Annika and I had another busy day today. After church this morning (where Annika charmed the family sitting behind us) we headed home for a couple hours of downtime. Annika was crabby this morning so I was very thankful when she took an early nap. I had to wake her up though so we could leave for our second activity of the day. We went and say the Macy's 8th floor presentation of Mary Poppins with Nana and Great Nana. I've only been to the 8th floor one other time that I can remember so it was fun for me too to see the exhibit. Annika was enchanted by all the different scenes and even tried to climb up into a few of them to join the puppets in the fun. I have a couple pictures that I'll try to share soon. Did you notice that I uploaded a bunch of pictures last week? They're in the Annika #14 album. Anyway, after the exhibit we shopped a bit, looking at the seasonal displays on the 5th floor and wandered through the marketplace on the lower level. Too bad I'm on a budget because there was some adorable things there.

After that outing we headed home to help Daddy prepare dinner. Well, Daddy prepared dinner, Annika played with toys and I cleaned up the kitchen and dining room a little bit. Grandpa and Marcia were coming over for dinner so the house had to be at least a little bit respectable. They were coming over to see Annika's new bedroom now that it's all decorated. It was nice to spend a quiet evening at home with them. And it was nice to treat them to dinner for once. Usually it us at their house with them feeding us each time. Grandpa spent a bunch of time with Annika in her room reading books to her. She kept dragging him up there throughout the evening. I'm sure he didn't mind too much. And I was able to quiz him on what male family names we have. You see, Kris and I are having an awful time trying to come up with a name for Baby Boy. Kris still has a name that he likes that I've vetoed. And we still have that one name that we both like but we don't like how it sounds with our last name. Our biggest problem though is that I like traditional names (think Daniel and Andrew) while Kris likes uncommon names. Annika was a good compromise for us because it's a traditional name (at least in Scandinavia which Kris is 100%) but it's also fairly uncommon. It's social security ranking the year prior to Annika's birth was in the mid 400's. So, here is my plea to all of you - please leave me a comment with any suggestions you have. Think traditional yet uncommon. Please - I'm 31 weeks pregnant today and we have zero contenders right now.