I had a whole list of things I wanted to tell you about and now I can't find it. I'm going to have to wing this and hope I remember the good stuff! This past weekend was football, football, football for us. We made it to the Augsburg Homecoming game. Because it was homecoming they had a picnic before with games for the kids including a bounce house. Annika was pretty restless during the game. I didn't blame her. The bleachers were packed due to it being Homecoming and the sun was beating down on us making it pretty warm. We didn't have a seat for Annika so she just went back and forth across laps. At half time I took her back out for a walk and she ended up spending all of half time and most of the third quarter in the bounc house. That girl could jump all day long! The rest of the second half went much better. She was able to stand in the aisle and cheer along with the cheerleaders. She was very into the cheerleaders and the mascot. After the game they had a school block party which was more like a football reunion for Kris. He enjoyed talking with a bunch of ex-players and coaches. When we got home that night it was, of course, time for more football. We watched the Michigan-Gopher game on ESPN that night. It's too bad both of our teams lost Saturday.

Saturday night during the Gophers game something happened and Kris exclaimed "Darn it!" I looked at him (thinking thank goodness he didn't say something worse) and then Annika looked at him and shouted back "Darn it!" We started laughing of course and then Kris said "Uffda!" Instead of shouting "Uffda" back at Kris though, she yelled "Zoinks!" Where does she get this stuff? Hilarious. That's what it was.

Sunday after church we headed down to visit Nana, Papa and Uncle Dusty at the farm. Annika had a great time playing with the dogs and the stuffed, talking animals at their house. Annika was even able to go outside and help Papa with the horse chores. She even got to "ride" on Rudy while he drank a bunch of water. And of course there was more football. We had to watch the Vikings game and true to Saturday, our team lost. A bit of a bummer that all three teams lost! However, the Twins made up for it by winning the AL Central division.

Speaking of animated stuffed animals (hey - I just was in the paragraph above - keep up!), have you seen the new TMX Elmo? It's the 10th anniversary Elmo and Amy has a great post about it at The Daily Dose. Go check it out! You can see it in action and everything thanks to someone who recorded it and put it on YouTube. Yeah, I don't think I want one of those in my house. I'm sure Annika would love it though seeing as how she loves the animated stuffed animals at Nana and Papa's house.

Last night Annika and I were running around delivering a whole slew of Pampered Chef products to people. One of our stops was to Pam and Mark's house where we got to visit with Baby Jeanne for a little while. She is so tiny! She's tinier than Annika ever was! I know that's not hard as most newborns are smaller than Annika. She's a cutie too as, of course, all babies are. And Annika was pretty impressed with little Jeanne too. She was also impressed by all the dogs and cats though too. Once again, she wasn't jealous in the slightest that I was holding another baby. She didn't try to climb in my lap and was content to stand by me or sit next to me on the couch. Whew! I'm waiting for all that to change though when the baby stays at our house and never leaves!

Saturday after gymnastics, Kris, Annika and I are going to a local pumpkin patch with our neighbors Andrew and Katie. The place I found has hayrides and face painting and pick your own pumpkins. It sounds pretty nice. I'm hoping, of course, to get some cute pictures of Annika out there.

Baby boy (who is still nameless) has been kicking up a storm lately. Preparations have started for him too. The big list of things to do has been compiled and some of the tasks are even being worked! I know! I'm hoping to go crib bedding shopping this weekend because you know we can't paint the nursery until we know what the bedding is going to look like! There are still so many things to do but I've got a plan and I've told Kris about it and I think he's on board. Now if we can just get it all done by the middle of December, I'll be happy.

Oh, there was so much more I wanted to tell you and now I can't think of a thing!