The nursing strike continues. Well, kind of. James woke up during the night and nursed just fine. Maybe he was too sleepy to realize what he was doing? Or maybe the motrin I gave him before bed time dulled the pain enough so he could nurse? Both? Either way, it was heaven. And then he went back to sleep instead of being wide awake for over two hours. It was a much better night. Today though when I got home from work he refused me again and tonight before bed was the same thing. So, I gave him a bottle and then pumped. It's working but it would be so much easier to just pop him on and not have to think twice about it. It's a good thing he shows me how much he loves me otherwise I would be really, really sad to not be nursing him instead of just really sad. For example, tonight when I got home from work, James was sleeping. When he woke up, he sat up, saw me and gave me the biggest grin. Kris put him in his walker and he motored on over to me and pouted until I picked him up. And then he wouldn't let me put him down. He just wanted to snuggle with his mommy. So we did and then I smothered him with kisses. Kris is always telling me to stop making out with the baby. Too bad I never listen. Heh.

As we were making dinner tonight, Kris was being silly. So I called him a silly billy. Annika thought that was pretty funny so she started calling him that. It was pretty fun to gang up with Annika to tease Daddy. She got the giggles too.

Tonight as Kris was going around giving us all kisses before leaving for work, he bent down to Annika and asked her to give him a kiss. Her response? "No, I'm good." What?! You're good? What a goofball. Kris told her it wasn't for her but for him so then she consented and gave him a big hug and kiss.

Today Annika went on her first school field trip. Her class and the Tues/Thurs morning class went to a local apple orchard. When I asked Annika about it she had to tell me that she rode on a bus and in a wagon and on a tractor today. It must have been fun. Kris said when he went to pick her up that she was walking with Ryan, the neighbor boy. He's in the Tues/Thurs class. I can just imagine it. Too cute! I didn't get too much more out of her. She was busy coloring at the time.

Tonight at bedtime I was putting Annika's pajamas on her. She's wearing some of her old 3T pajamas from last year and they are getting a little small in the sleeves. Her hands get stuck sometimes. Last winter they did the same thing (the hand openings are just really small) and I always told her to "get her pinkies out of there." I said the same thing a few nights ago and I thought Annika was going to bust a gut from laughing so hard. Ever since whenever we put her pajamas on at night and her hand gets stuck she starts giggling and telling her hand to "get her pinky out of there." She practically falls over she's laughing so hard. Now if anyone is a silly billy, it's her!