Heidi's Broccoli Picture

Today, Heidi kept trying to take her diaper off. If she couldn't get it off by herself, she would tell me "diaper off" to let me know she wanted it off. Sometimes I would take it off for her and she would sit on her potty (and make the usual "Ssss" sound like she was actually peeing). Well, she went into the kitchen this afternoon and took her diaper off and peed on the kitchen floor! She then walked into the living room (where I was) and told me "Mommy, pee-pee!" I looked at her foot and saw that her left foot was wet and she was NOT wearing a diaper anymore! I walked into the kitchen, and there in the middle of the floor was a puddle. I cleaned it up and put a diaper back on her.

A while later, she was telling me she wanted to use the potty and she wanted her diaper off again. I went back to the bathroom with her to help her use her potty chair, but it Wasn't There! I looked in the living room and it wasn't there either. Finally, I walked into the kitchen and it was in the middle of the floor, in the EXACT place where she had peed on the floor a couple of hours earlier! I guess she thought she wouldn't let what happened earlier happen again.... but why in the kitchen?

Heidi also wanted to watch Peter Pan today, twice. She either asks for "Pan" or "Pee-Pan" when she wants to watch it. For a while, we were sitting on the couch watching it together. I tried to lay my head on her shoulder to see what she would do. I thought she would push me away, but she didn't. She lifted her arm up and put it around my neck! I guess she liked me cuddling next to her on the couch with my head on her. She is such a sweet little girl.

We also watched the short videos that we made of Brian while he was home on R&R. He sang the ABC song in one, did This Little Piggy on Heidi's toes and then his toes in another one, and they read a color/picture book together in another little video that I have on the computer. Heidi saw that she was eating strawberries in a couple of the videos and she wanted some. She started saying "stawbies" and did the sign for them. We didn't have any more strawberries though. She finished the ones that we had yesterday, so we rode over to the commissary (mainly for strawberries, but for a couple of other things too) and they were completely OUT of strawberries! We got some oranges and apples instead. I told her we would go home and have an orange instead, and she seemed fine with that. She kept saying "orses" in the car (meaning oranges) and she does the sign really well for it too (like you are squeezing an orange under your chin).

Tonight before I put her to bed, we were coloring with her "colors," as she calls them. She likes for me to sit down with her and draw along with her. She likes for me to draw birds and strawberries. Sometimes she will point to the paper and say "bird" or "strawberry" (wanting me to draw another one). I draw other things too... we usually draw on the same page together. Tonight, she had been drawing polka dots. She knows what polka dots are. She kept drawing them in different colors and saying "pokados." After a while, she had picked up a green crayon and started drawing green polka dots in a corner of the paper. She had a LOT of green polka dots in a little spot on the paper. She stopped making polka dots and looked at the paper for a second... then she pointed and said "Broccoli!" I was shocked! She says broccoli pretty clearly... and it DID look a lot like broccoli (her green polka dots, I mean). This is the first time that I can think of that she has drawn something and said that it WAS something, so I thought I would make a note of it in my blog. I guess her first actual picture was of broccoli.

Signs:
Also, she has been doing the sign for "red" really well too lately. She heard someone say something about a red ball on tv the other day and she then said red and did the sign. If you ask her to do the sign for red, she puts her pointer finger on her lips and then pulls down (the sign for the color red).

She also does the sign for "cracker" too! You are supposed to knock your fist onto your elbow to do this sign. Sometimes, though, she does it on the inside of her elbow instead of her actual elbow.

She does a pretty good job trying to copy the signs whenever we watch Signing Time. Today, we watched about half of Vol. 3 (Everyday Signs).

Bath Time:
Before I put Heidi to bed, I usually give her a bath. She does the sign for "bath" and says "bath" really well too. I couple of weeks ago, I got her some foam letters and numbers that are meant to be played with in the bathtub. She can stick them up on the tile wall or the sides of the bathtub. Every night, she enjoys playing with her "A C's" as she calls them. She can repeat the name of just about any letter in the alphabet. She can't really identify her letters yet though. She calls them names, but it is usually the wrong name. For instance, she may pick up the letter "T" and stick it on the wall and call it "Y," or she may pick up the letter "A" and call it "C."

Bed Time:
Tonight after I looked at a few books with Heidi and it was time for her to go to bed, she said "bye bye Daddy... back" and did the sign that we do for "be back." We usually blow him kisses too before she goes to sleep.