A Picture for Daddy

Today, we made a special picture for Daddy. We also picked up a few things from the PX that he needed for us to mail to him in Iraq (razor blades, a watch battery, etc).

Heidi is 21-months-old and can recognize/identify the following shapes now:

circle
triangle
heart
star

So, I first traced her hand in the middle of a sheet of white typing paper in purple.

Then, I gave her a different color and asked her to draw a circle. You can tell that she was trying to draw a circle. It isn't even close to perfect, but it is sort of round with a line through the middle (she is still working on fine motor skills/muscle control).

Next, I asked her to draw a triangle, ... then a heart, ... and finally a star. Her triangle doesn't really look much like a triangle, but it does have some angles in it! Her heart looks like some angles and some scribbled circles, sort of. And, her star looks kind of like a bunch of scribbled angles. Even though it may be hard to tell what she meant to draw, I was impressed with how well she actually did! I could tell that she was trying to draw them.

We mailed her special picture to Brian today along with the other things that we picked up from the PX.

Right now, it looks like Brian might be coming home sometime after Christmas (with a very small possibility of being home right before). Even if he gets here after Christmas, we will wait to celebrate with him. He missed out on Christmas with Heidi last year... because he has been in Iraq. It has been almost 11 months now that he has been gone. Brian will definitely miss out on another birthday with Heidi. He will miss another Halloween with her. He will miss another Thanksgiving with her. I just don't want him to miss out on another Christmas with Heidi, so even if he comes home after Christmas, we will just celebrate whenever he makes it home.