Annika has definitely found her hands. For the past few days (week maybe?) she has constantly been putting her hands in her mouth. She's not hungry and doesn't want her pacifier, she just wants her hands. Explore away girl! Last night though, she just wanted her thumb - of her right hand. She was sucking on that thing hard. Again, she wasn't hungry and didn't want her pacifier, she just wanted her right thumb. She was just adorable with her little itty bitty thumb in her mouth and the rest of her hand right smack dab in the middle of her face. :)

Annika seems to be changing her routine a little bit which is good for me but not so good for Dad. She seems to want to go to bed around 8:30-9pm now and get up around 7am. This means I can go to sleep when she does and I'm not losing too much sleep with having to get up so much earlier for work. Kris, however, gets home late from work and now has to get up earlier with Annika. Silly girl.

I'm so happy today is Friday. I get to spend two whole days now with my family - at the same time! I get Kris and Annika all to myself for the whole weekend. OK, so I have to share for a bit on Saturday with the Vixen (maybe) and some on Sunday with Mary and Amanda at brunch and Kris's family and friends at dinner. But otherwise, they are mine! I plan on sleeping in, doing some Christmas shopping and hanging out at home together. Oh, if I could only be independently wealthy so we could do this every day! That would be pure bliss. Anyone want to finance my wildest dream? :)