Heidi Knows Her COLORS!!! ... And Has Poo Pooed on the Potty!

It has been a long time since I have written anything on here, so I thought I would try to give a quick update...

Recently, Heidi and I drove up to Olathe, Kansas to visit Brian's sister and her family. We made the trip along with Rachel and Genevieve (my sister-in-law and niece). Brian's sister, Heather, was due to have her baby July 17th, but didn't have her until a couple of weeks later. While we were there, Heidi got sick with a pretty bad cold, a fever, and even threw up a few times. When we got home, it just wasn't getting any better, so I took her to the hospital and found that she not only had a bad cold, but she also had an ear infection. Then, I ended up getting sick too! I had a little bit of a cold, a really BAD BAD BAD sore throat, and a fever for a few days! My throat is actually still sore. I went to the doctor too... but they did a strep throat culture, and I guess that was negative because I haven't heard anything from the hospital. They told me to take 8tsp. of Children's Ibuprofin for the fever and sore throat pain... so I have gone through a couple of bottles of Children's Ibuprofin.

Anyway, onto another subject... Heidi has been learning her colors over the past month. At 20-months-old, she now knows pretty well the following colors:

red
yellow
blue
green
orange
purple
pink
black
brown
white

She also knows the following letters pretty well: X and U (sometimes gets a few others right, like: T, Y, E, S, and B).

I also sing an A E I O U song with her sometimes, and she tries to sing it along with me... Here are the words to the song:

A E I O U
A E I O U
A E I O U
I know my vowels and so can you!

She doesn't sing it exactly in that order. It might sound more like:

"E E A I O U A E O I ... know can you .... E A O I U A E E O A I E ... know you can"

While we were in Kansas visiting a couple of weeks ago, Heidi went POO POO IN THE POTTY for the first time!!! I wasn't there. I had gone somewhere (I think to some garage sales) and was gone with Heather and Rachel. We left the girls with Grandma Sylvia. Grandma Sylvia said that Heidi had already started pooping in her diaper, so she put her on the potty chair and she finished on the potty.

Today, I saw that Heidi was pooping in her diaper, so i did the same... I took her diaper off and put her on the potty chair in the bathroom... and she finished pooping a little more on her potty chair! Maybe she will be potty trained before she is weaned from breastfeeding! :)

My sister, Blair, was also visiting this past week (from Colorado). Other than Heidi and I being a little sick, we had a fun visit with my sister. We went to IKEA one day. She had never been. We also went out to eat, watched some movies, and did a little shopping. I'm glad she didn't get sick with what we have/had!