According to sitemeter, This site has had 13,969 page views since it's inception in December of 2003. And it averages 17 hits a day. That's pretty low level in the game of blogging (think Dooce for a second). However, the day I hit 10,000 page views was pretty exciting. It's fun for me to think that somebody might want to see what I've written or to hear my little stories about Annika. The map I've posted shows the last 100 people to log on to the site. There are people in Alabama, San Jose, Michigan, etc. that come to this site. I don't know anybody in those locations! I have not worked any more on trying to add comments to this site. I know I can do it with blogger, I just have to figure out where in my template code I need to put it. However, if anyone would like to e-mail me and introduce themselves, I would love it! E-mail me at nina_at_ninabina.com.

Last night Annika added a bunch more words to her repetoire. She was bouncing around the house like usual when I get home from work. She is one happy little monkey to see her mama. Instead of just squealing and laughing while jumping around though, last night she was yelling "Up and Down" while jumping. She also pointed out and said "monkey". At one point, she was sitting at her little picnic table reading books and pointing out objects and correctly identifying them (book, hippo, kitty, etc.). I grabbed the video camera and started to record. Of course as soon as I started recording, Annika decided to stand up and grunt and groan while filling her pants. Lovely. So glad I got that on camera. After putting the camera away, I took Annika's hand and lead her upstairs saying we had to change her diaper. I told her there were poopies in her diaper so we needed to changer her and she proceeded to say "poopies" throughout the entire diaper change.

We have a pretty relaxing weekend coming up. Tomorrow morning Kris and I are running a 5K with Amanda and Dean while Pam and Annika cheer us on from the sidelines. Tomorrow night Uncle Dusty and Auntie Kim are coming over for dinner and Annika playt ime. Sunday we have no plans except for church and laundry. Exciting, yes? I love our family down time together.