Annika is teething. Last weekend one of her front teeth broke through. Sunday, I noticed her other front tooth was poking out. She has one eye tooth already and her other one is just about out. I'm really hoping last night's sleeping fiasco was directly related to all this teething activity or somebody is in big trouble. Annika went to bed fairly easily at 8pm. She woke at 11pm and wanted to nurse. She was restless between 11pm and midnight. Kris came to bed at midnight after hearing Annika crying and seeing Daddy wokr her right up. She then proceeded to stay up until sometime after 4am. Yes, she was up for 4 hours. Kris and I took turns sleeping during that time. Annika wasn't crabby or crying during that time. I think she wanted to get up and play. The only time she'd get mad was when I would lay her back down and she wanted up. Kris said she slept in until 9:30am this morning but that she's been a crab all day. Please let it be teeth so when that 4th top tooth comes in my sweet baby comes back!

We stayed at Grandpa Dan's house this weekend. Saturday night we all had dinner together. Annika ate a bunch and then decided she was done. And she wanted a drink. Of milk. From her mom. So she proceeded to grab me, my shirt, my hair etc. trying to get some milk. It was pretty funny actually. Annika and I excused ourself so she could nurse in private. She's never done that before either.

Annika is learning how to go down the stairs. She can do it both on her butt and on her tummy. Sometimes though, she wants to be a big person and tries to go down standing up while holding on to the railing. Unfortunately, she's not quite tall enough to step down and hold onto the railing at the same time and then she falls. Of course, someone is always right there to help her and we keep trying to get her to sit down. She is a strong willed one.

Kris worked on the master bath shower this weekend. It's looking really nice! He didn't finish tiling and will have to work on it more next weekend. I'm sure the 95 degree weather this weekend didn't have anything to do with that.

Our closing date on the new house has been pushed to August 22nd. They still plan on having all the work done on August 5th but need the extra two weeks to do any clean up work resulting from the inspections and our walk-throughs. Plus, our job foreman is going to be on vacation one of those weeks and they don't do closings on his houses when he's not there. We're bummed about being houseless another 2 weeks but there's not much we can do about it. Plus, we don't want to move in until everything is perfect. I'm just glad we'll be in before Annika's first birthday. I wanted to have a small party for her and it looks like I still can. Anyone want to come help me unpack?! :)