When Penelope was born, her father stood at the door of the delivery room with a baseball glove. When the doctors announced the baby was a girl he nearly threw it out of the window in disgust. Why would the radiologist tell them it was a boy during the sonogram if the damn thing was a girl? He held onto the glove anyway and when Penny was placed in his arms, he had an epiphany. She was beautiful and wonderful and she was his little Slugger. Girls can be just as tough as boys right? But she was a tough little thing. The day she came home to the farm, her older sister dropped baby Penny on her head. The newborn didn't even cry, but Penny's sister swears that's the day the 'Evil Stare' was created.
All of the families from neighboring farms came around and brought food. They all commented on what a beautiful little girl Penny was. Mrs. Schmitt said she was the prettiest little thing she'd ever seen. Penny's sister didn't think the baby was all that pretty and tried her best to tell everyone just how ugly she thought Penny was. No one paid attention.
Her parents knew their little girl was special when she first started grabbing toys. All the other baby's she'd known couldn't even bat at the toys above their baby seats, but little Penny already had hold of them and shoving them in her mouth. She was able to roll over, crawl, run and jump before anyone else her age. Penny got along with the other children well. Although she wasn't yet able to talk when she was one, she would babble incoherently at the other children whenever she saw them. Penny seemed especially keen on the less social children. If there were a room full of kids her age, she would seek out the quiet one on the corner and draw them out to play.
Penny's dad bought her a baseball, bat and tee when she was eighteen months old. He would stand outside with her for hours trying to get her to hit the ball properly with the bat. Her mother disapproved, but never said anything. She watched the two of them outside and thought about how her little Penelope never seemed to give up on anything.
(A/N: Not a very long chapter, I'm afraid, but I'm trying to stay as true to cannon as I can, and well, the BBT writers have not given me much to go on here)