Happy 80th Birthday Grammy Casey

Today is Grammy Casey's 80th birthday! Here are 5 things you may not know about her:

1. She is the mother of 7 children, she has 19 grand-children and 1 great-grand child (i guess it is easy to say baby frank is her favorite great-grand child!)

2. Grammy enjoyed her career as a nutritionist before she retired

3. She loves basketball, when we visited during March Madness she kept us up to date on all the teams and scores.

4. She volunteers as a docent at the Milwaukee Art Museum, she gave us a private tour :)

5. Flying is not one of her favorite things to do, however did fly to Ohio for baby Frank's baptism (see picture)... too bad she was flying on sky bus the weekend sky bus shut down.... don't worry she made it home eventually on a different airline

Dinner with the Brights

Tonight Tim and Mary Bright (my parents friends from college) came over for dinner and got the chance to play with baby frank... it looks like everyone had a great time :)

I Can Do It MYself!

People always ask me how old frank is and when I reply,"five months old," they rarely believe me saying he looks more like 9 or 10 months... I always claim he is just a really good eater and now he is totally getting the hang of solid foods... he really likes sweet potatoes, carrots and peaches... he is not a fan of pears, green beans, sweet peas, or applesauce... our strange child only eats orange food for some reason but at least he is eating it! He is now cleaning his plate and trying to lick the bowl if i give him a chance... he desperately trying to feed himself so i let him take the spoon when he is all done eating... he needs to stop growing up so fast!

He loves to feed himself

Carrots are YUMMY!

I want some more...

What a Day!

Today was such a full day! we went to the pool -twice- and played all afternoon. Frank's other favorite new toy is his jumparoo. He gets very excited to be in it and just squeals and delight. He also decided tonight he wanted to hold his own bottle... he is getting to be such a big boy and quite independent.

in his Jumparoo!

playing around

such a fun time

look I can do it myslef

what a big boy

Pool Time part two

Later this afternoon we went to the Mahovlic's pool to play with Kym, Brody, Shannan and Courtney Mahovlic. Baby frank borrowed Brody's lilly pad float and enjoyed just floating around the pool with grandma Hayes. Brody (who is 16 months) and Frank (who is 5 months) look as though they will be the best of friends. Brody made me realize how extremely pale frank is... we had a great time at the pool and we hope to meet up with them again before we go back to Dayton

Playing in the pool

Frank and Brody talking

what cute little boys

courtney and me with our babies

the grandma's with their boys

what sweet little boys

Brody sitting on his blanket and Frank with grandpa

in his lilly pad

with grandma in the pool

Pool Time part one

This morning we took baby frank to the pool at the Lakes. We met up with Doug Sadler and Anne Bates, who actually taught me to swim a the Jaycee Pool back in the day. So we decided it only seemed fitting that baby frank's first "swim lesson" should be with them. Doug put baby frank under the water for the first time (he is professional baby dunker)... after he got over the initial shock he didn't really seem to be too upset over it... he showed off his skills of kicking, splashing as well as blowing bubbles while we were there... he is definitely a little guppy and just loves the pool (just like mommy did!)

Right after he was dunked... he wasn't really happy

why would you do that to me? what did i do to you?

talking to Anne about swimming

at least he doesn't hold grudges... he was quickly back with doug

kicking and blowing bubbles

Morning Playtime

In the mornings frank likes to work at his desk aka the exersaucer. This was the most wonderful invention ever! It entertains him for such a long time... He is addicted to the ladybug and the bumble bee... i guess he may be a entomologist... it may be too early to say that

playing in the mornings

This is such a Frank4 face... it is scary

getting some work done... look at those little legs

the bee tastes yummy

so much fun!