Our Little Miss is two! and this is very apparent in the way she acts :) She is all giggles and smiles one minute, crying about tiny things a minute later, then back to playing again soon afterward. She is curious and into everything. She is a busy little body who loves to draw (not always on paper), talk, and sing. Heidi is still a little ray of sunshine in our family. She loves to play with her brothers, but also loves to just be with mom (a phrase that I hear from her a lot lately is "I want you") and likes me to sing to her or play little games with her. She has started calling Trevor "baby bumblebee" and loves to get him to laugh at her. She loves very much to be with her daddy and since he leaves before she wakes up every morning, she asks where he is every morning and is disappointed to hear that he has already left for work. She is very happy when he comes home in the evenings and even when it is late, she insists on spending some time with him before she goes to bed. Heidi's language continues to grow exponentially. She is starting to speak in small paragraphs- a few short sentences at a time. To practice her vocabulary and sentence structure, she often mimics word for word what she hears me or her brothers say. Asher gets a huge kick out of this and loves to feed her things to say, which means he is basically running a very silly conversation between the two of them. Her mimicking also applies to songs- she sings along with all the little songs I sing to her and her brothers even when she isn't sure of all the words. She just mumbles along until she knows a word and eventually gets most of them down (although I'm sure she still doesn't understand some of the words and still mumbles them). Her favorite song right now is "Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree". She asks me to sing it by saying "pottorn" many times a day, especially at bedtime and loves to sing along. (as a side note, she calls unicorns "pottorn" as well-I guess the words "unicorn" and "popcorn" are just too similar in her head :) She also really likes "I Love to See the Temple", but is usually happy with any song I sing. Heidi also loves to eat! She can pack away quite a bit when she is hungry, but other times she will just pick at things. Her hungriest time of the day seems to be in late morning. She usually picks at her own breakfast, then when I get around to eating a couple hours later, she expects me to share my omlet with her (its a really good way to get veggies that she usually won't eat into her, so I have no problem with this) then wants to have several other things to eat before she is ready to stop and wait for lunch.
For Heidi's birthday this year, we gave Asher and Leif each $5 and took them to the dollar store by our house to pick out presents for Heidi. This is a pretty good dollar store, although many of the items aren't actually a dollar, they have a good selection of things, especially for kids. While it's nice for Heidi to have more presents to open on her birthday, the real purpose of this activity was to teach Asher and Leif about buying presents for other people. They both went into the store with the idea that Heidi likes things different than what they would want. They did a pretty good job picking out her presents, but I had to give them some guidance when they insisted that she would really want some trucks or some dinosaurs. (In truth, she does play with all of their "boy" toys, but the quality of what they wanted to get was much lower than the toys that we already have and it would be nice to have a few more girl things around). So I helped them pick out things that interested them, but were also good for Heidi. Leif settled on a big multi-colored neon ball and some cupcake stickers and Asher got her a princess cup, some glow sticks, growing dinosaur sponges and some play dough tools. They were very excited to hide them from her and wrap them up during her nap.
Heidi's actual birthday turned a little less glamorous than I would have liked, but she still had fun. Austin agreed to work from home so that we could finally go get our Ontario drivers licenses, so the poor girl got to sit in a crowded office for a couple hours first thing in the morning. But she sure was glad to have her daddy there when she woke up!
When we got finally got home, I made the kids chocolate waffles with whipped cream and strawberries. We put candles on for Heidi and she somehow instinctively knew to blow them out after we sang to her.
The boys begged and begged to open presents all day long, so when I finally said ok in the afternoon, they we ecstatic! They had just as much fun as Heidi did :)
Here she is in the evening playing while wearing every single pair of underwear that we gave her for her birthday (she isn't really ready for them yet, but they were a fun present to get). Below is a back view where you can see a little better all the pairs she is wearing (seven overall). We ended the day kind of lame because Austin had to work so much to make up for taking the morning off and I ended up getting mastitis and was extremely fatigued, dizzy, and felt terrible overall. But the kids had brownies and ice cream and were very excited about it.
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