5 months

Every time I sit down to do another monthly update on Georgia Grace I can't believe that she is another month older. Time is flying by and I don't feel like I am getting to fully enjoy it. We have stayed so busy this past month with at least 1 thing a day and sometimes 3 activities in a day. It is tiring me out and I know Georgia misses out play time at home. This is the first time that I have not had a doctor's apt to know how much she weighs. She weighs about 13lbs give or take a few ounces. She is still in size one disposable diapers. She is all over the place in clothing size. She is so long that she needs to wear 6 months PJ's, but is so skinny that she fits in 0-3 month dresses.
Georgia Grace is only getting breast milk for now since she doesn't seem to be able to handle solid food. She still eats about every 3 hours. She is getting better with naps and will take 2 long naps if I am home and let her, which is not normal. She has just started waking up again during the nights. Last night she decided that 3:30 was the time to wake up and play. Let me just say that I am not the most fun person to play with at 3:30 in the morning, especially when I was woken up once every hour before that.
Developmentally Georgia is so close to sitting up by herself. She has been able to sit up for 30 seconds or so and use her hands to balance for a couple of weeks. She can roll over from tummy to back in cloth diapers now with no trouble and is also close to rolling over from back to tummy, but I don't see it happening too soon. Georgia Grace does not like to be on her tummy so I don't know why she would want to roll on it. We are not sure if she is teething or not, but is sure acting like it. She is a very happy baby for me and loves to sing and dance.
This month has been very busy with her first trip to the lake, getting baptized, vacation bible school, and lots of parties. We are almost never at home. My poor baby will never have a schedule.
Georgia loves to be held by mommy of course and her favorite song is The wheels on the bus.
She still has all the same little nicknames: Princess, sweetpea, missy, little bit, and little girl.
She was the only little girl in the baby room during VBS and all the workers loved to see what dress and bow I was going to put on her. They would tell me that all the little boys would stare at her. She is already capturing their hearts :)
Georgia Grace loves to suck her fingers. She can usually get her whole hand in there with a few fingers from the other hand too(I will try to get a picture). The weird thing is that she wants me to suck them too. She sticks them in my mouth and wants me to suck them. My friends from church laughed because they have seen Georgia with her whole hand in her mouth and then looked over and saw her hand in my mouth. She has also expanded her verbal skills.  She has started using the "G" sound in her talking. It is so cute. She loves when I talk to her in baby talk. I just wonder what she thinks I am saying. Georgia gets real tears very fast. It always fools other people because most kids don't get tears. She is just a drama queen already. Lately she has been popping her jaw. It creeps me out when she does it. I hope it stops and doesn't cause problems later on or she will be a teeth grinder like me.

Finally bigger than Tiny Baby

Father's Day

Breakfast in bed, gifts, and cuddles from Georgia Grace, Robert couldn't have asked for a better day. Georgia spent the morning playing with daddy in bed while I made Robert breakfast. We then gave him his gifts: a picture frame just like the one he gave me and a stepping stone with Georgia's foot prints in it. Blakeley and I got together earlier in the week to make the stepping stones, but I had to hurry and leave and take Georgia to the doctor since she hadn't eaten in almost 12 hours(another story, she is ok now). The stone didn't look as cute as I wanted it to. Robert said he would like to make another one and do it on father's day, so we went and bought the kit and made it. It looks so cute and would be adorable out in the garden, if we had one. For now it is sitting on our dining room floor.
I tried to give Georgia Grace rice cereal again, and had the same reaction- Throw up EVERYWHERE!!! Poor baby was puny. The nice thing about it was Robert got to hold her more than she usually allows him to. He also got to hold her while she was sleeping which he hadn't done since she was a newborn.

Daddy and Georgia Grace after church
Enjoying the sunshine

Playing on the couch

Kisses

Sleeping after a long day of play

Baptism

This past Sunday(6/12/11) we had Georgia baptized. I always said that I was not going to baptize my kids because I believe it is a choice that you are supposed to make to God. I still believe that, but knew how important it was to our families to have our kids baptized. We will do something special when our kids decide that they want to worship God.
Our families came down for the special day. My mom worked really and I mean really hard on making Georgia Grace's dress and bonnet. They were made out of my Great Grandmother's slip from her wedding dress. They were so beautiful. It was special for my mom to get to make the dress and out of special fabric and special for me that my daughter got to wear it. Thanks mom for all of your hard work.

Here is the beautiful girl in her beautiful dress
She loves it!!!

