Halloween (early)

Saturday we had two events that encouraged wearing your Halloween costume - Boo at the Zoo and the Cooper Trick or Trot. The Trick or Trot is a run/walk fundraiser for my school so I pushed Frannie in her stroller and did the 1 mile walk with my friend Sarah. Boo at the Zoo is an event at the Lake Superior Zoo where kids can dress up and there are community vendors giving out candy throughout the zoo. 

It was a pretty cold day, in fact we saw our first snow flakes so we didn't stay either place very long, but it was fun to see Frannie in her costume and she got to see lots of people which is always fun for her. 

And a side note, she is a crawling machine now and pulls herself up on anything she gets a hold of. And those bottom two teeth are slowing coming in and I'm fairly sure the top two must be coming shortly. She's doing all the same stuff she did before the bottom two popped.

Crawling

No rest for the weary. Frannie is 7 months old and she's added crawling to her milestones. The girl never stops moving. If she's not crawling, she's rolling or grabbing on to stuff to pull herself up or trying to stand or standing while holding on to stuff. Amazing. 

Here are two pics I like to call angel and devil.

Pumpkins

It's fall, my favorite time of year. The color change, sweatshirts, and festing. Due to crappy weather, Frannie did not get to experience her first CranberryFest but we all made it to Bayfield for AppleFest. It was not ideal...misting, windy, and chilly...but we had a fun time at the pumpkin patch. Every year we go to the same place to pick out our pumpkins and this year it was even more fun cause Frannie was with us. She helped pick out our pumpkin family (4 pumpkins-one for each of us plus foxy of course), although we ended up with a tall skinny one, a round squat one, a small skinny one and a very flat one. I'll let you determine which pumpkins represented which of us. Some of us found this funnier than others..... I'll have to take a picture and post that later. Here are some good ones of Frannie tho....

It's Not a Race

I keep telling her it's not a race. You really don't need to walk before you are supposed to I say. Take your time. Crawl around. I get a resounding No (or Frannie's version of a No which is a pissy yell/screech). The girl can't sit still. She wants to stand all the time. Now I will say that she can sit for about 10-15 minutes and happily play which is awesome but the majority of the time she wants to be moving. She also likes to talk and is babbling a bunch now and laughing more. If you laugh, she'll laugh too, and her laugh is adorable. She loves eating real food and is quite good at drinking juice or water from her sippy cup with a straw. Much to my dismay she is also still drinking lots of formula mainly at night which means sleep hasn't been so great. It's truly unbelievable how much she's growing.

Teeth!

They have finally arrived.....or at least they are on their way. Frannie's two bottom teeth are coming in. You can feel the point of one of them when she chews on your finger. She hates when you mess with her mouth so it's nearly impossible to get a good look but they're there. When they are in far enough to get a glimpse, I'll post a pic (if she'll allow it) :)