the name game

Once upon a time before Frankie was Frankie we affectionately called her Flavor Flav. We didn't know she was a she and a modern baby name book actually guided us toward this gem of a name. It stuck.

Now that she's here we call her all kinds of things such as:

Frank and Beans (not an appropriate baby or blog name, look it up on urban dictionary), cranky Frankie, butter noodle, angel britches, Frank, Fitz (one of our boy names)... and occasionally she still gets to be Flavor Flav.

Is it bad that I totally ripped off VH1?

Anyhow, this is my official internet introduction of Frances Mertice Anderson, 10 weeks after her birthdate of 1/17/11. It was MLK day, she came out at 2131, she weighed 5lbs 10oz. She looked like this:

She looks like this now:

She's nearly doubled in weight at 10lbs!

Man, she is cute. 

Here's a few more pictures to catch up for lost time...

 mint chip flavored

 giant cloth diaper wearing

 pony riding

 smiling

head holding 

Morsel of Love!