The Quotable Annika

--"That doggy was WOOFING at us!" Outraged complaint when a dog, unseen on the other side of a fence in the neighborhood, started barking at us as we walked past.

--"Uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis!" Pointing at numbers in a book and counting in Spanish -- I'm not sure how high she can go, but I was impressed!

--"Is that a unicycle? ... Well, THAT'S new!" Observing the neighbor kid practicing in his driveway.

--"Does the baby catch food with his mouth?" A very thoughtful, wrinkled-forehead late-night question while taking a sip of water (to which I explained the umbilical cord).

--"Super Mr. Superhero!" What she was playing, dancing around in her hoodie towel after a bath.

--Me: "So he was all fired up to do [something-or-other] --"

--Annika, very seriously: "He was covered with fire??"

--"I can't go past the bug zapper -- it will app me!" Refusing to walk past the bug zapper in our backyard, and revealing that she thinks the two words are "bugs" and "apper."