I found out today that my aunt and Godmother Denise has breast cancer. It sounds like they caught it early. She's going in for a lumpectomy on Tuesday and then we'll know for sure. I'm worried about her but Gramme (Denise's sister) said she seems in good spirits. Please, please pray for my aunt.

And now for some good news. Pam and Mark are the proud parents of a baby girl! Jeanne Kaylynn was born today, September 17th! Happy Birthday Jeanne! And Congratulations to Pam and Mark! They are going to be in the hospital until Tuesday. At first I said to myself "Oh good, I can go visit them tomorrow after work then!" Yeah, then I remembered that Kris and I both have sore throats. I have a slightly stuffy nose and Annika's nose is one big leaky faucet. We'll be staying far, far away from precious newborns. Instead, a phone call and maybe some flowers or a plant will have to do. Bummer!

I need to start calling Kris "Daddy" whenever Annika is around. She has started calling him Kris too! He's still Daddy most of the time but if she wants his attention (like if he's upstairs and she's down or something) then she'll yell out "Kris!" Hmm, I wonder where she got that from? :)

Yesterday was Annika's second gymnastics class. This time I went to class with her while Kris watched through the glass. Annika, again, had a great time. She did pretty well with listening to the coach and following the instructions too. And she'll do a somersault but she's not all that enthused about it. She'd rather jump, jump, jump, jump up, jump off, jump over, jump, jump, jump. Towards the end of the class we were waiting to get on the trampolines. We had to wait for another class to vacate them first. Annika kept asking for the trampolines. We finally had our turn and then the last activity we were going to do was jump and play in the foam block pit. Annika DID NOT want to leave the trampolines and threw a FIT. I finally just picked her up and walked over to the foam block pit. She refused to get in and play. The coach is very good with children though (she has 3, the youngest being 3) and started throwing blocks to her up on the side and asking Annika to throw them back in at her. That loosened Annika back up and pretty soon she was jumping off the side into the coach's arms. And when it was over, Annika was exhausted and didn't put up a fight to stay. She got her stamp on her hand, put on her sweatsuit and shoes and off we went.

We visited Grandpa Dan and Marcia yesterday afternoon. And guess what Grandpa Dan has? A trampoline! Yes, there was lots of time spent on the trampoline yesterday. At one point Kris and I had to convince Annika to get off it so that we could head into town to the town festival. As soon as we got back after the festival though she was asking if she could go jump some more. She and Grandpa spent a long time out there. Her white socks were BLACK by the time she came back in. She had so much fun! We headed home not long after that. Annika didn't have a nap all day and I was pretty tired myself. Annika slept during the short car ride home and then was up playing until bed time. Me? I took a 2 hour nap when we got home! Ha!

Today Annika and I went shopping and guess what we got? A ladybug costume for Annika! She's going to be so cute! Now I have to get a black long sleeved shirt and some black tights and she'll be all set. I also got her a felt pumpkin basket too for all her loot. OK, so we'll probably only go to a couple houses this year but it's going to be fun anyway!