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Thursday, September 13, 2007
 
Annika's party went very well last Saturday. We kept it simple by grilling brats and serving baked beans, chips and grilled corn on the cob. Hmm, yummy! Annika thought it was just great to have all those people there. She was especially goofy when opening her presents. Each time she would get clothing she would pick it up and drop it on the floor and ask for the next present. Someone needs to teach this child manners and graciousness! Oh, wait, that would be Kris and my job. Um, yeah, we'll get on that. Anyway, when she opened Auntie Krystle and Pierce's present she took out all the toys and left the clothes in the bag. I asked her what else was in there and she responded "Just clothes." I'm sure Auntie Krystle appreciated the sentiment. I appreciated the clothes though! Everything Annika got was absolutely wonderful. Funniest thing though? She got three art easels! One is a tabletop one that we're keeping for sure. I'm hoping to bring it with us places like vacation or visiting family since it folds up so nicely. Then she got a fancy Creative Spark easel. We got that one out on Sunday and set it up and Annika has played with it every day since. Her third easel has two sides to it, one being a whiteboard and one being a chalkboard. I'm so tempted to keep this one too (we have a gift receipt for it and don't for the Creative Spark easel) since it's so different from the Creative Spark easel. The only problem is the easels take up so much space and Kris already feels cramped from all the toys. Ugh. I want to keep them all! I would put one up in Annika's room and keep one down in the living room but both came with whiteboard markers that aren't washable. I just can't trust Annika yet with unwashable markers. The other day she colored her lips gray because she was putting on "lipstick." So, I'll keep thinking about it. I'm pretty sure it's staying though.

Saturday night we went to the Augsburg vs. Northwestern football game. It was the 10 year reunion for the MIAC-winning Auggie team that both Kris and Uncle Dusty played on. There was a dinner and program and tour of the new athletic building. Then, at half time all the players there were introduced on the field and they even got to wear a jersey with their old number on it! It was such a great evening. James was the perfect baby. He usually goes to bed around 7pm so I was worried how he'd do since the game didn't even start until 7pm. Well, shortly after the game started he got fidgety and grumpy so I stood up (out of the way of the people around me of course), wrapped him up in his blanket and bounced him for a few minutes. He was out cold. And he didn't wake again until some excitement late in the fourth quarter. And then when we put him in his car seat to go home, he went right back to sleep and didn't wake up again until 3am. He even slept through me carrying him into the house. Annika did pretty well too. It's hard for someone her age to sit still for three hours. Luckily we sat on the bottom couple rows so she could dance and jump around in the aisle in front of us. And she was pacified with a big bucket of popcorn for quite a while too.

This week has gone by pretty quickly. We haven't had anything to do in the evenings so there's been lots of playing going on. James has been eyeing our people food for a while now. And he's starting to not want to eat his baby food. James would rather eat finger foods or whatever we're eating instead. So, he's had some baked beans, some corn, some pasta, some bread and lots of other new things this week. And he's liked them all so far. He likes to chew and eat things with texture. That pureed baby food is for the birds apparently. He still doesn't like fruit though.

And Annika is starting to show some three year old tricks. She is starting to show defiance. Yesterday I told her to take her bandaged finger out of her mouth and I took it out and put it in her lap. While staring into my eyes she slowly lifted her finger back up and put it back into her mouth. What! Yeah, that got her an immediate time out in her room. I hauled her up there, put her in her room and told her not to come out until I came to get her. A few minutes later I went up to check on her (the crying had died down and it was too quiet in there) only to find her sleeping. It was 6:40pm, about an hour and a half before her bed time, but she was out cold. Yes, the naughtiness could have stemmed from being tired but that is not the first time she's done it. She's testing her limits now and boy, is it fun! (cue sarcasm) Thanks goodness she's such a good girl at heart or she'd get sold to the gypsies! Kris and I may need another date soon - she is wearing us out!

Oh, one last thing before I go - we are pacifier free in our house now! Annika had used hers at nap time and bedtime only for a long time now. James, on the other hand, could care less about pacifiers. So, about a week and a half ago when Annika asked for a pacifier at bedtime, I told her they were lost (they actually were to, I had no idea where any of the 3 we had were) and she'd have to go to sleep without one. And she hasn't had one since. She asked about them the next night or two but never made much fuss about not having one. I've been so worried about how to make her give those up and it turned out to be no big deal! OK, so I found two of them and hid them just in case but so far, so good!

Posted by Kristina at 9/13/2007 08:40:00 PM



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