Merry Christmas From Penelope!

* Penelope's Christmas Wishlist 2011 *

How and WHYYY is it Christmas already??? As much as I love Christmas, I'm just totally behind this year. It could be the fact that we don't have a Christmas tree yet (I'm working on it). It could also be the fact that I've been ill... or that there isn't any snow on the ground. These yards just look silly with all of their Holiday lights and sculptures without all the pretty lights reflecting off of a sparkly layer of snow.

...but I mostly think that it is sinking in, just how much I'm missing my family. We were REALLY hoping to make it back to Wisconsin sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, but it just isn't happening. Booooo.

Anyway... many have asked, so I guess it's about time to do this thing. Here is Penelope Christmas wish list:

As always, I can't say it enough, we LOVE LOVE LOVE the Tea Collection! It's by far our favorite baby clothing line. Their fabric quality is just worlds better than any other baby clothing I have come across and it's perfect for Penny's delicate skin. Not to mention that it's super super cute!

Penelope is in desperate need of size 3T play outfits. She's going to be outgrowing her 2t clothes soonish, so I was going through her bin of 3T clothes to find that we didn't have a single pair of cotton play pants. 15 pairs of denim, but not a single pair of every day play pants. The above outfit is from Old Navy... but Carters, Baby Gap, Jumping Beans and so forth would also be more than fine, as long as it's 100% cotton.

Penelope is still in love with books and we cannot get enough of them! The three above are ones that I know she would love. We have a stuffed animal of the mouse with the cookie, but never got the book. She is also very much in love with dinosaurs.

DUMBO! Penelope adores him! We checked it out from the library a few weeks ago and she's been asking about it ever since. It's one of the few Disney movies we don't have - I know they sell them on Amazon.com.

Penny has a pair of beat up, green froggy rain boots. She doesn't play outside without them. Sadly, she'll either outgrow or wear them out soon. We need a new pair of size 8 rain boots. I found the ones above on the Target website, but any print would really be fine.

Little girls panties, is there anything cuter? We spotted these at Target and fell in love. Penelope still loves Finding Nemo and is just starting to like Toy Story and Wall-E. I think the smallest size they go down to was a 3/4 , and that would work perfectly as they run a little small any way.

Penelope loves puzzles. We have a ton of them. A storage rack would be awesome.

We have all the brushes, the papers, the easel, the smocks and spill-proof paint cups... but we need more paint! Penelope is a paint-a-holic, so we're always running out!

Kind of an odd request... but if anyone happens to have a used Barbie car that they want to hand down to Penny - PLEASE do so. I found the one above at Target, but I'm not terribly impressed with it's style and quality... so therefore, I have decided that I am unwilling to pay $15.00 for said car. Ideally, we would love a 4 seater that is not pink... but if someone is willing to give her a used one, it really doesn't matter what it looks like, we would just really really like to have one.
A little bird told me that Santa *MAY* be getting Penelope a dollhouse for Christmas... so this would be nice for her little doll family to cruise around in.

Disclaimer: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NO NO NO BARBIE DOLLS! we're not ready for that yet :P