Thanks to Auntie Jill, Penny has a jumpy thingy.  She loves playing in it, though she hasn’t mastered jumping on her own.  At the moment we have to help her jump.

Penny getting ready to go pick up Daddy from work.

Penny helping mom in the kitchen.

Story time with mom and Leyna.

 

Penny is so lucky to have so many little friends here to play with.  We try to get together as often as possible so the babies can all hang out, and the moms too!!  Penny’s friends are- Jack (3 months older), Jona (same age), Isidora (3 months younger) and Lucas (3 months younger).  Here are some pics of Penny with her friends from early play dates (from September) to one of our most recent play dates (2 weeks ago).

After much debate, I decided to make this post.  I feel horrible, but I feel our story must be told.

 Meet Stubs-

Stubs is now a happy baby, fully mobile and smiley with the use of one hand.  What happened to the other hand you ask? I tried to cut Penny’s fingernails.  It was all going well, until she moved.  Then Penny became Stubs.  (I cut the tip of her thumb).

Thankfully my background in nursing really helped (helped me go running over to Sara’s asking what should I do????).  Penny was a trooper though.  She only cried for a brief moment, then stared at Sara, Marcus and I as we looked at her thumb and put a bandage on it.  To prevent her from getting at it I put a sock over her hand and found a long sleeved onesie that had mitts on the end of the sleeves.  Folded said mitt over the sock, and voila.  STUBS!!!!!