Heidi: Adjusting

I think Heidi is still having some adjustment issues...

For one thing, Heidi doesn't seem to like this house as much as "the army house," as she calls it. I guess that was the first home that she can remember living in (even though it was really her second). She ran up to her room and was crying yesterday. I asked her why she was crying and she told me that she missed the army house. The house we lived in while we were in Texas was sooo much smaller (maybe 1200 sq ft, with 3 bedrooms), while this one that we have now is much bigger (3400 sq ft, with 5 bedrooms + 1 huge bonus/toy room). I guess she misses it anyway...

She also has been getting upset when I hold Hannah. She tells me to put Hannah down, so that I can hold her... or to take Hannah off of my lap, so she can sit on my lap. I think her feelings get hurt a lot when I don't just put Hannah down to give her the attention she is wanting.

Maybe she misses "the army house" because most of the time that we lived there, it was just her and me... there was no baby sister to compete with... and her Daddy wasn't even there most of the time that we lived there (as he was in Iraq for 15 months). She was just used to having all of my attention... pretty much all of the time. I guess she is just having some problems adjusting.

... We've also kind of been moving for a long time (from August 1008 - May/June 2009). In those 9 months or so, we moved around between 4 different homes until Brian found a job and we finally found a home to buy. We didn't even have our funiture during that time, so Heidi has had kind of a rough past year. Hopefully she will soon adjust to her new life and get used to her new home.