Pennyism's

We are at such a fun stage right now. Penny cracks us up on a daily basis. Here are some recent Pennyism's:

• The Itsy Bitsy Spider came on Penny's music player and she started singing and doing the hand motions. Half way through the song, she stops and looks at her brother and says "come on, you do it Porter, OK?".
• The other morning, Penny opens the door to our bed room carrying her pillow, blanket and the gate from her bed room doorway and shouts "hey mama, you want a gate?".
• Penny has become very interested in the potty. Her dolls love to use the potty and have their diapers changed. She's even started taking off her diaper. While I was nursing Porter the other day, sister disappeared for a quick minute and returned. A half hour later, I picked her up for some cuddles and her bottom was soaked. Yeah, she took her diaper off to sit on the potty for a quick minute and pulled her pants back up sans diaper. Then it was time for mommy to play the "where did Penny go potty" game.
• Papa asked Penny how baby brother was doing on the phone recently and she replied "I boss him around".
• Penny has pretend phone conversations with our parents and Elmo on her LeapFrog cell phone. The conversations usually go something like this "hi, how are you? Oh good. Have a good day. Bye."
• When I change Porter's diaper, Penny always tells me that he has poopies. It took me a few changes to realize that she thought his boy parts were poopies. Oops!
• My sister told me about the Starfall website (an educational website) and we downloaded their ABC app for the iPad. Penny is having a blast learning her letters and I'm amazed at how quickly she's picked it up!
• Our neighbors are building a deck.  Penny tells everyone that daddy is helping Jason build a castle.

Her personality is AMAZING! We love watching her grow and learn. Of course with all these fun things come a few tantrums. Time out doesn't seem to work for her, so we're still trying to find a consistent means of discipline other than distraction, which still does the trick, but is difficult to do while I'm nursing or pumping. Overall, she's doing great- learning more by the minute and loving life!