33 Months

Heidi is well on her way to becoming a big girl- she insists all the time that she is a big girl and she definitely doesn't lack any independence or self-will. She has taken the huge step out of babyhood by becoming completely potty trained! No diapers or even pull-ups for her! Its undies only and she is so proud (me too!) It seems like it kind of just happened overnight after months of us both being semi-committed to it. I'm surprised that she is able to stay dry during the nights and nap times. As long as we make sure she goes potty before going to sleep, she's good- sometimes she even wakes up and eats breakfast or plays for awhile before she goes potty.
Besides that huge news, Heidi is also blossoming in her imaginative play. She has always into pretending, but her games are getting more elaborate and inventive. She has a few stuffed animal doggies (All named "Milo" after a dog that we babysat a few times for some friends- which isn't so inventive ;) that she loves to feed and take outside to go potty. I'm also constantly tripping over cups and plates that Heidi has set out for her baby bunny to have dinner and eat her birthday cake (It's her bunny's birthday every few days). She also loves to pretend she is baking. Sometimes she makes me be minimally involved in her games, such as eating what she baked or singing to her bunny, but mostly she just plays these games all by herself.
Heidi loves to sing and dance. Sometimes at bedtime the whole family gets trapped in her room while she sings and dances around for us, insisting whenever we try to leave that she is almost done. The songs she sings are usually loosely based around songs that she knows with a lot of her own words and tunes added in.
Although Heidi still very much loves her daddy, she is glued to mom lately. She has a meltdown if Austin tries to put her to bed because she would rather I do it. This may be because I sing to her longer while I'm rubbing her back and playing with her hair, but its also because she is very interested in the fact that we are both girls. She often points out that we are "gruls" and tells the boys "Gruls only" all the time. Sometimes when I tell the kids they can't have something because its mine she tries to justify why she can have it because its just for "gruls".
Today is "Family Day" in Canada. Austin had the day off work (although he still had to go in for a bit to finish something) so we went on a little family excursion this morning. Here are the photos I got of Heidi.

 She was very interested in touching all the "big" trees, although they all seemed pretty big to me ;) I think she just liked the ones that were thicker around than the rest

And a bonus shot of all the kids