The Frantz Family: Growing Up so Fast!!!!!!!

I can't believe it's almost Thanksgiving! Not only that, but this past week our little man turned 5 months old and our big girl turned 18 months. How fast time is flying!!!!!! They are both at such fun stages. Rivers is so smiley and loves to laugh. His big toothless grin can make any day brighter. He is close to rolling over, loves kicking his feet, and has become quite a chatty little guy. He also loves watching whatever is going on around him. A lot of his time is spent in his bumbo seat at various points of the day. He sits on the table during meal times, watches me do chores, and joins in with Maddie's story time. As long as he is part of the action he is content.

Madeline is learning so much right now. I really think her vocabulary grows by about five words a day. I am not sure where she is learning it all. She has these foam bath toys and when we were taking a bath the other night she picked up the letter "Y" and said "Y". She proceeded to do the same thing with the B and the L. That's her extent of identifying letters, but I was shocked. This winter is going to be so much fun. She just learned this week what snow is and every time she sees a picture of it she lights up and says "SNOW!" Her newest thing is having tea parties. Almost every morning, she brings all of her stuffed animals out of her room into the living room and serves them tea. She is quite the little hostess. She has also become more shy. She clings to me or Mike when she is in a room of people, but give her about 30 minutes and she is showing out.

Here are some of my favorite pics of our past couple of weeks. The first couple are from Aunt E and Uncle Al's visit. We had so much fun the couple of days they were here. We got to show them what a real fall was like because they got here right before all the leaves started to fall off the trees.