Heidi turns 4!

Another hard to believe birthday. My baby is 4 and thinks she is 13. She is a binky addict. And even for her it has become imbarassing to have a binky around "non family". She has resorted to hiding the binky by putting her blanket (silkie) over her face to cover her indescressions. In an effort to ween her, I told her that when she turns 4 she can no longer have the binky. So she came to me about 3 weeks ago and said she didn't want to have her birthday because she still wanted to have her binky. So I hid the binkys one by one, systematically, until they were gone a week before her birthday. She had a few forlorn bedtimes searching high and low for the binky, that I, of course, had no idea where to find :) She has been binky sober for 9 days now!

Her birthday consisted of a family party with Dan's fam 2 days before her actual birthday. We combined Reed's, Heidi's and Ruckus's partys into one for the family. Unfortunately for all of them they were just born too close together. And, being sick of family gatherings, we only planned one. On her actual birthday, she was sure to remind us throughout the day that it was her birthday and that she could do anything she wanted. Her little friend Paisley came over for a few hours and they played. I asked her what special thing she wanted to do for her birthday and she simply said "money, money, shop". So I took her shopping with her birthday money. Then she opened her presents when the kids got home from school. After that I didn't see her much because she was busy playing with new toys.