Play luffys?

In case you are wondering, we are alive, well, and finally feeling SETTLED!  What a glorious feeling.  We had a rough go of it trying to pack with all three of with ear infections and antibiotics, but we are feeling better and are so happy to be in one place.  With the help of Jeff's wonderful parents, we moved out of our darling little home last weekend and into our temporary townhouse until the new house is built.  We can't thank Jeff's parents enough because without them it would have taken us probably 2 more weeks and we just didn't have time with Jeff's work schedule.  We don't close until next week, but Jeff only had one weekend off this month so we had to take advantage of it.  We all miss our old home and town, but we are so, so, so relieved to be done with the packing and moving...at least for a few more months :).  Heidi is adjusting pretty well to her new house but she definitely misses her old house.  At least once a day she brings us her shoes and says, "Back Heila's house."

Since moving to our new place one of Heidi's favorite games involves all of her washcloths (aka "luffys") and her dad.  She repeatedly says, "Play luffys dada?" multiple times a day.  This game involves Jeff placing the washcloths carefully all over Heidi.  Once they are there, she lays really still and says, "Heila sleep now."  That lasts about 2 seconds then she pops up and says, "HEILA WAKE!"  It is so funny to watch and every washcloth must be used and at least one must be placed on her head.  Everyday more and more of her funny personality makes us laugh.

My other favorite game is called, "Where did Heila go?"  Every chance Heidi gets she either finds a place to hide or just covers her eyes and says, "Where did Heila go?"  It never ceases to be a thrill when we "find" her.  Oh how I love this little girl and wish we could just freeze time.

lack of posting?

So you may see a lot fewer posts from us for a little while.  Our month is going to be crazy but I will try to update as often as I can.

1.  We sold our house...lots and lots of mixed emotions with that one.
2.  Our closing date is May 31...so stressful, but also good because that means we can break ground sooner.
3.  As soon we close, we should be able to start building the next week...fingers and toes crossed.
4.  We are praying with all our might that we will be in the new house before BABY #2 makes their big debut around November 15.

In other news, this pregnancy has been quite difficult.  It took a few months of clomid, which caused a lot of horrible headaches.  Then at 7 weeks I started spotting.  I had to have an ultrasound and they did find a small cyst which the doctor is hoping will go away by the 20 week ultrasound.  Once I we finally got pregnant, the nausea was almost unbearable.  Just like Heidi I have been suffering with horrible, horrible migraines.  I think they are far worse than they were with Heidi, but now that I am 12 weeks there is a prescription medication I can start taking, which will hopefully help.  In spite of it all, we are so thrilled we are being blessed with another little one to love.  I will take all the headaches if it means we can have another little one in our home!

signs of a toddler

 Now that we are in full blown toddler mode, there are constant reminders around our house of the little one that rules the roost.  Ever since seeing a bottle of shampoo in a window in one of the books we were reading, Heidi is obsessed with putting shampoo in our windows.  She takes out all the travel bottles and puts them in and out of the window sill saying, "Shompoo, windy.  Yeah!"  She also has now begun adding water bottles to her collection.  So if you see random bottles in our window, you know why.

 Windows don't stay fingerprint free for very long.  Now that Jeff is back to mowing the lawn Heidi has resumed her position watching and waving at her favorite pal.

 Although I am CONSTANTLY picking up Heidi's shoes, I love seeing them around the house.  She has named every pair she owns and goes around the house switching them all day.  "Church shoes, park shoes, new shoes," are words I hear all day long.

 I have found crayon in a few places where it shouldn't be.  Thankfully I have only had to wipe it off the wall, door, toliet, and tub once.  She is pretty good about not doing something I tell her not to again (knock on wood), but she does draw on her little table and chair A LOT.  Thank goodness for washable crayons.

 Heidi's little pictures are all over the house.  While she does like to draw on her own and is getting better and trying to draw circles, she mostly tells Jeff and I what she wants us to draw.  "Draw daddy, blue hair.  Draw daddy, ladder.  Draw Ernie.  Draw daddy house ladder."  I hear those ones a lot.

Heidi loves to "help".  Every time I am putting laundry away in my room she runs to her room saying, "Help mama.  Heila help mama".  It doesn't take long before I hear her drawer open and it gets really quiet.  Almost always I leave my room to find her drawers completely empty.  As soon as I go in her room she starts clapping saying, "Goo jo (good job), Heila!  Yeah!"  Then she starts clapping those little hands and I can't help but smile as I fold the clothes and put them back for the 50th time that week.

Although our little toddler creates lots of extra work, I love seeing all the signs that I have a little one in my house...especially this little one.

Easter day

 On Easter morning Jeff and I were so excited to see Heidi's reaction to her Easter basket.  While she was excited, she was not her best self that day.  What is it about holidays??  I seem to remember her having a rough Christmas morning too.  Anywho...she was more than thrilled with this little piggy the Easter bunny brought her.  She had to have her pig on her tray while she ate breakfast and she hasn't hardly put the thing down since Sunday.

 Of course she was thrilled to open eggs.  She says, "POP!" every time she opens one.  She loves plastic eggs.  We never even put her eggs away from last year because she has so much fun playing with them.  She was thrilled to have a new stash since the ones from last year are well loved and a lot of them have been lost throughout the year!

 When we were getting candy for her eggs Jeff insisted on getting robin eggs so he could show Heidi how to color her lips.  I'm not sure who was more excited about it.

 Heidi kept wanting to look in the mirror at her blue lips and she kept saying, "Blue lips!  Blue lips!" all day long.

Holidays are so, so, so much more fun with this little one around!  The countdown is on for the Fourth of July!

the egg hunt(s)

 I had a feeling Heidi would love hunting for eggs this year, and her excitement did not disappoint.  Jeff and Michael had fun hiding her eggs around the back yard.

 Heidi had to have a little help reaching a few of the eggs.

 Nothing cuter than watching her reach for the eggs.  She would clap every time she got one and say, "Yay!"

 The basket started getting heavy after awhile and she would say, "Backa heavy!" 

Once she collected all of her eggs, she kept saying, "More!  More eggy!  Eggy tree!  More!"  So we hid the eggs again...and again...and to be honest, we are still hiding them at least once a day!  How can you say no to that little face?

dying the eggs

 Easter was so much this year.  Heidi loved every single part of the festivities from dying eggs to wearing a "fancy dress" to church.  We colored eggs on Friday night and Heidi had an absolute blast.  She loves colors so she loved picking what color to make each egg.

 As soon as the egg went in the dye she wanted to pick it up and admire it.  We told her it had to dry first.  So naturally she started blowing on the eggs.  I guess she figured it was like when we paint her nails and tell her we have to blow them dry before she touches anything.

 She wanted daddy to start blowing the eggs dry with her.

My little brother, Michael, came up from Utah State to join in all the Easter festivities.  We had so much fun!

curlers

 I have a whole bunch of Easter pictures to post, but I decided I better post these before they get lost in all the festivities.  The other day Heidi found sponge rollers and wanted them in her hair.  I don't know how she even knew what they were.  I know I've said it before, but she is so girly!  From the way she runs, to the way she stands, to the way she always wants to look "pretty".  She would not let me take them out and kept saying, "Curlers, pretty!  Wow!"  Then she would run to check herself out in the mirror.

 She even wanted to play her favorite hide and seek game sporting the curlers...hiding in the same spot she always hides in.

I finally got her to let me take them out before we had to run to the store, but the next morning it was the first thing she wanted me to do.  She climbed right up on dad's lap to read a book, eat her toast, and sport her curlers.  We love her little personality!