfast, play a little, and then decide that it's high time Daddy gets out of bed (it's 7 at this point). So we crawl into bed with Daddy and Penelope commences to crawl all over him. I tell her, "Penny, that's rude, you haven't even given Daddy kisses this morning! Where are your kisses for Daddy?" - so she kisses his shoulder and his eye. Open mouth slobbery kisses. Ha!

Anyway, after about 20 minutes of playing on the bed she decides that she'll go ahead and take an early nap - hooray! So we sleep from about 7:30 until 9. Glorious sleep!

After waking up, she decides to try and make Bryan take her pacifier, which was pretty amusing... especially since she kept trying even though he kept moving his head to avoid it.

We finally all got out of bed around 9:20 and are just getting around to getting ready for the day at 10:30. It feels like a Saturday!

On the agenda today: a walk, lunch with Holly & baby Lamb, @$$-load of homework, and I'm supposed to be teaching a cloth diapering workshop tonight - but no one has RSVP'd so I may just cancel the class and spend the evening hanging out with baby & Bry (which sounds like much more fun than teaching a diapering class).

Looking back: Pictures that make me cry

The title says it all












There's lots more... and plenty more that just make me laugh.

This is the post for which she will hate me

When Penelope is 12 or 13 she will read through this blog, happen upon this post, and then refuse to talk to me for an entire week. I could, of course, NOT post this, but it's too damn funny and I'll get a week of silence out of it at some point in the future. Win-win, right? Besides, all moms tell embarrassing poop stories. So Penny can return the favor when she has her own kids.

Now that I've built it up, y'all probably won't find it funny. Oh well, I still do.

Penelope was grossed out by her own poopy diaper. Yep. She gagged and then covered her nose & mouth. It was hilarious... only I couldn't laugh too hard because that would require inhaling (which I was trying NOT to do as this was an exceptionally stinky poopy diaper). If she knew how to say "yucky" I bet she would have. The memory still makes me giggle.

So thanks Pen for making Mommy laugh (and gag at the same time). When you decide to talk to me again I promise not to mention it... well, I'll try not to. Love you baby!

This is an actual assignment

This is one of my assignments for the week. Try not to laugh.

*Describe your philosophy and values for creating and maintaining a positive learning environment; consider the role of the teacher, students, school administrators, district policies, ethical, and professional behaviors.
*Create rules, procedures, routines, and consequences for establishing and maintaining a positive learning enviornemnt

I also have to get this evaluated by 2 professional educators and the reflect about the whole thing.

I'm going to need a bucket to throw up in by the time I'm done. This is the most ridiculous assignment I have EVER done in college. Seriously, and one class at Sac State required me to draw my interpretation of Chinese mythology. This is even sillier than that assignment.

Why? For many reasons, one of which is that schools set the vast majority of classroom rules - a teacher gets a certain amount of flexibility - but if a school has a certain classroom policy then I'm bound to abide by it. So why in the name of all that is holy am I wasting my time creating this crap on my own???

And my philosophy on classroom management? Sweet Jebus I just threw up in my mouth a little. Ridiculous I say. Utterly.

I feel like complaining about the idiocy of this assignment, but I have no idea to whom. Oh well. I will invent a bunch of BS and pass it off as a thoughtful assignment. I'm ready to be DONE with my classes. DONE.

I have Penelope-related posts, those will come soon I promise.

Dear Penelope:

While I appreciate your offer to help, I just wanted to let you know that throwing clothes on the floor is the opposite of folding.

Love,
Mommy

I finally have some pictures

So I finally figured out how to pictures off of my new phone and onto my computer. For some reason the bluetooth wasn't working, so I just texted them to my e-mail address.

Anyway, here they are:


Penelope in the pink poodle costume Tami gave us at my babyshower. It's sized 2T so I never thought she'd fit into it for a Halloween, I figured she'd be too small this Halloween and too big next Halloween. I was wrong, it fits perfectly! Maybe Penny has been growing so fast so she *could* fit into the costume, in that case the fact that we have a giant baby is all Tami's fault :)


I like to call this "The Face" - and she makes it all the time.

In other news, my parents had her last night so I could surprise Bryan with a night out to a comedy club. She did great for them (slept from 8-7:30) and Bryan and I had a really wonderful time - we laughed for almost two hours straight. All in all, a very wonderful night! Now it's Sunday and football will be on soon! Go Steelers!