giving thanks

i am thankful for mommy
i am thankful for daddy
i am thankful for tj

i and thankful for chili

i am thankful for dry diapers
and i am thankful for milkies.........
oh ya, i am thankful for my sleep sack, a.k.a baby jail, a.k.a the straight jacket (i think this is on mommy's thankful list too)

a wonderful friend of mommy's (i haven't met her yet) got me these kickin' pants just becasue i was born.....thanks robyn!

cousin aiden sure does love sitting in uncle kyle's lap and readin' them books!

spending time with aunt megan....watching a little football (the game was a knuckle sucker!)

aunt havi came too (can i still call her my aunt if she's not really my aunt?) and i finally got a picture with her -took you long enough mom!

taking pictures of a crying baby may be funny to you....not so much to me

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!



really dad?

just because i lack the motor skills to take the hat off, does not give you the right to put it on me in the first place

top banana

i'll let you guess what I was for halloween

that's right....i was a banana.  not just any banana though, i was a TOP Banana!

dad thought it would be funny to put me in the fruit drawer from the refrigerator..clearly he was the only one amused

cousin nolan was buzz light year...we posed for pictures before we hit the pavement to score ourselves some treats!

now how's a girl supposed to rip into a fun size snickers bar with her hands all covered?

can I get some of that candy yet?

quick backtrack.....

I forgot to show you my signature photo

ya....you know i'm cute

I was only 10 days old and the gitfts from dad's friends at work were rolling in like mad.  so mom and dad got creative with the thank you note.  dad added things like "ball girl in training" or "future u.s. open champ" under the photo.  his friends were all drooling over it! (i think some people brought a gift just so they could get the note!)

finally

i got to meet grandpa john and uncle tommy!  they were only here for a day so we had a lot of catching up to do!  after lunch in Evanston (man that bar was loud) we headed out to coo coo's house for dinner (i had milkies but everyone else had prime rib).

i caught some zzzzzz's on grandpa john (his shoulder doesn't get tired like dadddy's does)

don't ask me where my pants went....when i get all full of milkies all bets are off! 

just chiilin'

almost the whole family (aunt ellen and cousin aiden were visiting aunt jenny, unlce nolan and cousin brody in tennessee)

i can't wait until mommy and daddy take me to florida so I can see kk, grandpa john and uncle tommy (and slip inot my suit and go for a swim)

the bath

2 weeks for the cord to fall off = 2 weeks of sitting in your own stink.....time for the bath.  at first I didn't quite understand why i suddenly had no clothes and no diaper on (don't these people know i cannot control when -or on whom- i pee?).  Mom and dad kept saying how I would love the bath (a tub and sponge in a sink-seriously?). 

my first reaction:

it's amazing what a warm wash cloth on a cold belly does for a girl's mood 

can i ask what you are doing with that water near my head?

did we not just establish wash cloth on belly = enjoyable bath experience?

a girl could get used ot this

just can't get away

from mom's camera.  she keeps saying she's just using me to learn more about her camera before she makes the jump into the real world of photography.  Seriously though......how long does a baby have to sit nakes under those really bright lights?  I got her back though........i peed on the black velvet!

 what's a girl gotta do to get a blanket around here?

I'm so over this already

are we done yet?

shortly after this shot, mom went to work on picking that skin off

if I don't make eye contct do you think she'll know it was my that peed the velvet?

Dear Francie Pants,

Not even when you can actually run, will you ever escape my camera, so get used to it.  You have the sweetest littel face and I intend on capturing every moment that it gets sweeter.

Love, Mom

p.s. I know it was you who peed the velvet....you're a bad liar

yes

these are comfortable sleeping positions....

nicknames

after all the hoopla surrounding my arrival, I got some quiet time with mom (once she came down off all those drugs she was hopped up on--like she couldn't even lift her arms to hold me they were so strong!)  Smack dab in the middle of our snuggle her phone beeps. What does she do?  You guessed it, she interrupts our quiet time and picks it up.  She starts laughing and then gives me my first nickname.....Francy Pants.  The credit does not belong to her though.  That phone beep was actually a text message from aunt Megan.  it read,
Kyle just looked at me and smiled and said, "I already know what I am going to call her.  Francy Pants"
And just like that I got my first nickname.  Thanks uncle Kyle

I LOVE IT!



it only took 32 hours....

It only took 32 hours for me to arrive (I was like my mom before I ever let out my first cry!), but at 4:00pm on August 23rd I made my debut.  Weighing in at 6lbs 14oz and 20 1/4 inches long I overheard the nurses say I was perfect (was there any doubt?).  If you don't believe me take a look at my first official photo.

The staff in the operating room looked at my parents all funny when they said my name was Ford Frances Sullivan.  No, I was not conceived in the back of a Ford and, no, my borthers and sisters will not be named Chevy and Mercedes.  Ford is my dad's mom's maiden name and Frances was her first name.  CooCoo Nana says it sounds like a Red Carpet name....maybe one day...
If you look past the squishiness and barely open eyes, can you tell who I look like?

Four days in the hospital gave my mom a lot of time to take photos of me....

I did a whole lot of sleeping those first few days (felt kinda bad about the 32 hour thing so I gave mom some time to rest). 

My first official smile (I probably just dirtied my diaper)

Lots of people came to see me

Aunt Megan

Aunt Ellen (that chick kissed me like a million times)

Uncle Kyle

Aunt Teri (kinda convenient that she's my pediatrician too!)

Mainly I did lots of snuggling with mom and dad

I'm exhausted just rememberig those first days.  I'm gonna go get some milkies and have a little nap before I continue bringing everyone up to speed.......