Pom Pom Park

I love the age Annika is at right now for several reasons! One reason is she's starting to play with her toys for longer periods of time. Not just get a toy out, make a big mess of it and move on to the next one. It comes in handy while I'm doing hair. She doesn't stand at my feet and scream at me to hold her now. I'm loving our house because while I have a hair appointment she can play in the toy room right next to it. She'll get one of her toys to show whoever is getting their hair done. She'll go back and forth, back and forth showing them all her things. It's so cute. Today she played with these princesses for quite a while.

The second someone is done with their haircut, Annika yells, "Addys." Meaning, "Annika's turn!" If I cut her hair every time she wanted me to, she'd have no hair left! In fact, after today's hair appointment left, I walked out of my "salon" came back just a few seconds later to find Annika in the chair with my shears held up to her bangs. She was this close to taking a wack out of them. YIKES! Somehow in the few seconds I was gone she had gotten my shears out of their case and ready to cut! It's all a matter of time...I know it'll happen one of these days.

Annika has an amazing memory. Last night before she went to bed she told me she wanted to go to the pom pom park to see the geese. She's getting very good at talking and telling me things I can understand. It's quite nice. If I "get it right", she nods her head. She calls it the pom pom park because she lost one of the pom poms that are on her boots there. First thing when she woke up this morning, she said, "pom pom park." I tried to fit it in before getting Nolan from school and we ran out of time, then the weather got bad...oh well. We'll try another day.