Ella Marie Fransen

Well the Fransen's have had a pretty busy summer thus far. Daddy (Gabe) is busy with worked and golf this summer...leagues and just for fun. Mommy (Kelsey) is busy with work (now back to 4 days a week) and trying to get out to the golf course when she can. We are both really busy with Ella this summer though it seems.

We haven't taken any "big" trips this summer, but have gotten away for a few "mini" adventures which have include our friends' wedding which were both in, a trip to Sauk Rapids to visit my parents and Grandma Arliene and Duane, a trip to Detroit Lakes/Walker to visit Great Gram and Gramp Hedlund and my brother. WE also took a couple quick trips down to the Twin Cities for wedding/baby showers. Needless to say the summer is half over and we feel like it just started!


Ella is still growing like a weed and is a very happy baby. People are always so surprised how content and friendly she is with strangers and new places. She has however in the last few weeks started her separation issues from us. She will cry if she's in a new place or with new people and one of us is not there while she gets comfortable.


She continues to amaze us with how fast she is developing new skills. She had begun to crawl this last week, well actually is more like a belly flop, but it gets her to where she wants to go and is getting closer to a crawl all the time. This means we get to start baby proofing the house...yeh for us.

She has also begun to unstack her pyramid toys but can't quite figure out how to put them back on yet. She's eating solids and loving them...even more when she sneezes and gets it all over mommy!

My mom has summers off from her daycare so she been here during the middle of the week taking care of Ella and spoiling Gabe and me. I keep telling her that I think it is going to be a bigger adjustment for Gabe and me when she leaves cause we'll have to do all our regular chores again! It's been great having her here and I know that both her and Ella have really enjoyed having this time together.

Ella loves pulling Gabe's nose and arm hair and pulling my hair (hence me chopping it off). She has been spending more time in her pool, going for walks in her stroller, and shopping with Grandma Hedlund.

Over the last week we have discovered that Ella is allergic to something in powdered formula. She has broken out in hives for the last couple days during our "trials" to find out what was causing it and today she actually vomited all over Gabe while they were lying on the couch (he was not amused and couldn't get in the shower fast enough). So, we get to take some meds to try to produce more milk so that we can hopefully skip the whole formula thing and just go to whole milk when the time comes.

Other than that things are going great here and we are trying to enjoy as much of this gorgeous weather as we can with Ella. She's growing so fast and it's so fun to watch her discover new things accomplish new skills. Speaking of which, I see she is waking up from her nap so I need to get back to her.