Bribing with hugs and kisses

This morning after Heidi had breakfast, she was trying to get me to give her some candy that Brian bought a few months ago. Heidi calls it "O" candy because it's shaped like the letter "O."

Heidi: Mom, I'm still hungry.
Mom: You just had breakfast.
Heidi: My leg hurts Mom. Can I please have a piece of candy to feel it better?
Mom: No.
Heidi: Please Mom? How about if I give you a kiss. Then will you give me an "O" candy to feel my leg better?
Mom: No.
Heidi: How about if I hug your neck and give you a kiss. Then will you give me an "O" candy to feel it better?
Mom: No Heidi. Candy is not good for your body and you just had breakfast.

... I finally offered her some orange juice instead of candy and she seemed fine with that.

Heidi's Frog Prince Story

Tonight Heidi started telling me a story and I thought I might just write down what she was saying, so I grabbed a paper and pen and asked her to start over. Then, I copied it into her diary/journal. I thought I would put it in here too because I thought it was cute, especially when she said that the frog "turned into the prince of course." This is different from any frog prince story that I have ever heard... Here's Heidi's story:

Once upon a time, there was a lovely princess. The princess had a dad, and she woke up in the night and she saw the frog. The frog said ribbit. And she kissed him. And he turned into the prince of course. They wanted to get married. Then her dad woke up and saw her and the prince and he said "You can't marry this person." They thew him into the dungeon. "I love him!" And they got married. They kisseded. They loved each other and they had babies and they were happy. The end.

... This is not told in perfect English, but she is only a 3-year-old. I don't know how the princess got the prince out of the dungeon. I should have asked. She was just telling it so fast that I was just trying to get it all down. Anyway, I thought it was cute. :)

Heidi: "I shouldn't have not..."

Last night, I went to Fred Meyer with Heidi and Hannah to buy a few things to make chili with today. Heidi was in the basket part of the cart and Hannah was in her car seat (on the seat part of the cart). I guess Heidi was bored because when I went to put something in the cart, I noticed that there were a few places in the hambuger plastic where you could see that someone had been pushing his/her finger into the hamburger... and in the center of the package of hamburger, there was a hole where a finger had pushed its way all of the way to the bottom of the package. I got upset with Heidi and told her that we had to wash her hands when we got home. When I told her to make sure not to put her fingers in her mouth because she could get sick from touching the raw hamburger meat, she was really concerned and she held her finger out in a way to make sure that it wouldn't touch anything for the rest of the time in the store. She even asked me "Should I hold my finger this way (bent) or this way (straight)?" When we got out to the car, she said "Mom, I shouldn't have not touched the hamburger."

Our Day At The Park

Yesterday we went to the park. Here are some of the pictures. Sunset Park is just a couple of streets away from our house. You can even see Mt. Rainier from the park (and our house, too). Heidi was moving too fast for me to get a good picture of her while we were there. She played with two little girls and seemed to have fun.

Milk

Last night, I gave Heidi some chocolate milk (for a special treat) before she went to bed and she said to me... "Milk makes you get more bones. And chocolate milk makes you get even more! Right mom?" I just thought it was funny.

Play Food

We have a playroom upstairs, but to keep the play food from being mixed in with all of the other toys, we keep it in the formal living room (since we don't have formal living room furniture). Hannah loves crawling from the family room to the formal living room to play with the play food. I don't like for her to play with the wooden food because they usually have paint on them. I am a little worried about her putting them in her mouth (since most toys that have paint have been made in China... and some have been found to have lead). Her favorite play food to go after is the plastic corn cob. I took a picture of her today after she made it back into the play food again.

Brian shared his Root Beer with Hannah

Yesterday, we all went to Costco (Brian, Heidi, Hannah, and me). Before we left, we stopped to get something to eat for lunch on the way out. We got hot dogs and drinks (because they're so cheap). Brian kept trying to give Hannah his Barq's root beer to drink and I kept getting upset with him. I didn't want her to have all of that sugar or caffeine yet. She is only 7 months old. He said she probably couldn't get anything out of his straw anyway, but I was pretty sure that she could (because she is a breastfed baby). He gave her his cup anyway and she definitely DID get a big drink without any problem! Her eyes got big and I think she actually got a little TOO much. I think she liked it though and wanted more, so Brian kept giving her more (even when I was telling him not to). I think he just really wants to feed her.