Tonight's Counting...

Tonight, Heidi just started counting... "2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10."

She always misses one number... tonight it was #1.

Brian found out that he did not get into the acquisition corp today, so I guess he will be getting out of the army. It is a little scary because we don't know what he will do or where we will go. He doesn't know if he wants to go back to school or just find a job somewhere. It is especially scary because I was hoping to have another baby next year, so I hope he can at least find a job with some good insurance! His command is up in April and it takes 6 months for his papers to go through.... so he might be out this spring or summer sometime. I guess we will have to see what happens! We just don't want to be apart every other year.... and right now, I think they are on a schedule (at least at this post) to be home 12 months, gone 15, home 12, gone 15, etc.... so this is for the best.

Halloween 2007

Heidi went trick-or-treating dressed as Snow White tonight. She had a lot of fun. I don't think she was afraid of anyone that she saw. There were some things that she had to stop and stare at for a while though. I got a lot of cute pictures of her in her costume to send to Brian, so he can see his little princess all dressed up.

Before we went, though, Heidi did NOT want to put on her costume. When we bought it, she was just dying to wear it, but I told her we had to save it for Halloween. Today was finally Halloween, so I got it out for her to wear... but she just kept telling me NO, and that she was not going to wear it. Instead, she went back to the dirty clothes closet in the bathroom and pulled out a dirty dress and started dancing around the living room with it. She said that she wanted to wear this dirty dress instead. Of course, she did not really understand what Halloween was all about... so I had to call Grandma Holly up to tell her to put on her costume and bribe her with a piece of chocolate to let me get it on her.

When we went outside (after I got her dressed in her Snow White costume and red sparkly shoes), and she ran over next door to play with Amy (our neighbor). Then, we started our trick-or-treating for the night. Heidi definitely had a fun night. We handed back out some of her candy when we were finished... along with some that we had bought. I did leave some in her pumpkin basket for her though.

Ten!

Yesterday, Heidi even made it counting to TEN!

When I tell Heidi that she is smart, she says "Heidi's smart" and does the sign for smart. :)

Last night, we were in the car driving to Wal-Mart and Heidi put her fingers in her ears and was asking me if I could hear her. She is so silly! I guess she must have seen someone plug their ears... and maybe someone asked them if they could hear them? She must have seen that from somewhere.

Heidi Counts to NINE!...sort of... and she isn't even two yet!

Heidi has been counting to two for a long while now. I have been trying to get her to count to three. A few days ago, I thought I heard her counting in the car to six, but thought she may not be able to do it again... and she didn't want to do it for me when I asked her to. Well, today on the phone when we were talking to Grandpa Bob, I asked Heidi to count to two for Grandpa... and she said "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ... 9." She had counted to 9!!! She missed #8, but I think she did Really well for not even being two-years-old yet!

She is still asking for milk in the mornings when she wakes up too. I guess I still have some milk, but I am not going to feed her. She really had a hard time with not getting any breastmilk this morning. She was not happy with me for a while after she woke up. Oh well, I fed her until she was 23-months-old... I have been trying to wean her since she was 12-months-old. She was lucky she got breastmilk as long as she did. :) Most people don't breastfeed their kids until they can count to nine.

Heidi's Pretend Play Today: The Pig wants to eat BACON?

We were just in the living room playing with Heidi's barn. I was the pig and she was the sheep. First, I put the sheep to bed (hugs, kisses, night nights, etc). Then, the sheep tucked the pig into bed (same thing). Then, the sheep said "wake up pig." I guess it was morning, and it was also time to eat because the sheep was saying "eating time.. cup please." So I, the pig, got the sheep a plastic toy cup to drink from. Then, the sheep said "eating time again." So, I, the pig, asked the sheep "What will you cook for me to eat?" The sheep said back to me, the PIG, "BACON!" haha. I just thought it was funny that the sheep would cook bacon for the pig to eat. Heidi doesn't know that bacon comes from pigs yet. Actually, I don't think she has even ever eaten bacon before. I don't usually buy it. Anyway, just something that I thought was funny from today's pretend play. :)

sick

Days 7 and 8 of the weaning (Sat and Sun) were still sore days. I was sick all night Sunday night (up all night throwing up and spent the night on the bathroom floor in between throwing-ups). Then, Monday morning I was still a little nautious and kind of dizzy... so I just rested most of the day. I even had to cancel something that I was supposed to go do with my FRG yesterday morning. We were going to get together and put together cookie mixes in jars to sell as a fundraiser, but I had to cancel it (because I am the one who has everything except for the jars and I just could not go). Now is it Tuesday morning, and I think I finally do not have anymore milk! ... and so I am NOT sore anymore! YAY! Maybe being so sick and constantly throwing up helped it go away, finally.

Day Six: Heidi wanted milk at naptime...

I am really tired tonight, so I'm not going to write much in my blog. Just wanted to do a quick update on our weaning process. Overall, I think Heidi is doing pretty well now with the weaning. She was pretty tired when she finally went down for a nap, though, (we had two things going on this morning back-to-back, so she was pretty worn out). I think she was just overly tired, so she wanted milk. I didn't give her any. We just rocked and I gave her a sippy cup with water and after a couple of minutes, she was ready for bed. Tonight, she didn't ask me for milk when she went to bed.

Another quick note: We went to a Parents as Teachers playgroup meeting today and made bread (that ended up being too salty... maybe because Heidi was helping pour and stir). She enjoyed the stirring part. She just did not like getting her hands dirty. In that way, she is a lot like me. I remember I didn't like getting dirty when I was younger. Whenver she put her hands into the dough, she would pull them out and see flour and sticky dough on her hands and it just really upset her that her fingers were dirty. I guess she won't be wanting to help me make bread again anytime soon.