Annika's favorite song lately is "Tick Tock". Here are the lyrics for those interested: "Tick Tock, Tick Tock, I'm a little Cuckoo Clock. Tick Tock, Tick Tock, Now the time is 1 o'clock." You can go up as high as you want - 2 o'clock, 5 o'clock, etc. We sing this song at swimming lessons to get the kids warmed up in the pool. After we say o'clock, we lift the kids out of the water over our heads and then splash them back in. They think it's great fun. We usually go up to 5 o'clock in swimming lessons and as the number goes higher, you correspondingly splash the kids that many times as well. Kris and Annika sing this song once in a while at ECFE class too. Sunday as I was putting some clothes away in our room, Annika was sitting on our bed. She started swaying back and forth and saying "tick tock, tick tock, mawamawahamama, tick, tock" etc. She was trying to sing the song herself! She couldn't make out the rest of the words after tick tock but she had the melody down! Kris said she was doing it all day yesterday too, just swaying and singing. Last night Annika and I went to the grocery store and when she would start to get grumpy I would start singing tick tock and she would sing along and the grumpiness would be gone. Granted, I was now singing in the grocery store but at least my kid wasn't screaming because she wanted out of the cart! So, tick and tock have been added to Annika's Big List of Words (up to 35 now!) and I think she's brilliant. Of course.