Fall in love

Fall is one of my favorite times of year. This fall has been particularly beautiful. The weather has been in the 70's most days with very few rainy days. We have a park in our neighborhood that we try to walk to once a day to go swinging. I love seeing all the leaves change colors and hear the leaves rustle under my feet. I wish we could have spring, summer, and fall; no winter. As I write this it has just gotten cold here. Robert finally brought some wood in to make a fire later this week. It is too cold and rainy to go to the park now, but hopefully it will get a little warmer soon. Here are some pictures of Georgia doing her favorite thing.

We have three big oak trees in our front yard that produce a lot of leaves. Robert was out raking them the other weekend and the two girls next door came over to play in them. Watching them jump in the pile of leaves over and over again made me excited for seeing Georgia do that some day. For now she just got to sit in them and did not like it very much.

And We're off

(This is my second attempt. I uploaded all the videos and them something messed up and it didn't save. I am so mad.)
As I previously stated Georgia is crawling now. Right after Georgia turned 9 months we started to work on the crawling thing. We stopped the cloth diapers for a week since they were so bulky. Sure enough after two days of being in the disposable diapers she started crawling. We let her get good at it for a week before we put the cloth diapers back on. While it is so cute watching her crawl, it is definitely a whole new game. We have to watch her constantly. She loves to crawl over and get Zoey's toys or play on her bed. I also am having to clean the floors multiple times a day to get rid of the dog hair. Anyone want a dog?

Yes she is naked. It is our favorite time right after bath.

This is an older video. One time during nap Georgia threw her paci over the crib. I was able to crawl down and hand it to her without seeing me. It took her a minute but she must have realized that there was a body to the hand that appeared. She pulled the bumper down to see me. After that it turned into a game.

This is one of her favorite activities, to toss everything out of a container. She loves to take nicely folded clothes and throw them everywhere.

Wedding and babies

This past weekend we went down to New Orleans for Robert's cousin's wedding. It was on Friday night which was actually better because we got the rest of the weekend to hang out with family. The reception was an adult only reception. We got special permission to take Georgia along with a few of Robert's cousins to bring their kids. Georgia and I only stayed about 30 minutes at the reception. She was getting fussy and I didn't want anyone to hear her so we left. Robert had a blast with his family the rest of the night.
On Saturday we drove over to Gulfport, MS where some of his family lives. Robert's cousin Angela just had twin girls and we wanted to go meet them. Angela looked great. You could barely tell she had just had a baby, let alone twins. We stayed at Robert's cousin's house and he had a impromptu party for the Alabama vs LSU game. Even though we lost we have fun hanging out with family and friends.
The whole weekend was a lot of the fun. The drive was very long and Georgia Grace did not like it. On the way there she got car sick twice and threw up all over her car seat. It smelt so bad. Most kids like the car and will sleep in it. Not my child. She wants her crib. She would take short naps, but not much.

Angela with Chloe

Reagan is holding Anna. Lily and Cameron are other cousins kids

Mikey is Angela's other child

Georgia and I are all ready for the game!!

I know some people think this is weird, but I think it is so cute. We have to take a potty with us because Georgia does not like to poop in her diaper.

Halloween

This year was so much fun figuring out what we could all be together. Robert was Woody from Toy Story and I was Little Bo Peep, his girlfriend in the movie. Georgia was of course my sheep. I thought this was soo cute and creative. The Friday before Halloween we went to our annual party with our friends. There is another couple that has a baby 2 weeks older than Georgia. Hailey and I were pregnant together and were even in the same child birthing classes. We have multiple pregnancy pictures together. It was only perfect that she walks in as  Little Bo Peep with a sheep too. Her husband was the big bad wolf. It was very cute. As we were sitting playing with the babies, talking about how we have never seen another Little Bo Peep. In walks another Little Bo Peep(LBP) with 8 sheep. I will not have pictures of them because that LBP showed too much peep and the sheep looked like they had been sheered. It was too funny that we all matched.

On Halloween I went over to Blakeley's house to get a few pictures with the kids before handing out candy. Georgia missed her party with her friends because I had to work :(. After we passed out candy we went to our friends Matt and Kristi's house like we did last year. They had a bonfire set up in the street as did their other neighbors. Our other friends live across the street and they had a party too. Their neighborhood goes all out. While in my costume, I kept knocking things over or almost catching on fire. I finally changed as to not ruin my costume. Georgia went around to the neighbors to show off her costume, but next year we will actually trick or treat.

