Friday night, Annika started eating finger foods. Her first? Cheerios, of course. It was so cute to see her little stubby, chubby fingers try and grasp the Cheerios and get them into her mouth. Most of them made it, but of course, a lot of them ended up on the floor too. She thought it was great though. Once in a while she wouldn't gum them enough and she'd choke a little. A few pats on the back and she was fine. Saturday morning, when we gave them to her again, she did much better and by Saturday night, she was a Cheerio eating pro. Saturday night we tried giving her some pieces of cooked carrots. Kris would give them to her or put them in her mouth and she would spit them right back out!

Saturday, Annika and Daddy went shopping at the Mall of America with John and Michelle and the kids while Mommy had a Pampered Chef show. It was raining pretty hard all day but Daddy didn't want to be stuck in the house. I think they had a good time. Mommy had a good show ($130.00 for 4 hours work isn't bad!).

Yesterday, we went and visited our hole in the ground again. All the block work is done and they have the tar waterproofing stuff on as well. Next comes the basement plumbing and poured floors. They're moving pretty fast and should have it framed in a couple weeks time! This time I had a camera with batteries along so I took some pictures. I'll post those this week along with some more Annika pictures.

We also went to Babies 'R Us yesterday where I purchased Annika a swimming pool! It's one of those small 5 feet pools but it folds up really small. She'll love that this summer when she's home with Daddy.

Then, last night we had dinner with Grandma Lona and Grandpa Dale. Annika had her first taste of saltine crackers at dinner. She gummed those up pretty good too! Now we just need her to eat her veggies!