Our "Angel" Anna

Let me describe our Anna to you. Anna is the self-appointed second mother in our house. She's extremely helpful - sometimes overly helpful. She is usually eager to clean up, and she reminds us that she needs to brush her teeth before bedtime. If William is doing something that he shouldn't, we can always count on Anna to let us know; we'll hear "Ooooh!" as she runs either to or from Will getting our attention. She's even been known to chew him out (in her gibberish) and spank his bum when she thinks he deserves it. I'll have to catch a video of that sometime. As annoying as it is to have to repeatedly say, "I've got it under control, Anna," it's pretty darn cute to watch.

However, there is another side to our girl. She has no fear. NO FEAR. She causes me mild heart attacks on numerous occasions, but she is undaunted by any height or foreign object. She will look at you while you tell her something and then turn and do the exact opposite. She will then look at you while doing that thing and give her "silly smile" - as if to say, "You wouldn't dare stop me. I'm so cute!" (That has never worked for her, I might add.)

This picture captures all of that. We typically move the monitor away from her crib during naptime so that she won't play with it. We forgot this time. Also, the pillow does not belong in her crib. She managed to pull that off of the chair close to her crib. How she fell asleep without losing her grip, I'll never know.


We love our Angel Anna, but we fear we're going to have our hands full with this Annamal.