Hannah is on the move...

Hannah seems to have a more coordinated crawl now. Before, she was doing kind of an inchworm crawl, but now she can move her opposite arms and legs the way she is supposed to. She goes a little slower when she crawls the right way. She still sometimes uses her inchworm crawl if she wants to get across the room really fast. She is also pulling herself up to the coffee table and the couch a lot now.

Heidi & Hannah: Opposites Again

Since Heidi was a baby, she has always been afraid of the vacuum cleaner. Even now, she is three years old and she still runs out of the way when a vacuum cleaner is near (and sometimes jumps up onto the couch to get away from it).

Hannah, however, seems to follow me around when I am vacuuming. She shows no fear of it. We have two totally opposite girls in so many ways.

Hannah can pinch to pick-up things!

Hannah is using her index finger and her thumb to pick little things up off of the ground now. Earlier this week, she picked up a couple of small scraps of paper (from the edges) using her index finger and thumb. Today, she picked up a piece of cereal that Heidi dropped. Another milestone, I guess.

We need to babyproof!

Hannah is 6 months old and has been pulling herself up lately. Today, she has even found the wall outlets. She keeps going over to them and hitting them with her hands. We need to start baby proofing!

Heidi's still missing the "army house"

Today, Heidi and I were sitting on the couch watching Sesame Street (which she has not really been interested in watching for a while), when we saw a cowgirl type of character in one of the little scenes. She was from Texas. I said something to Heidi like "She's from Texas. Do you remember when we lived in Texas? In the army house at Fort Hood?" She suddenly got a very serious look on her face and said in a very serious tone "I'm not going to talk about that." She still misses her old "army house."

Sometimes she asks me if a new family is living in it right now. And sometimes she tells me that she wants to go home. I think she means that she wants to go back to the "army house" at Fort Hood. That is the first house she remembers living in (even though it was really her second).

Some of the silly things Heidi says...

Saturday morning when I asked Heidi what she wanted for breakfast, she told me that she wasn't hungry. She went upstairs and played for a while. Eventually, she came downstairs and said "My tummy keeps growling. I told him to stop, but he wouldn't."

Heidi also told me Saturday night "I'm too tired to go to sleep."

Heidi is trying to make my grandpa come back...

Yesterday, Heidi asked me "Mommy, when did your grampa die?" I told her that my grandpa died before she was born. (Actually both of them had already died before she was born, but I didn't know which one she meant. Maybe she doesn't even know that I have two grandpas.) Then, she didn't say or ask anything more about him.

Today, Heidi told me that she was going to play a song on the Fisher Price baby grand piano that would make my grandpa come back. She said that she would have to "do it all night and all day, so it will be hard work." Then, she sat down at the piano and started playing a song and was singing "I want my mommy's grampa to come back right now..." She eventually was distracted when she saw something good come on tv.

I think she is confused about death and seems to have a fascination with the subject of death right now.