Up and Running

Well, Annika may not be running but she is finally walking!  She has been mastering the bipedal skills for about 3 weeks now. She loves to come into the kitchen while we are cooking/working and go through the cupboards. The honey stick is a favorite chew toy for those sore gums. She has gotten one molar (the bottom left) and is working on at least one more. And all the while her huge front teeth are still coming in; we assume that they aren't done growing yet because the left top-center tooth is still longer than the right! :)

Annika is loving to read these days and will pick out the books she wants read. She can be quite forceful if you start reading a book she is not interested in. Sometimes Emma will read to her and sometimes Annika will let her. Those moments are precious.
Annika is not really talking yet. We think she might actually mean Daddy when she says dadda, dadda.  Babba, Babba could mean Emma or Mama. But Chloe or doggie is definitely panting noises. Elephant sounds are popular- Annika makes them when she sees elephants or hears us say elephant and she loves to hear us trumpet, too.  She can roar like a lion or tiger and says the most adorable "ow" for cats/kitties. When I ask her to get something like a toy she can and I just about fell over the other day when I asked her to sit so I could put on her boots (that she "asked" me to put on) and she sat.  Her asking consists of holding something and grunting "ahh, ahh, ahh." 
She can do some hand signs like milk, more, please and bread and candy/sweet. Yeah, it isn't good that she will sign candy but not thank you! :0
So that's the update on little A.