Snow White Barbie

Heidi has been driving me CRAZY about getting her a Snow White Barbie doll the past day or two. She keeps telling me to just go to the store and buy one. Tonight, I went to the store and got her one, but she won't get to actually have it until Christmas Day (our Christmas day will be the day after Brian gets home from Iraq... around the 29th). She still keeps asking for a Snow White doll, so I just told her once that she needed to ask Santa for one and maybe he would give her one, so tonight, she was trying to get me to take her to see Santa.... then she kept saying "Santa gimme Snow White doll... ask Santa... please."
This evening, we watched The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and Heidi told me that the little blonde haired, blue-eyed two-year-old in the movie was her. I guess it does look kind of like a cartoon version of her (same age, same eye & hair color)... She has gotten into picking a character she is when she watches movies. She is usually the princess. She sometimes will tell me something like "My name's Pocahontas and you are John Smith... come dance with me." (That's what she told me yesterday)... and then we dance around the living room for a couple of minutes.

Tonight we also read Dr Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham for about the millionth time! She really likes that book. We also read The Very Hungry Caterpiller (she likes to try to count and put her fingers in the holes on the pictures of food in the book).

I guess that is all for now. I can't think of anything else interesting about our day to write about.

Climbing

Last night after I gave Heidi her bath (before bedtime), I told her to go into her room and pick two books while I pick-up in the bathroom. That is our usual routine. We usually pick two books to read every night at bedtime. I saw her walk into her room, so I thought she might go get some books out... so I went on with my picking up in the bathroom....

Well, a couple of minutes later (after I had finished picking up the bathroom), I walked into Heidi's room and saw her sitting on top of her changing table! There are 3 drawers & she had pulled out the middle drawer and used it to climb up to sit on the top of the changing table. Then, I guess she opened the top drawer and pulled the baby powder (which we rarely use) out and had started putting it on herself. I was shocked to find her there... it was the first time she had gotten up there by herself. She was laughing when I walked in. I think she was pretty proud of her accomplishment.

When Brian gets home, we need to lower her crib all of the way down too... or maybe just go ahead and make it into a toddler bed. It's down pretty low now, but she tries to get out and I have found her up on the side rail... and have to put her back into the crib... so it's kind of dangerous right now. I don't think I can lower it though. I would be afraid I would ruin it somehow.... and Brian made it, so I don't want to chance that happening.

"I need some more Barbies Mom..."

I was sitting in the computer room writing Brian an email this evening while Heidi was playing in the living room when she decided to come in and tell me that she needed more Barbies...

Heidi: Mom I need some more Barbies... c'mon Mom, Let's go shopping... c'mon Mom c'mon... Let's go to the store and buy more.

Me: I'm sorry, but we can't go to the store and buy you more Barbies right now. Maybe if you ask Santa, he might bring you one for Christmas. He likes to bring presents to kids on Christmas day, so maybe if you ask him, he might give you a Barbie for Christmas...

Heidi: Okay, Santa Claus... Barbie

... so maybe if we see Santa again, she will ask for a Barbie next time (instead of asking for her Daddy, like she did last week in the mall).

Our Car Accident Yesterday

Yesterday on our way to Wal-Mart to print out our Christmas cards (with a picture of Heidi), I was sitting at a red light on Fort Hood Street with my eyes on the light... just waiting for it to change to green... when all of the sudden, I felt our car get hit by a big blue truck. Luckily it didn't hit us very hard because he started the hit on the door where Heidi sits in her carseat... and ended the hit on the front passenger door. I don't really understand what he was doing because he t-boned us. I don't understand how the FRONT of his car hit the SIDE of our car while we were sitting at a red light. He said he was trying to go around someone, but it still doesn't make sense to me. I talked to his insurance company and now I need to take care of getting it repaired and get a rental car. This is frustrating me because I also have a bunch of other things I need to be doing this week and next. Oh well. I guess it could have been worse. I am just glad he didn't hit us very hard because it would have probably hurt Heidi if he had because he hit right where she was).

Heidi's Visit With Santa

It has been about a month since I have written anything here, so I thought I would add something tonight. Last week, I took Heidi to the mall and Santa was there, so we stopped by to say hello to him. Heidi sat on his lap and when he asked her what she wanted for Christmas this year, she paused for a few seconds and then, with a very serious face, she said "Bring Daddy bad home." Santa said something like "I'm sorry, but I can't do that, but he will be home as soon as his time is up over there." I think when he asked her if she wanted anything else, she just said no.

She has been asking where Daddy is a LOT lately, so I have been telling her for the last couple of months that Daddy will be home when it is Chrismtas. Well, he is supposed to be home around the 29th or 30th of December (after Christmas), but we are planning on celebrating after he gets home anyway. Heidi won't know the difference. However, I think she is thinking it is now Christmas, so she wants to know where her Daddy is. She has been getting upset about it too... and she wants him home. I guess it does seem like it is Christmas now because she has seen Santa Claus & we have our Christmas tree and decorations up around the house. She just doesn't understand. It will really be nice to finally have him home again.

Too Stressed!

I have been too stressed lately! I just have too much going on with being a mom, an FRG leader, a friend (not so good one right now though, as I am either sick a lot lately or just never available), sick a lot lately... oh, have I already mentioned that?... and constantly babysitting for people at the last minute... which makes it tough to cross the 10 million things to do off of my to-do lists. I got frustrated with someone today when they didn't show up and they were supposed to meet with me so I could sign for a building that we are using for our company garage sale tomorrow. She told me to meet her at 3pm, so I was there 10'till 3pm. I waited until 10 min after 3pm... and left very frustrated. I went home made and called the housing office and the community building office and left not-so-friendly messages explaining my situation and letting them know they needed to call me back and meet me up there to give me a key. We were not even home long enough today for Heidi to get a nap! Poor baby! We stopped by the house a couple of times... and one time we had lunch... and one time for a little while I babysat at our house. I have just hardly been home. Well, it is now 2:22am. I guess I should try to get some sleep. I just thought maybe I would feel a little better if I wrote a little to explain SOME of my frustrations. It just seems like I cannot accomplish everything that I want to do every day. I just finished making garage sale signs for our company. I still need to load up my car with things to take and get a diaper bag ready for tomorrow... and then need to be in the car ready to go at 5:45am, so I really don't know what the point of going to bed at this time would be. Anyway, I'm just looking forward to a day off .... when I am not sick... and I really want this cold to go away that I have had for what seems to have been over two weeks now.

Leah?

While we were in the commissary this evening at the Midnight Madness sale, Heidi kept asking me what my name was (What's your name?)... and I would say "My name is Mommy. What's your name?" Then, she kept telling me "Leah. Name's Leah." Then she would laugh.... and say "silly Heidi" while doing the sign for "silly." She was being silly. She was pretty good in the commissary... better than she usually is. Usually, I have to fight to keep her strapped in the seat part of the cart. And, if I put her in the cart, she either starts throwing things out or she sometimes even tries to climb out. She thinks she can put her legs over the side and get out, but she doesn't realize that her legs won't reach the ground... and she could fall and really get hurt. Shopping with her is usually a struggle. This evening, though, she was actually pretty well behaved and acted a little silly telling me that her name was Leah over and over again.

I did get a few things that were on sale tonight. I got Huggies diapers on sale 50% off (4 packs). I also got a 13 pound turkey for $5.... and a few other things that I am sure nobody is probably interested in hearing about (ordinary grocery items).