This kid is freaking sharp.

Tonight Chris and I were totally bowled over by something Anna did. As I new it wouldn't fit into tweets, and I wouldn't have time to write much about it, I asked Chris to write instead. Here it is:

After dinner and a little time in the backyard, Anna was happily babbling as she toddled around the kitchen. Leila had just been given her dinner, the ritual of which Anna keenly observed (though we didn't know just how keenly until later).

As Leila finished her food, Anna went over to Leila and began saying a word we couldn't at first interpret, but soon we realized she was imploring Leila to "Sit." She said it over and over again, each time with the exact inflection we would use to give a command to Leila.

This alone was amazing and we couldn't believe she had picked up on so much of the routine so quickly. What happened next would absolutely floor us.

When Leila refused to sit on command, Anna held out her hand, her palm facing Leila, and said, "Uh uh uh uh," much in the same way that we scold Leila when she has done something wrong (or in this case, refused to do something that she had been told to do). Again, her inflection was exactly as ours would be in that situation, making it all the more hysterical. She just stood there, hand out as if chiding a small child, with the only posture she could muster to demand respect from all of two feet off the ground.