Annika got to see Lucy and Elise for the first time on the day they were born, but only from a distance. Later, when the girls moved into a room where the healthier babies stay we felt comfortable letting her get a little bit closer, but we still made her keep her distance. Yesterday we...
Category Archives: Annika
Here’s Looking at You, Kid . . .
I was a little worried that me being on bedrest would mean Annika would get neglected. It turns out the opposite is true. I can’t be up cleaning, cooking, or doing laundry, so we lay on the couch or in her bed and read books, or she plays with her toys on the floor while...
“Get out…No Slide!”
I’ve felt bad keeping Annika inside all week with so much snow. I haven’t really been off of the couch or the daybed, so I was excited to let Anni go out and play in the snow with Brad today. Unfortunately, when he took her across the street, she just stood and one place...
“I did it!”
. . . is one of Annika’s new favorite phrases. She is becoming more and more independent all the time. She likes to pick out her own clothes (which means that she wears her ballerina skirt or “princess dress” almost everyday) and will spend a long time trying to dress and undress herself, mostly unsuccessfully....
We Had a Very Merry Christmas
For the first time in our married lives, Brad and I enjoyed a Christmas at home together. Last year he was in Iraq, the year before that we went to Austria, and all the times before that we spent Christmas with our families. It was nice to come up with our own Christmas traditions, to...