6th months

Wow, 6 months have flown by. When I was in school, I always wanted time to fly by and for me to be one semester closer to graduation. Now that I have a sweet little baby, I want time to stand still. The only nice thing about time continuing to move on it that Georgia Grace continues to get more fun as the days go on. This past month has been very busy with 2 big trips, one to Mississippi and one to Florida.
Georgia weighs 13 lbs 6 ounces(15%), is 75% for height and 50% for head. Her weight has dropped a bit due to trying solid foods. Georgia does not like eating solid foods and does not nurse well after I try solid foods. She is still having a reaction to the rice cereal so we will be skipping that. I am not surprised that I would have a child with feeding issues. I just hope it mellows out a bit and she at least enjoys eating some kind of food.
Georgia has become very active this last month. She is now rolling over both ways. The first night she figured this out she just kept rolling right out the door. She loves to sit up and play with toys. She also loves her exersaucer where she can now turn herself around in it. She is a pro with most of the toys on it. The other night she was laying on the floor trying to get a toy to spin, but her hands were busy. She lifted up her foot and started to make it go. It was the funniest thing.
I don't think we will ever have a good routine for naps, but she seems to go with the flow. She started waking back up during the night. Sometimes I let her cry it out and others I get up and feed her. She started doing this during our Florida trip, I think because she could smell me.
Georgia is getting so much more playful and loves other babies. She loves her friend Autumn and her new BFF Molly who was born July 1. Molly came over the other day and Georgia just smiles and stares at her. She still loves singing and practicing her sounds. She laughs at me and Zoey. He attention span is about 10 minutes. She will play happily and then the cry starts out of nowhere. She still loves to be held, but is getting a little less clingy. She is what I call potty broken which I will explain in another post.
Georgia, we love you so much and can't believe how fast you are growing up. You are going to be such a special little girl.

Beach Trip

We have had a busy summer. We have been traveling to the lake with our small group, to Mississippi to see Robert's family, to Florida to see my family, and still have our trip to California for 2 weeks.This past week we went down to Watercolor,FL with my family. It is a really cool community, especially for young kids. My whole family was able to make it this time: mom, dad, Brian, Paul, Sharon, Ryan, Emma, and new little Miller. It was so much fun to see everyone and to meet my new nephew. We had a fun but tiring week. I am used to being around little kids, but still needed rest times after playing with Ryan and Emma. Brian was even more tired and would go outside and sit in the quiet to recuperate.
We went out to eat a few nights and took turns cooking the other nights. I made cute flip flop cookies for the kids with bright crawlers for the thong part(I forgot to take a picture). Ryan and Emma loved them. The were all eaten before the week was over and the kids we so sad. We had other desserts but they liked them the best. I went out and got stuff to make more. I didn't have my cookie cutter, so we made round cookies and called them beach balls. They were still a big hit.

Midway through the week we got a call about the activity on our credit card. Come to find out someone had tried to use the number to buy some stuff online. Robert had to use that card to hold his spot on the deep sea fishing trip, other than that we hadn't used the card. They tried to make the purchase the day after, coincidence, I think not. It is all ok we just got new cards.

So we have known that Georgia Grace is not an easy baby. She is very clingy and required a lot of attention. It was pointed out even more to me this past week when we saw how easy my nephew was. My oldest brother Paul didn't even hold Georgia until the 3rd day because he was afraid of making her cry. We love our little girl so much, but wish that she was easier at times.
I know this is Sharon's story to tell but I feel that I can share it too being a speech therapist. My nephew has apraxia which is motor planning problem disorder. He has trouble saying his sounds. He has recently gotten the "L" sound and is so proud. When he would mess and and say things like "Buzz Wightyear". Would would ask him, "Buzz Wightyear, or Lightyear?" and he would correct himself. One evening out on the porch, my dad was talking and said something about my mom being his wife. Ryan said, "No Bopa, not wife, Life. Put your tongue here and say life." What a cutie.

Emma does not have a speech disorder, just typical 2 year-old speech. She could not say Georgia's name. She called her "baby Gorga". It was pretty cute coming from her.

Mom with the two youngest grandkids, Georgia and Miller. Georgia is 2 months older, but don't they look like they are the same size.

We celebrated Paul's birthday while we were down there. We got Paul mint moonpies. Emma took them and held on to them all night. She sat in Bopa's lap and talked about them for a long time while Paul opened other gifts(or I should say while Ryan opened the gifts and then handed them to Paul).

