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) :)

On the Move

Apparently, I'm in for it. Frannie is at 6 1/2 months and she just pulled herself up to standing from sitting on the floor. Crawling? No thank you. This girl wants to walk. She's close to pulling herself to sitting from laying down too. Although, if she's laying her new favorite thing to so is roll over multiple times or get to her belly and then do a downward dog kind of yoga move (she's hoping to stand up) and then lay like she's going to crawl...and she does- she just goes backward.

She met her Aunt Beth and Uncle Glenn this weekend and had them wrapped around her finger at first sight. However both they and my mom made multiple comments referring to how I'm "going to have my hands full" and "you are in for it" delivered in a gleeful tone and accompanied with giggles. These comments came due to Frannie's need to move and near constant busy-ness. 

Here are some pics showing how Frannie keeps so busy ...... 

Strong

Our nanny told me the other day that in 3 years of working in the infant room at a infant-5 year old school, Frannie is one of the strongest kids she's seen. Everyone has commented on how strong she is but that really solidified it for me. 

I was also told by a woman standing in line at a store that Frannie was clearly an extrovert, and would have lots to say as she got older.

I'd agree with both of these assessments. Frannie is a strong, beautiful, smiley, smart, and outgoing baby. In fact, recently more than one person has commented that she's the happiest baby they've seen. How did I get so lucky? 

Here are some new pics. She's thinking she'd like to skip crawling and move straight to walking. Her teeth HAVE to be coming soon because she is teething like crazy. She's eating real food 2-3 times a day and is getting the hang of a sippy cup. At her 6 month appointment, she only gained 6 ounces and grew 1/2 an inch but her head stayed in the 96th percentile. She must have a crazy metabolism cause she eats quite a bit but still stays skinny. Definitely like her dad on that one.