What a wonderful family weekend we had. We only left the house once on Saturday to run to Target and once yesterday to go to the grocery store. We even all three took a nap together yesterday afternoon. I got to be the lucky one cuddled in the middle. Bliss. Pure Bliss.

Annika took her first shower yesterday. She was having a "I want my mommy and only my mommy. Daddy go away." day. She was upset when I went to the basement to work out and there was no way I was going to sneak upstairs to take a shower alone. So Kris stripped her down and into the shower with me she went. I think she liked it. At the end, I moved the shower head so it was raining directly down on her upper back and shoulders. She just stood there and let it pound down on her.

In our hallway upstairs, we have two wedding pictures hanging on the wall. One is just of Kris and I and the other is of our wedding party. Each day we have to go over and Annika points to everybody while I say their name. Yesterday I asked her who each person was. She got Mommy and Daddy obviously but she also said "Dusty" for Uncle Dusty and "Thias" for Uncle Mathias! She kept calling Auntie Krystle Mommy though. Hmm. Close, baby girl, but not quite!

Last night Kris and Annika were reading Annika's Marcel the Pastry Chef book. Marcel is a Hippopotamus. Kris would ask her what Marcel was and Annika would say "hippo." Then Kris would sing a hippo song from ECFE class. During the first part of the song you slap your hands on your thighs. A while later, Annika had her Marcel book back out and was singing and slapping her hands on her legs. It's amazing to watch her connect concepts together like that. As we pulled up to a stoplight yesterday there was a dog in the car next to us and Annika starting "ruff'ing" in the back seat.