I feel like Franklin is a lot like Mr. Heckles, Monica and Rachel's wacky downstairs neighbor on Friends. He hates excessive noise and complains about weird things.  Franklin's Big Book of Grievances would look something like this:

September 15, 2:30 pm. Excessive noise. Dad's work phone rang. He answered it.

September 15, 3:30 pm. Excessive noise. Mom and Allyson came home.

September 15, 5:15 pm. Excessive noise. Mom opened the door.

September 15, 5:17 pm. Excessive noise. Mom brought the garbage cans up from the street.

September 15, 5:25 pm. Excessive noise. Allyson yelled at her video game.

Gotta love dogs.

Also, I have taken three packing peanuts away from him in the last four minutes WHERE IS HE GETTING ALL THESE PACKING PEANUTS?!

In other less interesting news, Allyson:

• Has finally caught the back-to-school crud. I'm honestly surprised it took her this long.
• Starts soccer this weekend. Her first practice is tomorrow and first game is Saturday. One of her coaches is a really nice guy we know from church whose daughter is a year younger than Allyson. 
• Wants to be Link for Halloween.

Also, we just got Christmas stuff in at work. I'm preparing for the inevitable blast-wave of YOU GUYS HAVE CHRISTMAS STUFF OUT ALREADY HOLY CATS. Retail is great.