Heaton Happenings

Imagination is a great thing. Penelope has played with this box for over a week now and it has taken permanent residence in our living room. She carries her toys in there and sits in the corner and lies down inside with her lamby. It has inumerable uses. She loves it. She really thinks it is great when mommy gets inside with her and we close the box and daddy comes to find us. Great Fun! She has also developed a fascination for mommy's clothing as you can see in the video. She usually just drapes the shirt or socks or whatever around her neck, but this day she wanted me to put it on her. She wore this shirt all day long. She took naps in it and everything. Too cute.

I've been tagged by Melinda.

1. I am a native Texan. I was born in Dallas, Tx, and when I was about 6 months old my family moved to Blackfoot, ID. Now, when I see "Native Texan" signs I can say, "hey, I'm a native Texan", even though I have only lived in Texas a total of 4 years now.
2. My belly button is off center. I discovered this when I was in physical therapy school. During labs we would have to strip down to sports bra and shorts so we could get used to examining bodies and when we were doing a lab on landmarks one of my classmates noticed my bellybutton is an inch or two off to the right.
3. I can't stand it when people, (aka. Aaron) leave cabinets open. It doesn't happen as often as it use to, but I still find that I get a little irritated if a cabinet door is ajar and I have to go shut it.
4. My clothes in my closet are organized by color. Aaron teased me when I first did this, but now his closet is organized the same way.
5. I have been to 10 different countries and to almost every state in the US.
6. I love to backpack and hike. I could do it every weekend and never get bored of it. I would love to go to Europe and just backpack around or go to Peru and backpack the Inca trail. I would also love to go back to the Wind Rivers since we never made it to Temple peak. (Bear!)

I tag Tiffany.

Penelope and I spent Thanksgiving at my parent's house in Wyoming. My Mom really wanted a new family picture, since there were three additions in the past year, so everyone came, except Aaron. (He had to work, of course.) There were 35 of us. 17 grandchildren, and Penelope is not even the youngest. There are 2 that are younger than her. It was a lot of fun but it was also very noisy and busy.

One of my sisters bought a pinata and the kids had a lot of fun breaking it. Penelope thought it was great fun, until it fell to the ground and then she started crying. She just couldn't believe that anyone would be that mean to such a cute animal. (When the pinata was in the house, waiting for it's fate, Penelope would walk by and growl at it and then giggle.)

Penelope really missed her Daddy while we were gone, but she found substitutes. She really loved her uncle John (in the picture), uncle Morgan and Grandpa.

It was a very nice trip, but we are glad to be home. Oh we had a chance to see Christa and Bianca while we were in Salt Lake. I wanted to see Carey too, but I didn't want to make her feel obligated to come and see me, especially since baby is coming soon. Anyway, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Penelope has started walking now. I can definately see why they call them toddlers.

As I was making dinner one night, I turned around to see Penelope pushing her highchair around. She walks all over the house behind the highchair, but if she runs into something and gets stuck, she starts yelling until we come to the rescue.

Penelope loves to play with the clean laundry. Most of the time she just stays near me, where there is a continuous supply of neatly folded clothing that needs to be unfolded. This time, however, she grabbed a rag, crawled into the front room and dusted the armoir for about 5 minutes. Too cute!

We have the cutest baby ever! Of course, we may be a little biased. Penelope is taking steps now and will soon be walking everywhere.