Pears are lip-smacking, clap my hands together good.

How do I know this? Because this morning, while feeding Annika pears for breakfast, she would smack her lips together after each bite. Then she started clapping and smiling. My girl likes her pears, yes she does.

On Monday, when Annika was chasing the cat, she showed us again that she is one smart little girl. The rest of us were sitting around the table on the deck. Annika was on one side of the table between Daddy and Uncle Mathias. The cat was on the other between myself and Auntie Krystle. Annika wanted to get to the cat so she crawled under the table. The table legs join together under the table only 8-12 inches above the ground. Annika shimmied her way under the legs to get to the other side to get the cat. She succeeded too. We were all amazed and clapped and cheered her on. She thinks we're nuts. :)

And then Annika shows us that she is still just an innocent little baby.

My baby girl likes to eat paper products.

She loves paper napkins and toilet paper she can pull off the roll. We have to constantly watch her when she's in the bathroom with us because she will eventually make her way over to the roll and start tearing paper off to chew on. Weird, weird little girl. Paper products?

And then of course, she is a sweet little girl too. She has starting doing this head-tilt thing that is just the cutest ever. When she wants to show someone that she is cute or smile at them, she'll cock her head to one side and give a serious yet pouty look. When the person smiles at her, then she breaks out into a big grin. If she's in her high chair or sitting at a table, she'll actually cock her head so far to the side that it's laying on the tray/table. She'll also do this while sitting playing or standing and then she almost falls over because she's got her head tilted so far that she loses her balance. She is such a funny little girl.

My precious is what she is.