From the mouth of Penny

Penny says the craziest things, and besides a facebook post here and there I rarely write them down. So here goes...

Share Day--Every Friday is Share Day (Show and Tell). Now this is a balancing act. She will invariably pick a toy that she loves so much there is no way she will share it. Since she already has trouble with Share time I try to dissuade her. However, I have to convince her to pick a sort of liked toy, which of course takes some negotiating. I try to go through this on Thursday night, but if I forget it is a rush on Friday morning. This past Friday I said "Penny, we need to get you something for Share Day" Next thing I know she is standing next to me with a ziploc bag of raw eggs. I could see that one was cracked and oozing. She said "Mommy, this is for share day! Me and my friends are going to do magic and make chickens!" I told her the teachers wouldn't want eggs in the classroom and these eggs wouldn't become chickens. She didn't believe me on that last one, but I was able to convince her to bring her bouncy ball with sparkly butterflies. Raw eggs...bouncy ball...you can see how share day decisions can take a long time!

Penny in her pajamas showing me what she wanted to bring for "share day"

No Filter--Three year olds have absolutely no filter. It can be embarrassing some times. The other day on the bike ride home a woman was running towards us wearing a skin colored sports bra. Penny yelled "mommy that woman is naked!!" Unfortunately this was the one runner not wearing earphones. She looked shocked, but really, who wears a skin colored sports bra? She did look naked from far away.

Baby Sarah-- May 25th Facebook Post On the way to preschool today Penny said "mommy, tomorrow I'm going to get my baby sister Sarah. She's in China. You can't come. Sorry just me" It seems she has made friends with a couple of the adopted kids in her class!

June 1st Facebook Post The imaginary future sister Sarah from China saga continues...Penny has now put aside toys in birthday bags. She won't play with the toys because they are only for Sarah. She asked me if I'll make a card for Sarah because she is going to pick her up soon. Sigh...do I play pretend with her? She really seems to believe that she is going to get a new sister and I hate to lead her on. sigh...

The Sarah talk has died down a little over the past week. It was non-stop for a while there. This weekend in the car she said "I have a brother and Sarah has a brother and he is 64 years old" I told her it was pretty amazing that she has a brother older than her Grandpa!

Catch it to me! -- Penny is obsessed with baseball again this year. She always says "catch it to me". We tell her "no, say throw it to me" Today she started saying "Throw it to you" when she wanted me to throw it to her. 

Aurora -- Penny asks us daily "whats your name? Not Daddy, Chris, right? and Grandma's name is what? and Grandpa's name is what? and Mommy is Aurora?" We try to correct her that no Mommy is Laura, not Aurora. She yells at the top of her lungs "It's Aurora! My mommy is Princess Aurora!! Like the movie" Yeah, except for that tall blond, blue eyed princess sleeping beauty thing, I'm exactly like Aurora!