You can't see the detail, but it is so pretty

The bonnet

Georgia, mom, and me. This is the dress that she wore to the Church. It is the dress that my mom and I were baptized in.

Alan baptizing her. He is our favorite pastor, don't tell the others.

The proud parents

Hunter, Blakeley, me, Robert, and Georgia Grace.

These are her Godparents.

Thank you Hunter and Blakeley for being a part of this special day and for being a part of Georgia's life

Robert's Family. They came 5 hours for one day.

Parker, Peyton, me, Georgia, Robert, Jennifer, and Carolyn

The whole Family

My Family

Robert, Jeannie, Me, Georgia, and Robert

Yes my husband and dad have the same name

On the way home we decided not to put clothes on Georgia because we wanted more pictures of her in the gown and didn't want to make her too mad with all the changing of outfits. She looks so cute and naked here. She has a diaper on but you can't see it.

Me with my godson, Jude and Blakeley with her goddaughter Georgia

Georgia with her boyfriend Jasper.

We joked that this would play at their slide show at their wedding

These next few pictures are of the lunch tables and spread

We had a yogurt parfait so I had something to eat.

This is the cake I made. Luckily I took a picture before I put the lid on it. The cake was too tall and I smashed it. Owell, it still tasted good.



This was a very special day for us and our little girl. Thank you for everyone who was a part of this.

Georgia Grace we love you so much

Hair pulling

When your kid starts school you have to worry that they will hit other kids, bite, pinch, or pull hair. Georgia Grace is letting us know what kind of kid she is going to be early on. She loves to pull hair. She pulls Robert's arm hair, chest hair, whatever she can get a hold of. I don't have much hair to start with, but fell like she has pulled out a 10th of it. I might need to go get a weave, hehe. It is not just us though, she pulls her own hair. She will grab a hold of her hair, pull so hard she will start screaming, but doesn't let go of it. She even had a bald spot from it.  Hopefully she will grow out of it.

1st Feeding

Georgia Grace turned 4 months a few weeks ago which means she was able to start solid foods. We decided we were going to try rice cereal once a week until she was able to get a good swallow and then we would do it every day. We started her out in the bumbo because we hadn't pulled out the highchair yet. She did pretty well. I have been trying to post a video with this for a week now but can't get it to load. The video is so funny. Georgia takes her first bite and plays with it, spitting some out. When I get the second spoon ready she dives for it like she can't get it fast enough. Here are a few pictures from the first feeding.

Getting ready for food
First bite

Yummy!!!

We finally pulled out the highchair so she could lean back like she is supposed to.

So today I was feeding Georgia again for the 3rd or 4th time. The other times she had not really eaten anything, it was more for the practice. Today she was really eating and doing well. I was all excited and thought that we were going to need to start doing this every day. Well 3 hours later I was shown I was wrong...Georgia started throwing up and did not stop. She would throw up, we would change clothes and then she would do it again. She had 4 big blows and a few small ones. I don't think the poor baby has anything left in her tummy. Our friend's baby did the same thing and they think she can't have rice. I am going to have to call the doctor, but for now no more food. Georgia was so tired she fell asleep playing. She has to be so exhausted because she usually needs to be rocked to sleep.

So tired from getting sick that she fell asleep in her exersaucer

Memorial Day Weekend

Keeping with tradition, we went to the lake for Memorial day weekend. I used to always get a group of friends together and go down for the whole weekend. My life has changed with our new addition, and we just spent the weekend with the family.
We spent the weekend relaxing, boating, going to Hammers, and going to the dam. Georgia Grace loved the boat. When I say loved the boat I mean she fell asleep as soon as we got on it. She would stay asleep the entire time too. I do not know how someone could sleep in an uncomfortable life vest, but I guess she liked the vibration of the boat.
The last time Georgia Grace saw my parents, they watched for a night so we could go to a wedding. She cried most of the time she was with them, not wanting them to hold her. This time she was much better, allowing both of them to get some special cuddle time and gave lots of smiles and giggles. Mom kept saying she was a different baby. I hope this happy streak continues.

What a cutie

She looks so miserable in the life vest

Mommy and georgia

Georgia driving the boat with daddy

Georgia and Gigi

Georgia and Bopa

We were cruising in the boat and Robert almost hit something. It dove down in the water so we knew it was an animal. We turned around and saw a beaver. I have been coming to this lake for 17 years and have never seen a beaver in it. It was pretty neat. Every stick we saw in the water there after was a beaver to Robert.

Family at the lake :)