Yesterday Annika had her 18 month well baby check up. She is perfect according to the doctor. She has some dry skin on her arm so we need to be diligent about moisturizing her twice a day. Otherwise, everything checked out exactly as it should have. She is 22 pounds, 11 ounces which is the 27th percentile. She is 33 inches tall which is the 85th percentile and her head circumference is 46.8 cm which is the 55th percentile. She's still tall and skinny which you can tell by looking at her and comparing her with other kids her age, of course. Before we go back for her two year appointment we need to work on two things - drinking from a cup (no sippy cups) and no more pacifiers. Annika received her last baby immunization yesterday and doesn't need to have any more until kindergarten! Yay!

Last night was our last swimming lesson for this session. Kris was able to come and watch us and take some pictures. How can I scrapbook if I don't have pictures!?! Watching a swimming lesson isn't the most exciting thing ever but I was glad he could come anyway. I think Annika was too. She kept saying "Daddy" and pointing at him during our lesson.

Annika is up to 80 words that she can say. Or at least that we've written down. I have the list with me today. Here they are:

baby, sock, ball, mama, daddy, kitty, shoe, dog, pig, book, no, two, three, puppy, uh-oh, more, eyes, Mara (the dog), teeth, bye, hi, out, wait, wow, yeah, up, yes, soft, mine, good-bye, duck, tick, tock, cheese, chair, cookies, please, bird(ie), car, Bert, train, upsa-daisy, jump, shower, sheep, Ernie, naughty, boots, outside, button, hat, street (for Sesame Street), soup, meow, ruff, moo, knee, foot, ice, Dusty, Thias (for Mathias), hippo, fox, ouch, roar, where, go, Where Daddy go?, apple, turtle, flies (for butterfly), frog, zipper, boat, hot, hello, boobie (oops!), Bless you, Elmo, whoo-whoo (for owl noise)

I don't know how much longer we'll keep writing down her words. She's adding to these at a pretty good pace.