I love the age/stage that Heidi is in right now. She 'putters' as my Dad calls it all around the house all day. She will play with Legos or Calico Critters or cars or her baby stuff for a long time by herself just trying to figure it all out. We all love watching her play and seeing what she does with things. She has also started talking so much more. Sadly, one of her favorite words has become 'Noooo' but she still says it in an awfully cute way. She also says 'Stinky' and 'Hi-ee' (Heidi) and 'Yucky' and 'twinkle' and 'Eeeen-uuu' (clean-up). We're starting to figure out what words are more from the intonation she uses than the actual sounds, especially 'Clean-up.' And a word about that - if you ask her to clean-up something - she almost always will - it is amazing to watch this girl clean up all the Legos after me simply telling her it is time to clean up. Now if only we could get her big sister to listen that well! :)
She is also very easy to put to bed for both naps and bedtime. I don't know that we ever thought Allison was that difficult but man, Heidi is a dream when it comes to bed time. As long as she has her bunny all you have to do is say 'It is time to go get jammies on' and she heads up to her room, lets you change her, read her two stories, pray, sing and lay her down. And you won't hear a peep until you go get her in the morning - pretty much whenever you want regardless of when she wakes up. Well, unless she happens to drop bunny out of her crib, then she'll start calling for you. Thankfully that only happens on rare occasions.
Yes, we love our Heidi-bug. There are plenty of challenges at this age, too, don't get us wrong. But in so many ways it is pretty fun. Speaking of fun - at dinner tonight I gave Heidi her piece of a cookie we were sharing between her, Allison and I. Mark was convinced she'd prefer one of his brownies to the snicker-doodle. Ha - she took the brownie and refused to give up the cookie so she got TWO treats tonight. I don't know how Mark ever thought he was going to win that one?!?!? :)
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