Quick Heidi & Hannah Update (because I haven't written anything in a while)

I haven't written anything in my blog in forever, so I thought I'd write a couple of quick notes...

The other day at preschool, Heidi's teacher told me that they were playing a game in class where the teacher would say, for instance, "What body part begins with the letter...?" Well, when she said "What body part begins with the letter "L" ... and she told them that they have two of these.... Heidi answered with "lungs." I think she's smart. :)

Hannah has been talking a LOT lately. She copies almost anything Heidi tries to do (whether it's good or bad). She used to love things like broccoli, green beans, and spaghetti until she heard Heidi say "yuck, broccoli" or "yuck, spaghetti." She loves wearing her pink, princess raincoat ALL of the time... even around the house. She also loves wearing a pink headband a lot that came with a nightgown that Grandma Vesta gave her a while back. I think her favorite colors are pink and purple because those are the colors that she usually chooses when I get a bowl or plate for her to eat with. For Christmas, she got tons of great presents! When she walked down the stairs and saw everything that Santa left for her, she got SO Excited! She kept saying babydoll and had an overly-excited laugh! She saw her babydoll in the little wooden highchair that Santa left for her in front of the tree and was just soooo excited to get down there and play with it!

Heidi also got a lot of great presents! Her biggest gift from Santa this year was a doll house mansion that she can use with her barbies. It's even taller than she is & she is tall for a 5-year-old! Santa also brought her an American Girl doll that has brown hair, brown eyes, and tan skin. She had been wanting one for a long time, so when I found one at a second-hand store in Bellingham (that was in perfect condition) I got it to give to her from Santa. She loves it and sleeps with it every night, but she tells me sometimes that she really wishes that her doll had blue eyes and blonde hair like she has. She has named her Katie. ... which reminds me, that's the same name that she told me the day I told her that I was pregnant in Texas that "you're going to have a girl and her name is going to be Katie." She really likes that name. We had even considered it (when I was pregnant with Hannah), but didn't use it. She sometimes uses it for some of her other dolls names, too.

Well, at least this is a little bit of an update for now...

"Chicken Chicken Yuck"

Saturday night, we had Chinese food for supper. Hannah wanted to try the General Tso's chicken (which wasn't too spicy, like it sometimes is), so I put a little on her plate and cut it up. After she tasted it, she said "chicken chicken YUCK!" I thought it was funny. She enjoyed the rice, though. :)

Heidi's Birthday List

Heidi told me that she wanted to make a birthday wish list, so here it is:

• Chocolate cake
• Chocolate ice cream
• Strawberry cupcakes
• Chocolate chip cookies
• "O" candies
• Fishie candies
• A new McDonald's toy
• A Starsong baby My Little Pony (I think she already has the Starsong My Little Pony, though)
• Pillow Pet (unicorn)
• A skirt
• Cinderella Pajamas, a nightgown
• Jasmine nightgown
• A Barbie house
• I want Hannah to give me chocolate milk
• I want Grandma Sylvia to give me a new coloring book.
• I want Grandma Holly to give me a new princess nightgown.
• I want Grandpa George to give me the new Tinkerbell movie.
• I want my mommy to give me a Barbie Fashion Fairytale movie.
• I want Grandpa Bob to give me a new princess purse.
• Alicia can just give me a surprise thing.
• Sophie can give me a surprise thing, too... and Sienna.
• Michelli and Alicia, a surprise thing, too.
• Ella can give me a surprise thing, too.
• They have to get me a girl thing.
• The end.

Putting Hannah To Bed Tonight...

When I put Hannah to bed at night, I try to talk about things that we did that day. I used to do the same with Heidi. It's fun to get reactions from them about what we did that day. Today, I talked to Hannah about dropping Heidi off at the babysitter's house (but not her b/c she has a yucky nose) and how we said bye bye to her... and I asked her if she rememered going to see the doctor with me because Mommy had to have stitches taken out of her back... and I asked her if she rememered playing in the front yard today with squirt guns and spray bottles, squirting water on the ground (she looked up at me and smiled)... and I asked her if she remembered playing with Elmo (a doll) today. She put her hands palm up (like I do when I ask where something is) and said "go? .... Elmo go?" (Elmo sounds a little more like "Ahhmo," but she's been getting better at almost saying the "l" sound with it, like "Ahlmo.") Then, I remembered where we had left it and told her that I would be right back. I came back with Elmo and she was still sitting in the rocking chair where I had left her, excited to see that I had brought Elmo back with me. She kept saying "back back, Elmo... back back." I also asked her if she remembered putting her baby doll in her high chair and trying to feed her sippy cup to her. Then, she kept getting frustrated because the high chair is too high for her to reach the baby very well and couldn't take her out of it by herself, so I had to help her. I told Brian tonight that I think we should get her a baby doll high chair for her Christmas present from us. He thought it was a good idea. She does like feeding her baby doll a lot. Sometimes I give her a spoon and a little plastic bowl from the kitchen and she loves to try to pretend feed her doll... and then she usually puts them night night, or "nigh nigh," as Hannah would say it. I guess I usually put her to bed after I feed her lunch... and pretty soon after supper, too. Anyway, that's most of what we talked about tonight before Hannah went to bed. Then, when she went to bed, she took Elmo with her. She usually has Elmo, a baby doll, Minnie Mouse, a caterpillar, and Curious George in her crib (all around the edges). Tonight she cuddled with her arms around the baby doll when she went to sleep.

Heidi's Smoothie

Heidi just made me a smoothie in the playroom. Here's what she put in it:

Peanut butter
Blueberries
Blueberry juice
Chocolate
Ketchup

Sounds yummy, huh? :)

Playtime

I was playing barbies with Heidi in the playroom a little while ago and I was the Mulan barbie. Heidi asked me what people in China ate, so I told her that people in China eat a lot of rice. Then, her barbie told mine (Mulan) something like "Mulan, come over to my house... We have some rice to eat." Then, she said "When Mulan saw the rice, she ate it all up and didn't share any of it. She just couldn't help it... She was just so hungry and she thought it just looked like a little plate." I thought it was kind of funny. Hannah just kept trying different dress-up clothes on. She seems to know who is a boy and who is a girl now, too. She does the signs and points out girls and boys in books that we read... and she knows that she, Heidi, and I are girls... and Daddy is a boy. I guess this may not be the most interesting post to most people, but just thought I'd write a little about what we were doing in the playroom today. :)

Hannah is learning colors and saying a little more lately

Hannah going on 19 months old (on the 20th) and knows some of her colors now. She definitely knows brown, black, and pink. Sometimes she gets red, yellow, and blue right... but sometimes she doesn't, too. She's also been saying a lot more lately. Today when we were in the playroom, Heidi put on a pink star necklace and gave the blue star necklace to Hannah to wear, but Hannah didn't want that one! Instead she pointed to Heidi's necklace and said "ne"or "neck" (for necklace) & then said "bink dar" (pink star). She didn't want the blue star one, she wanted the PINK STAR one!

... She also can identify a few shapes. She knows hearts and circles. She says "heart" really well! For "circle," it sounds a little more like "doree" or "der-ill." She can also identify stars and calls a star a "dar."