If I must, I will suffer allergies for the next ~15-20 years for Penny 🫶

Penny! Short for Penelope. Because the toddler wanted to name her Penguin, and this is similar enough to that 😂

She's been with us for less than 12 hours and has already adopted this chair??? There's a reason I fell in love with her after I saw her picture 😭❤️

Omg I was so distracted by our new kitten's arrival that I forgot about this 😭

This year the toddler has made it extra difficult. Whenever I tried to go in my office and started to close the door she'd barge in and say "NO MAMA, NO LOCK DOOR" 😂

Most of my work got done after she went to bed 😂

oh man, that hits very close to home 😬

Yes! We're in town for a wedding. Just a brief visit to campus this morning to grab this picture and get Ellie an MSU shirt 🫶

I almost came to the physic building to say hi to some people but we were approaching toddler nap time 😴

side note - I was Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc last year (the toddler was Boo).

How am I once again dressing up as a green, one-eyed, character 😂