10 Months!

Getting so close to the big 1. Party planning has already begun for the big number 1. We want it to be so special and well special and awesome takes time. So I think its safe to safe that since she is 10 months old its time to get planning. Franki is just too funny. Her personality is really blossoming these days. She is a drama queen, I mean serious academy award winning drama here. She can also turn it on and off like you wouldnt believe. One second she is arch your back, throw yourself on the ground throwing a fit because you took something away from her and the next second she is giggling in your ear. I love seeing her personality shine. I also love seeing how quickly she can be distracted to other things (im guessing there is only another month or so of distraction before she can find what she wants when she wants it. She gets into everything now (i can imagine what it will be like when she is walking). She is a super fast crawler and can get out of sight and into just about everything. Her absolute favorite thing to crawl after is anything Hulk related, from hulk himself, to hulks food, water bowl, toys, etc. She is HULK obsessed, literally. She has always loved him, but in the past month she has really become drawn to everything he does. She pulls his ears, his tail, his skin, and she even growls back at him when he growls at her. One of her newest favorite games is to play tug of war with hulk (guess who wins everytime??)-Yep hulk. He pulls her down and she face plants and laughs hysterically. I mean any other time this girl falls even minor it usually elicits a small cry. When Hulk pulls her down she thinks it is hillarious. I mean he could do no wrong at this point. The funny part is that the feeling is not mutual. Poor Hulk is being a little bit tortured and he doesnt love it, he likes playing sometimes but other times the poor dogg gets tortured. She has also added a word if you can call it that to her list. Whenever we say wheres hulk, or hulk she yells HUUUUhh, HUUUUhhh. She knows exactly who we are talking about and searches the room for him. She is also not into baby food anymore. She wants whatever we are eating and that is it. She also prefers to feed herself a majority of the time. She recently has enjoyed maccaroni and cheese, guacamole, hummus, strawberries, watermelon, bluberries, bread with jam, corn on the cob. I would say most of all she still is a boob lady. She loves the momma's milk and she drinks more milk than a baby her age, but she enjoys it more than food on many occasions.  Im beggining to think weaning her may be harder than I though. At least I have a couple more months before that begins. We have been working on her taking a cup with her milk in it, but she doesnt quite want it yet, so each week we will try again. She takes water out of her straw cup all day long, but not milk she prefers it out of her bottle. She loves feeding herself and it really keeps her occupied to sit in her chair while we are eating or we are out to dinner. This has helped us be able to eat our own dinner all together. She loves giving kisses, she likes playing peek-a-boo, racing around the house crawling, she loves anything that makes noise or music. She loves looking at books and cimbing and crawling over and under just about anything. She is back to waking up overnight and not sleeping as well since her little virus last week, but we are working on getting that on track again, because this momma is pretty tired. I could literally watch her for hours, she keeps me and im pretty sure everyone around us very entertained!

Our memorial day weekend was filled with family and friends and again I feel so lucky to have all these wonderful people i our lives and to be able to make lots of new memories everyday. Franki went to her very first Cubs game. We had amazing seats. We didnt see a very good game (for the cubs anyway, Pittsburg had a great game hitting 4 homeruns!) So at least we got to see a lot of hits. Either way it was a blast. Franki enjoyed a ballpark pretzel and loved looking around at all the people and the noise that a ballpark offers. We spent both sunday and monday at BBQ's. Sunday rained out so we spent the day inside my mom's house, eating good food and being entertained watching Franki walk her dinosaur all around the house. It a nice time to celebrate mine and my aunt kathy's birthday! Our birthdays are one day apart so we sang and had cake. Oh yeah and I get the best present ever from my aunt and uncle. Wait for it... a garage door opener!!! Really I am so excited, I wont have to manually open the garage forever like I thought I would! Thanks so much to my Aunt and Uncle for your generous birthday gift, we will take extra good care of it! On monday it was beautiful and we spent the afternoon at our friends Catie and Kevin's house. They have a wonderful backyard and were great hosts! They cooked lunch out and we lounged on the pation and in the kiddie pool (no not emma and franki :), kevin and tyler enjoyed sitting with the lawn chairs in the pool).  Im really lucky to have such great friends back in my life. We love Catie and Kevin and there daughter Emma is as sweet as can be (even when Franki pulls her hair). Oh girls will be girls it starts early I guess :). They were also so nice and helped me celebrate my birthday with a wonderful cake and candles and a flower pot for out frotn porch. Our house is really turning into a home with all these awesome gifts. Great Memorial day weekend. Looking forward to more Sunny days ahead!