**February 14th**

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day! Well little Frances is still not feeling herself so we had a very low key V-day celebration. We went out for a late lunch/ early dinner at this little brewery by our house. The name of the place is in German and I can't even begin to spell it. But they have the best garlic fries! MMmmmm mmm!!! Usually Frances loves to go out to eat. She sits in her little high chair watching everyone and trying to feed her puppy fishy crackers. Her puppy is this little plastic fisher-price dog (here's a picture of him).

It came in the little people set we got her for Christmas. Well "puppy" now goes every where we go and Frances likes to feed him crackers. It is so cute. Today though she sat in her high chair for about a half hour then wanted to be held. I guess we are lucky if that is her version of not behaving in a restaraunt. So we finished eating and then our big V-day outing of the day was to go to the Bass Pro Shop across the street. We must be getting old if we consider that an outing! There is a big fish tank in the store and lots of "stuffed" animals. It is a hunting store so they are those kind of stuffed animals. There are geese, ducks, bears, deer, raccoons, beavers, you name it. Now that Frances knows all her animals it is really fun when she sees them. She could point them all out and doesn't know the difference between the zoo and a store yet. Then she was tired out so we went through the Starbucks drive through for a hot chocolate and then came home. Along with having a cold I stuck my finger in her mouth yesterday and she is getting all her back teeth. That can't be fun! Poor little girl. I feel so bad for her.

Before we left we managed to get a few non-cranky pictures of her in this cute little heart t-shirt.

That little pink hedge hog is "Smitten". I bought him for Frances for V-day. We call him Smitty for short. Thanks for stopping by! I hope everyone had a great day. - Sarah