Some Things Heidi Is Stubborn About

Heidi and I participated in a banner signing today for Brian's company. Some families just got together and signed a couple of banners and put handprints on them. We will mail them over after the next FRG meeting. In one of the pictures above, I had asked Heidi to draw a picture for her Daddy and then I said "Why don't you draw him some circles." You can see her drawing a circle in one of the pictures above. She also drew like 2 or 3 more next to it.

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Today, I just thought I would write about some things that Heidi is stubborn about...

1. Heidi is very picky when it comes to getting her own silverware, or should I say plasticware, out for meal time. As soon as she finds out we are eating, she HAS to have a fork or a spoon... and sometimes even one of her plastic knives. Most of the time, she doesn't want to wait until I am finished cooking. She has to have her fork and spoon right then! She also usually wants to get it out of the silverware drawer herself. She is especially picky about the colors that she gets (also with her plate colors). She normally ALWAYS wants PINK silverware, but when that is dirty, she has to settle for another color. We have the plastic IKEA silverware for kids, which comes in a bunch of different colors.

2. She is also very picky about what plate she eats off of. She normally either wants a pink plate or a princess plate. She gets upset if I hand her another color, unless I explain to her that her pink plate and her princess plate are dirty.

3. Heidi also likes to choose which brand of diaper to wear. We have Blues Clues diapers (Luvs), Minnie Mouse (which are really Mickey and Minnie, but she calls them Minnie Mouse; Huggies), and Tweety Bird (White Cloud). She usually has to pick or gets upset, unless I explain that we are out of the kind she is wanting at that particular diaper change.

4. Heidi does not like for me to brush her teeth. She is EXTREMELY stubborn about this! She will brush them herself, but does not do a very good job, so I always brush after I let her have a try. She really fights me with this! I sometimes have to pinch her cheeks just to get the toothbrush into her mouth. Then she clamps her mouth closed, she bites down on the toothbrush, and sometimes she even will stick her tongue in front of her teeth so I can't brush them. This is probably the one thing that she is THE MOST STUBBORN ABOUT!

5. Being NAKED! I guess this is just a stage she is going through, but a lot of the time if we have been away, as soon as we come in the door and I start taking my shoes off... Heidi not only wants her shoes off, but she wants EVERYTHING taken off! She says "clothes off... naked naked." She will do the sign for clothes and say she wants them off. I have decided to pick my battles, and that this is just something I don't care about fighting over, so I usually will just take her clothes off for her. She usually sings kind of a naked song after I take her clothes off.. saying "naked naked" and kind of dances. I talked to someone else at church and she says that her daughter has done the same thing before. I guess she doesn't like wearing clothes either. I remember my sister Joie didn't like wearing clothes when she was younger. Brian had a sister that didn't like wearing clothes either, so I guess it is just in Heidi's genes.

6. Heidi is also pretty stubborn about the tv. I hardly EVER watch tv, but if I do want to try and see if something is on every great once in a while, Heidi and I sometimes have to have a talk about whose turn it is to pick what is on the tv. She gets really upset when she doesn't get her way, but I am not going to give in on this. Lately, she has been wanting to watch Pocahantas and Sleeping Beauty a lot.