Francie Bash!

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Saturday night was "Francie Bash" at the Johnet's to introduce Baby Francie to her cousins, aunts and uncles. Everyone had been looking forward to the evening... the Kreefts and the Beldings came up from Aptos, the Arnerich's came over from Orinda, Uncle Jerry flew up from Southern California, Aunt Kat came back from a whirlwind trip to Red Bluff, Ann Skidmore came and Jen Skidmore had just flown in from New York City!

"All those people are coming here to meet ME?!"

"Dad, stop kissing me and find a cute outfit for me to wear..."

"You are crazy if you think I'm wearing that..."

The outfit dad picked :)

Ready for the party with Dad in my pink party pashmina

Uncle Jerry meets Francie!

Claire Elise (my god-daughter!)

Jen and Mare (we met at this age!)

Em & Con

The Arnerich Kids, Luke, Ella & James

Aunt Kaky and the twins

Who does Francie look like?... Everyone looking at baby pictures

Francie's Busy Friday

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Wake up and play with Dad while Mom sleeps in a little more

Watch the Today Show with Mom on the couch while Dad gets ready for work

Change my outfit for a morning nap

Heading to lunch with Jannie and Mom

Convinced Dad to come home early from work to play so Mom and Jannie could go for mani-pedis in the afternoon, this was my first time all by myself with Dad! (of course he did a great job and I was a good girl:)

We've been pretty busy and going on lots of outtings so it was nice to have a day at home relaxing. We made dinner for a neighbor who just had a baby too and then walked over to the Johnets for dinner with the Carters and the Worthings. It was a fun night!

Francie's first time in the sling with Mom to walk over to the Johnet's for dinner

Francie Throws a Dinner Party

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We had some friends over for dinner Wednesday night and Francie entertained us all. She was a very good baby, helping to shop for groceries, cook dinner, BBQ with Dad and serve cocktails to the guests... (just kidding, she slept the whole time and loved being passed around to be cuddled all night :)

Groccery Shopping at Andronico's with Mom and Jan

Mom gave me a bath before my guests arrive

Trying to decide which outfit to wear... Francie obviously didn't like the one I suggested by the look on her face

Taking a cat nap after I'm clean and dressed for company

Aunt Kat and Grannie Jannie help cook!

Some of Francie's friends... April and Erik

Francie and Mom

Aunt Kat, Jennifer and Jannie keeping me entertained

Tim and Francie

Hanging out after dinner

Worn out after her guests left

Francie back home

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Francie's had her first bath at home Sunday... we waited for Jannie to come over and help when we got home from Red Bluff. The nurses at the hospital told us we could wait for a "real" bath until the umbilical cord fell off but we thought she could use a bath after meeting all the barnyard animals so we gave her a warm sponge bath and were careful around her umbilical cord (hopefully it falls off soon!) She was a good girl for her bath but liked the snuggling in her towel part best. :)

Nice and clean

Sunday night we had dinner at the Johnet's with the whole crowd. Mark, Sarah and Kat, James and Em, Jerry and Allison, Em's family joined us and the Kreefts came up from Aptos with Drew to meet Francie. Jan and John made a yummy chicken dinner and we all spent a lot of time starring at Francie... Sophie was a little upset not to be the center of attention and promptly destroyed the new dog toy Jerry brought for her.

Cousin Drew meets Francie (Drew was worried about her name, he thinks "Mary Frances Borchard Heffernan" is just way too long to write on the top of your test.)

"Grantie Mimi" (she coined the phrase for Great Aunt")

Uncle Jerry

What are you mad about Francie!?

Look at those long toes

Uncle James

Em's family.... Marla, Em, Joe and Marla

We were just hanging out with Jannie at home Monday while Dad was at work. He sure misses his girls while he is at work (and we miss him!) so we met him for lunch today so he could get a "Francie Fix." We had our first "New Mom/New Grandmother" incident today after meeting Heff for lunch... we walked around downtown and did some errands, then got back to the car and loaded up Francie, the shopping bags, the diaper bag and all our stuff. We got home and realized we'd left the stroller on the sidewalk! Jannie ran back downtown while I called our friend Rory's office since we'd left it right outside his office door. His secretary found it safe and sound on the sidewalk and pulled it inside for Jan to pick up. Whoops!

Jannie got me snuggled in my bassinet while mom was napping