Putting Heidi to Bed

Tonight, as usual, Heidi had to go to bed with her usual list of items:

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  Her Favorite Little Mommie's Baby Doll (the one that I got for her right after Brian deployed)


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  The Cocker Spaniel Puppy that my parents gave her for Christmas (from Toys R Us)


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  An E.T. doll that used to belong to her dad when he was younger (she thinks it is another baby)


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  Another little puppy stuffed animal


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  A Big Caterpillar that teaches how to tie, button, velcro, zip, etc. (from Discovery Toys)


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  A tissue (I guess in case she needs to wipe her nose in the middle of the night)


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  A sippy cup with water


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  And sometimes another baby doll that my parents gave her (The older Little Mommies doll that talks when you press on her hands)

If she doesn't have these things, it is hard to get her to lay down, so I just put them in her crib and she helps me line them up around the outer edges. Then, she usually lays down and puts her right arm around one of them and cuddles it closer to her. Lately, she has been putting her arm either around E.T. or the caterpillar. She doesn't know anything about E.T., so she calls E.T. "baby." She also says "caterpillar" (pa-pu, with a short a/short u).

Oh, we also have to turn on her birds. She has a plastic box-like thing that hangs on the side of her crib that has little birds inside that move around when you turn it on. It also plays some soft, lullaby kind of music & projects images of birds, sunshine, and clouds on the ceiling. She usually points up and says "sky" when she looks up and sees the images on the ceiling.

Tonight, after I put her in her crib, I heard her talking for about 5 minutes or so. I guess she was talking to her dolls/animals. It sounded like she was saying something like... purple, poo poo, pa pa... or something like that over and over... and maybe some other things. Maybe she was just listening to herself talk until she was tired enough to just drift off. It was kind of cute listening to her.