Paul and the kids blowing out candles

Ryan eating his cake

Georgia and Emma had matching swim suit covers. So cute

No, not my baby. The newest Vraciu, Miller!!

Playing at the beach

relaxing in her beach chair

Fun times with Uncle Brian

You can't see her face here, but she has the biggest smile. She would run screaming from the waves and then run right back towards them.

One of the things I love most about the beach is eating and watching the ocean. This place was called the shrimp shack. They didn't have anything I wanted, but there was and airstream trailer across the street selling all different kinds of grilled cheese sandwiches. I was in heaven. I think my meal was better than everyone else.

A couple of times Robert and I took Miller to help Paul and Sharon out. It allowed them to be one-on-one with the kids, or have a kid free afternoon. Of course everyone thought that I had twins. They babies had fun swimming together and going for walks. It wasn't that bad, but I think it would be harder if Robert wasn't there to help me.

Fishing trip, Brian, Dad, and Robert. They caught our dinner for the night. The did not catch a shark. I guess I am still the winner.

A double catch on one line

Heading to the pool

Watercolor and the surrounding area had really fun events during the evening. One evening we took pizza and had dinner while we watch "How I became a Pirate". It is one of Ryan's favorite books. It was very cute and the kids loved it. During the program Ryan found a giant millipede. He placed it on Uncle Brian, where the millipede preceded to pee and poop. Georgia had spit up on him earlier in the day. Not a good day for uncle Brian.

The play

Day at the beach

Uncle Brian building sandcastles with Ryan. Robert was out there earlier. Brian used to love building sandcastles when he was younger. It was neat seeing him help Ryan.

I'm making Yo Gabba Gabba characters for Emma. I did not know there names only there colors. Getting a description from a two year old was not easy.

A perfect day at the beech

We had a big canopy that we set up for shade and to put the babies under it. Since I had Georgia in the shade the whole day, I didn't put sun screen on her this particular day. I did not know that the canopy wasn't fully SPF proof. Her little face got so burnt. Her little eyes were swollen.

She looks so sweet sleeping on the blanket.

All the other days we put sunscreen on her, kept her in the SPF proof shade and made her wear her hat and glasses. Robert and I think she looks like a little alien, a cute alien though.

Daddy and Georgia

We got the cutest picture of Robert and Georgia from the profession shots. I will post it when we get it.

Family shot one evening

Mom and Dad. Thank you for the wonderful trip. We had so much fun and created great memories.

Bopa with the 2 grandbabies

The kids are running around in there underwear and naked. Doesn't everybody wish they could do that. They had so much fun. I think Emma's bottom got a little itchy at the end of the night.

The last night Emma was in a clingy mood and wanted to sit in Paul's lap. The only way to keep her in her chair was to make funny faces. She was laughing so hard and would shout "again! again!" before I had finished the face. I wish we had gotten it on video. Last night
Having fun with mommy Trying to get sunset pictures along with everyone else there

They had so much fun together. Those Vracius just can't keep there close on. Miller in his diaper, Ryan in his underwear, and Emma naked.

Emma is wearing my Grandmothers dress. We are going to get a picture of Georgia in it when she is older too.

The last night someone decided to leave 20+ empty beer cases in our bike carrier

4th of July

Every year we end up doing something different for the 4th of July. This year we went down to Gulf Port, MS and saw Robert's family. All of Robert's aunts were in town and he has a lot of cousins that live down there. It was a lot of fun seeing the family and hanging out. We went to the beach and fed the seagulls(I know, not what I normally go to the beach for, but 5 year-olds like it). We went to a fishing rodeo and saw some HUGE fish that had been caught. On Monday the 4th, we headed up to Vernal to the family farm area for a huge family reunion lunch. We had a little service for Bobby, Robert's dad, and buried his ashes. He is buried in the family cemetery next to his favorite uncle. It was nice to have some closure and put his ashes in the ground. You are greatly missed Bobby. After lunch we hurried back to Huntsville to see my friend Kristi and her new baby Molly. She had Molly on July 1st, literally as we were walking out the door for our trip. I told her that she was not allowed to have Molly why I was out of town and she listened, but I still didn't get to see her in the Hospital. She is a beautiful healthy baby, 8 lbs 11 ounces born by c-section. She was breech and no one knew. They are doing well now.

At the farm.
There would have been more pictures from out trip, but I left the memory card in the computer as I often do.
Me holding Molly

Best Friends!!!!