Heather and Ava

Heather wasn't quite sure what to think about Ava when she was first born. Now she thinks she is pretty cute. :)

Heather and the Baby

Beckisue's anatomy class had an assignment to make a model of an organ. Beckisue and her study partner decided to make a uterus. While they were working on that I decided to make a model of a baby to go in it. Beckisue showed me in the book a bunch of pictures of babies at different stages. I chose 56+1 days. It turned out pretty well considering my total lack of artistic ability.
Anyway, to get to the point of the story. When I showed it to my 15 1/2 month old niece she was totally fascinated by it. She started saying "Baby, baby." It was so sweet. She wanted to hold it but I told her to just touch it so she sat there and petted it for the longest time. When she stopped looking at it for a minute I decided to put it back in the box but when she turned around she immediately wanted to see it again. The rest of the evening she wanted to have that little baby. At one point when I walked into Grandma and Grandpa's living room and she saw that I didn't have the baby in my hands, she held her hands in the air as if to say "What did you do with the baby!" So, of course, I took her back into our living room to hold it again. At one point she leaned over and kissed the head of the baby. It was about the sweetest thing I have ever seen. I guess she knows from experience that kissing is what you do to babies!

Our Joy (Heather Joy That Is)

Mom had to go to Indianapolis today. Of course, none of us can go down there with out making a stop, either going or coming, at Dale and Michelle's so we can see the baby. Well, when mom stopped she decided to just kidnap Heather and make her parents come get her! (well, it was something like that) Dale and Michelle were going to come up tomorrow anyway so they just decided they would go ahead and come up tonight. We always have so much fun with her! She kept us all laughing tonight (like that is unusual).
We were all in the living room and all of a sudden she started in on a new trick. She held her fists out and tightened all her muscles so tight that she started shaking! It was SOOO funny. They she started walking across the room but she wasn't bending her knees so it was kind of like a stomp. She kept it up for quite a while!
A little while after that she decided she wanted to wear my snow boots. Monica put them on her and they almost covered her whole legs. Monica had to hold onto her arms so she wouldn't fall but she loved to walk with them on! She kept walking back and forth from the kitchen door to the living room.
She truly is a joy to our family.