Annie these days

Praise the Lord for a happy, healthy little one... she has plenty of energy and her skin is so smooth and perfect. Here she is holding a little camera I made her to match my Pentax. I made it out of cardboard and masking tape.





Oh, she is growing so! Her favorite things these days are holding kittens, (and all animals for that matter, though kittens are #1,) dolls and strollers, playing with balls of any size, working with mama, her blanket, going to friend's houses, wearing pretty dresses ("girls dresses"), dancing to Papa's guitar music, drawing and painting, learning Chinese, reading books, etc. She also has a interest in ouchies... if there is a page in a story where someone gets and ouchie, she always wants to go back to that page. Sometimes she's asked for a band-aid with a bit of a grin because she knows she didn't really need one.

She's still shy around new people at first for a little bit, but warms up quickly. She still gives her pouty face sometimes, tilting her head and sticking out her lower lip when strangers say hello. Then we'll say, "Annie, where's your happy face?" And immediately she'll produce a huge smile. Unfortunately, that made it sort of a game when we really just wanted her to smile in the first place. But overall she's cheerful and obedient and full of giggles and tenderness and love. (She showed a little girl a rock she had in her hand and said, "Be gentle...be gentle" while petting it like it was some creature, because the other day Joel found a little toad and let Annie hold it and said the same thing to her.)