Goodness... where has time gone?? My last post was shortly after my surgery (which was VERY successful...yay me!!), so I guess I'm due to post an update on what's going on around the Heidinger household!

Things have gotten INCREDIBLY busy over the past 5 1/2 weeks. I've gone back to work, and am treading water feverishly trying to keep things a float. Adrian has been great at picking up the pieces, getting Anika on and off the bus, getting dinner started or made, and doing laundry when we desperately need some clean undies ;) Sophia and I leave the house in the morning around 7:10 and don't get home most days until 5:40. Tuesday and Thursdays, we get home around 7pm (when Anika is done gymnastics). She has FINALLY gotten used to being at Angie's (one of my bestest girlfriends) and have been getting reports of Sophia and Jackson (Angie's son who is 6 months older) actually playing, giggling and even hugging and kissing each other! 'Fia and Jack are going to grow old together.... :D

Sophia had a great time on Halloween. She loved going up to the door with the big kids. It was a beautiful night to go out in her stoller with her Daddy.

Anika is on the verge of losing her 3rd tooth - her first top one. Its hanging on by a thread, and the one next to it is very wiggly too... she just might be singing "all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!!).... LOL School is going pretty good. She's having a bit of a hard time with some of her letters and numbers but with a little work she's coming along just fine. Gymnastics is going real well. She can do a pullover by herself (if she concentrates), and is working on a back bend from standing. Her cartwheels are beautiful, and I think she is all the way down in her side splitz. She has a mini-competition on December 18th. They will be evaluating her skills and I've heard that they have moved some of the girls from Junior Panthers I to Junior Panthers II depending on how well they are doing. I'm very proud of her and love watching her at the gym and at home practicing her skills.

Sophia is a busy little girl. She loves to chase after her sister, and has become quite the girlie girl with her babies she got for her birthday. She loves to hug them, kiss them, and dance with them if there is music on. She also likes to comb their hair (if she can find a dolly with hair that is) LOL. She also loves her Little People and loves to put the animals in their proper place in the zoo. She puts the little people in their cars and makes car sounds as she drives the car around the livingroom carpet. She now says "DADDY" and "MOMMY" all the time. She does the "MWAH" sound when she gives a kiss, and chatters a mile a minute. She has spent a few moments in the "naughty corner".... and one day I will try to get her on video because its the funniest thing. She gets soooo full of shame, hangs her head low. When SHE decides she's spent enough time there she will come over muttering something, and give a big hug. I often wonder if that is her apologizing for being naughty. She loves to feed the dogs... either from her highchair or while on the floor from her snack container... its like being at the zoo feeding the lions....

Here are a few pictures from mid-October through to this week (oldest to most recent). Click on them to enlarge.... Enjoy!