Hannah is crawling at 4 months

Hannah has been kind of creeping/scooting her body along by using her arms and legs, but her tummy has been down on the ground... but she has gradually been getting better at it... and yesterday, she started getting her tummy up off of the ground when she does it, so I think it is considered more of a crawl now. She gets up on her hands and knees and kind of rocks back and forth a few times and then a knee moves forward... and then rocks back and forth a few more times before her other knee moves forward. She's not moving very fast, but I think this is the beginnging of her crawling.

Heidi was 6 months old when she started. It seems like as soon as she discovered how to do it, she was almost immediately a Fast crawler. She never creeped or scooted either. She had been cruising around the furniture and trying to walk for a couple of months before she crawled. I almost thought she was going to walk before she crawled.

Heidi's Claritin

Last April, Heidi started coughing a lot and having a lot of post nasal drip (that I could often hear her making gulping noises to try to get rid of). I finally took her to see a doctor (I think at the end of May) because it just wasn't going away. The doctor said that she probably has allergies and that I should give her some Claritin. I only give her 1/2 tsp at night before she goes to bed (which is when her coughing is the worst). After using the Claritin for a couple/few weeks, her coughing seemed to pretty much go away, so I stopped giving it to her. Then, her coughing and post nasal drip came back again. Sometimes she coughs so much that it sounds like she is going to vomit (from all of the post nasal drip, I guess). Anyway, I had to start her back on the Claritin again. I didn't want to keep giving it to her if I didn't have to. We just ran out of the small bottle that I bought, so I'm going to buy some more today. Poor Heidi. I was hoping that whatever was causing her allergies had maybe gone away since it was now summer, but I guess not.

Hannah's schedule

Hannah seems to be napping pretty regulary now. She usually takes a morning nap (after she's been up 2 - 3 hours) around 10am or so. This one is probably her shortest nap of the day. Then she has another one around noonish (about 3 hours or so later). She usually has a pretty good noonish nap... and when she wakes up, she's probably good for another 3 hours or so before she needs another nap in the late afternoon. She's been going to bed around the same time as Heidi, too... which can range anywhere from 8pm - 9pm. Brian usually leaves work sometime after 6pm, so it takes him probably close to an hour to get home with all of the Seattle work traffic... so we usually don't eat supper until after 7pm... so sometimes Heidi gets to bed a little later than I would like for her to.

Anyway, I guess this is probably not very interesting to most people... just felt like writing about our schedule.

Can I have your pink shoes when you die, Mom?

Heidi, lately, has seemed to have a little obsession with death. She keeps asking questions about it and keeps telling me that she doesn't want to die yet... and that she doesn't want to grow up. She has asked me questions about when are her grandmas going to die... and when am I going to die.... and where we go when we die. She has told me that she doesn't want to die and go to see Jesus. My mom said that when I was her age I had an obsession with death for a while after I saw Charlotte (the spider from the movie Charlotte's Web) die. She said that I cried and cried after she died. I guess Heidi is just going through that stage now where she is just learning about what death means. She brings the topic up almost every day lately. Yesterday, though... I thought it was funny when we were just playing upstairs in the playroom (and not even talking about anything that had to do with the subject of death)... She asked me "Can I have your pink shoes when you die, Mom?" We both have matching pink crocks (the cheap fake ones from Target). I don't think she is going to really want them 50 - 70 years or so from now (which is about when I might actually die).

Heidi's Commercials

Heidi has really been getting excited about some of the commercials she has seen on tv lately. Since the switch-over to digital tv, she has been watching more commercials. Brian reprogrammed the tv to try to see if we could get more channels and we get a new channel called qubo now that has cartoons all day long... but there are also lots of commercials (most of which are for things most kids would probably not usually be interested in). Heidi gets really excited when she sees some of these commercials.

A couple of Sundays ago, I was in my bathroom getting ready for church and Heidi came in and asked me if I had any gold. After I told her that I did, she said that I could just put it in a bag... mail it in... and get my money. She had just seen one of those gold commercials. She gets so excited when that one comes on... "Mom, the gold one is on again! Come here mom... the gold one is on!" ... like I really NEED to see it.

There's another commercial about a flat iron that comes on. One day she asked me if I wanted this flat iron they were advertising. "It's only $19.99!" She tells me. "Don't you want to straighten your curly hair mom?" My hair, though, is about as straight as you can get it. When I told her no, she said she wanted to straighten her curly hair.

There are a couple of others she calls me in to see... the cozy commercial (the blanket with arms) and the big cupcake commercial. It's amazing how most of these commercials always advertise things that are either $19.99 or $19.95. Heidi is always telling me how much things are. She tells me "How Cool" things are that are advertised... and says "it's only $19.99."

One day she called me into watch a commercial about make-up. I guess it was kind of neat because it showed a before and after picture of someone and how they changed after having make-up put on. She said to me "Mom, you HAVE to come see this... it's SO COOL... and it's only $19.99!"

Just thought I'd write a quick note about Heidi's recent fascination with commercials. :)

Hannah is getting around!

Hannah is four months old and growing up so fast!

I can't keep Hannah on a blanket anymore. I used to lay her down and she would be content just playing with whatever toys were around her, but for the past two weeks, she's been getting better and better at what I guess is called creeping. She pushes herself along with her arms, legs, and feet. It's almost like a crawl, but her tummy is still on the ground, so I guess that is still considered a creep. She goes all over the place.

She also likes to talk... making loud, nonsense noises all of the time... and it is so cute when she giggles.

Hannah is also a great sleeper. Last night, I put her to bed around 9pm or so and she slept until about 6am. I fed her and she went back to sleep until about 9:45 am! She normally takes naps about every 3 hours or so throughout the day. She is also such a calm baby and hardly cries (which is very different from how Heidi was as a baby).

Just thought I'd do a quick update on how Hannah is doing (since I usually just write about Heidi).

... Heidi is saying to me "Can you please come downstairs with me Mommy because I feel bad without you and I love you, so can you please come downstairs with me?"... so I guess that is all for now.

Heidi bought me lunch with her card...

If you read my last post, then you know that Heidi was wanting me to take her to eat lunch at McDonald's one day and she said that she would pay with her "card" that looked kind of like a credit card, but it had a picture of Ariel the mermaid on it... Well, Grandma Holly and Grandpa George got a McDonald's gift card and sent it to Heidi so she could really take me to eat lunch there and pay for it herself. She was so excited to go and pay for it with her card. She got her usual chicken nuggets (with no sauce), french fries, and chocolate milk. We still have a little money left on it, so I guess we will have to go back another day too, so she can pay for lunch again.

In her picture, you can see that she has a bandaid on her head. I guess she had a little scratch on her head and she thought she needed a bandaid to make it better. She wore that bandaid for a couple of days (until I told her she had to take it off... and that she couldn't wear it to church).