Cabbage Patch Doll

Lately Annika has become a lot better at using her hands, the other day I was cleaning the house and I sat Annika up to just play with some of her toys, and Brian came in and told me I needed to look at Annika. I walked into the room and this is what Annika was doing. She sat and played with the hair on her doll for about 20 minutes. It is so fun to watch her play with this little doll. Although it makes me feel like she is growing up so fast. It is fun to watch every stage just becomes more fun. She is doing so much now, sitting up, and becoming a lot more interactive. She is starting to understand the game of peek-a-boo, and she laughs when you tickle her. It is so much fun! On a totally separate note, we went and got family pictures taken the other day, okay it was before mothers day, but I was just looking at them, admiring how cute I thought they were so I figured I would put one on here for everyone to look at! My husband and daughter are pretty good looking!

More Peas Please!

Well Annika has become a great little eater. About a week and a half ago we gave Annika some Sweet Potatoes with her rice cereal, and she loved them. In fact the other night she ate a whole can of them. It is great. Then yesterday we gave her some peas to try. It is funny to watch because at first she pulls a lot of funny faces, which make me laugh, but then she just starts eating them up. I just love watching her figure it out. What a good little eater we have!

New Wheels!

Well so we finally bought a new car. Wahoo! It is not new, but it is new to us, so it is fun. My condition for buying a new car, was I wanted Air Conditioning for this summer. Both of our other cars have broken air conditioners. I have to tell you the other day we were driving and we turned on the air conditioner, and I actually got cold in a car, in the summer. That is a really nice change from sweating! But I did not want Annika to have to ride around in a hot car during the summer, so the new car is nice. We really like driving it. Just thought I would let you all see it! If any of you or anyone you know is looking for a nice, reliable, sweet spirited 1993 sable, let us know, we will get you a steal of a deal!

Look what dad taught me....

So Annika discovered her feet a couple of weeks ago, which is a lot of fun to watch. Since she has been playing with her feet Brian has been trying to get her to suck on her toes. He has been pushing her feet up to her mouth and she really will suck on them. She has never on her own just started sucking on her feet, until the other night, I was holding her and I looked down and this is what I saw.....
Not only was this just one toe in her mouth it was pretty much all of her toes in her mouth. Goodness, I can't imagine that it would taste very good, but at the same time, it was so funny to see her doing it. I could not help but laugh. Really deep down inside don't we all wish we were flexible enough to stick our toes in our mouths?

This weekend

Well I haven't blogged in forever, so I decided to put in a little update of our weekend. This weekend, we went down to south Jordan on Friday night, and stayed with Brian's family. It was a lot of fun. On Saturday morning, Brian's mom, Brian, Annika and I all went shopping, which was so much fun! We went to Hobby Lobby, (which is a wonderful store) and then we went to target. I swear every time I am anywhere close to a target I just want to go. Because I think that it is a great store, and I just can't figure out why Logan doesn't have one yet! Well At target, we bought Annika a booster seat for her to sit in while she is eating her Rice Cereal. She has become such a good eater, she get so excited when she see's the spoon. It is a lot of fun! After we left Brian's parents we went to hang out with one of Brian's high school friends. Brandon and Whitney and their son T.J. he is so cute, he is almost 2 and he is so crazy. He was running all over the place. Lots of fun, I am sure Annika will be there one day. On Sunday I got a new calling... Ward Enrichment Leader, I have been on the committee forever, I kept thinking that I am out of ideas but I guess that they think I have plenty more in me... I guess we will just see how that goes. we also had my whole family over for dinner. Alli graduated from CEU on Saturday, Way to go Alli, now she just needs to pass her state boards and she can cut hair professionally. Having my family over to our house for dinner is something that we have never ever done, and we have been married for 2 years so I figured it was about time. They invite us out there every Sunday so it was about time that we returned the favor. It was fun, we ate and then we played games. It was such a nice afternoon, we opened the windows and propped the door open and just enjoyed the nice day. I love that it is actually starting to feel like spring, and Annika loves being outside which is a lot of fun.