Woohoo!

I've been sick forever and a day, and I still have a stuffy nose, but I'm alive. I did laundry, and dishes, and vacuumed and fed my baby (I've been doing this the whole time) and I'm going to Costco! I am feeling better and its like a forgot I was ever healthy and now its like this big miracle! Of course, Saturday, Annika had mucus-y gunk coming out of her eye, so we've got her pink-eye medicine. That stuff works incredibly fast. Provided, of course, that you can accurately get her eye.
Anyway, we're going to Utah on Wednesday and I was really dreading the "traveling while sick" aspect, but now I'm really excited. We have anxious grandparents and aunts and uncles awaiting Annika, and I'm sure they'll be happy to see John and me as well. I feel like I should teaching her a bunch of new tricks to show off, but then she shows me that she's been teaching herself new tricks. Like dancing. She never showed any interest in dancing before, despite John and my cool dance parties in the kitchen. Instead, we got a new, fancy toy (garage sale) that sings and says the alphabet and has 6 or 7 different songs and all different percussion beats. She dances her little booty away when that plays! She currently dances a little more like John than me.
She is also beginning to say things! Kind of! If we say please, she says, "ease". Kind of. She can say hi and she can say "oggie". Kind of. (doggie.) She can say no. And shake her head. And throw food on the floor while doing both.
She won't stay on her changing table anymore, so we've got a new and brilliant method. We change her downstairs, in front of the tv. Sad, but its the only thing that works. Hopefully, we'll be able to potty train her without a t.v. in the bathroom.
Now, I'm off to my triumphant visit to Costco for glamorous items like toilet paper, detergent and diapers! (When John reminded me on the phone, from work, that we needed "tp", I couldn't hear him because he was whispering! Heaven forbid his co-workers discover such habits!)