Wednesday night at swimming lessons, Annika did her leg kicks and arm scoops on her own! She knows how to kick her legs, she does it in the bathtub all the time, but would never do it at class. I would splash around with her so it was fun to see her doing it on her own. And she started doing her arm scoops! That was a real treat since I've only shown her how to do it a couple weeks now and on Wednesday I told her to do it, without showing her, and she did!

Last night we had dinner with Grandma Lona and Grandpa Dale. What a nice treat! Even nicer? The smoke free restaurant. I'm so glad some cities have smoking bans in their restaurants.

Tonight Kris and I are going on a date. This week has been National Engineer's Week (and none of you got me flowers - how rude! - Ha!) and my company is hosting a night out for us engineer's tonight. We get dinner, a program and a show. It should be a good time and it's always fun to see my co-workers and their spouses/significant others dressed up. We can be pretty casual here at work. Gramme is coming over to babysit until Annika goes to bed and then Uncle Mathias is going to relieve her. Gramme doesn't do late at night too well.

Annika keeps adding to her words. She can pretty much imitate most simple (2 syllables or less) words that we say now, including last night's addition of soup.