Annika crawled last night! She figured out that both hands move and she crawled! I was so excited that I cried. Yes, I'm a big baby. OK, I'll set the stage for you. Annika, Kris and I were in the bedroom cleaning up from painting it this weekend. Kris moved all the furniture back into place and were taking the tape down and generally picking up. Kris ran downstairs to do something and I sat on the bed to rest for a moment. Annika was sitting on the floor playing with toys but saw my foot hanging off the side of the bed. She, being the weird little girl that she is, really likes toes. So, she set off to come after my toes. She got up on her hands and knees, like she always does, except this time, she slowly moved both knees and then both hands and then got the hang of it and crawled a couple steps. I yelled for Kris to come back up, which, of course, broke Annika's concentration so she started playing with her toys again. When Kris came up, I told him what happened. He sat on the bed and Mara (the dog) sat by Kris. Well, Annika absolutely loves the dog, so she got back up on her hands and knees and crawled over to the dog! I was so excited that I picked her up and moved her back, just so I could see her do it again. That made her angry and after she fussed for a second, she got back down and crawled back over to the dog. Mean mommie that I am, then I called the dog over to me and made Annika crawl over to me and dog again. I finally stopped picking on her and just let her love on the dog.

She crawled!