Impatient Anika

Our dear friend, Dana Clark, came over last night. She is heading home to Pennsylvania for Christmas break and so we exchanged some gifts. Anika was (needless to say) very excited about the prospect of opening presents. She was excited about giving a gift to Dana but she was beside herself with the idea of opening one herself. We told her that she would have to wait until after dinner (and clean up). While we were cleaning up she was "helping" by putting the gifts under the tree. After a few quiet moments, she comes rushing in the kitchen holding her new cash register. Somehow she picked her own gift out and opened it up. We're going to have to work on patience:-) I made her cover it again and wait for the rest of us. She is so excited about this toy "worker" as she calls it. She spent all last night telling her brother to "Stop pushing my buttons!!!!" Oh, that she could appreciate the double meaning:-)