My little Sheep

Little Bo Peep, Sheep, and Woody
I made Robert's and my costume. All the Little Po Peep costumes I saw were not mommy appropriate.

Hailey with Anna Grace and me with Georgia Grace

The 2 sheep

Ceiling fans!!

Blakeley and her family as the Wizard of Oz

Georgia and Jasper as the Lion and the Lamb

Georgia with Molly. Molly is a Monkey. She also had a Pea in the Pod costume, but she did not like that one.

9 months

As I always say, time is just flying by. Georgia Grace is getting so big and so much fun. She got her second tooth the day after she turned 9 months. We went to the doctor for her check up and did not have the best visit. She luckily did not have to get shots, but we found out that Georgia is not doing well in the charts. She weighed 14 lbs and 12 ounces(2%) and her height had dropped back down to 50% and her headed also dropped to the 25%. The doctor was concerned because she had dropped in all three categories and didn't have much fat to spare. When you look at her you think she is skinny, but you would never say that she looked scary under weight. We are trying to put some extra weight on her and will go back for a weight check in a month. If she is not progressing they will start testing to see if there is a reason why.

Georgia's favorite thing to do is to swing. We try to go as often as we can. She will cry when you take her out of the swing. She looks so tiny in it, but it is cute. She is so close to crawling, but usually goes backwards so she then just rolls. Her favorite food is Cheerios. If you pull out the container she will get so excited. Georgia is waving hello to people which is so cute.

She is already starting to tantrum. If you put her down and she doesn't want to be down she will throw her body backwards. In the highchair if you give her food she doesn't want she will slam her body back into the chair. It is funny now, but is a bad sign about what is to come as a toddler.

She is babbling all the time. She is at the stage where she imitates what she hears. If I cough, she coughs. She growls. She tries to make a lot of the same noises that we do. I will try to get a video. They are so funny.

Georgia Grace is still a mommy's girl. She loves to see her daddy when he comes home from work, but as soon as he holds her she gets upset. She starts pushing away from him and trying to get back to me. It is sad, but funny at the same time.

I hate that I can never remember all the things I want to put in here. Georgia does so many cute things during the day and I want to document them, but can't recall them when I need too.

We had to lower her bed since she is starting to pull up. The other night she was not wanting to go to sleep.  Now that she can't look over the bumpers, she figured out how to pull them down and see me. It was so cute and such a fun game.

In case you are wondering, I am giving information from the time of her 9 month mark, not now. She is crawling now but I will comment on that later.

Pumkin Patch

This was the first year we were able to go to our local pumpkin patch. It was so much fun with Georgia. You wouldn't think that an 8 month old would be able to do much there but she had so much fun. They had lots of things for bigger kids to do which is exciting for future years. Georgia got to pet animals, which she loves, swung, played in a giant bin of corn, and played with pumpkins. It was so much fun.

Holding a bunny. This child loves animals

Pigs. I love pigs

It would have been cute if she was wearing her sheep costume

baby goat

her head its a little too small

They had multiple giant bins full of corn. She had so much fun playing in here. She only tried to eat the corn once which was amazing. We went out to eat after we left Tate Farms. When I changed her diaper, I found pieces of corn. When we got home and were undressing her for a bath, we found even more pieces of corn. I don't know where she hides it but she loved that corn.

corn angles

Murder Mystry Dinner

 This October we went to a Murder Mystery dinner with our friend from church. We all dressed up as literary characters. Some people have big speaking parts and others didn't. As you can guess I was a big character. We all had scripts to read and then mingled to find out clues about who killed the King. At the end we made a guess about who did it and found out in a dramatic revealing.
We did group babysitting at another couples house and shared babysitters. We were of course worried about Georgia because she doesn't like strangers well. When we arrived to get her I could hear her crying from outside. It was so nice to walk in and not have the crying come from my child. Georgia did great which is a good sign.

Tom Sawyer and Cinderella

Bashful from Snow White and Little Red Riding hood

Aladdin and Peter Pan
This is the couple who organize the whole event

The white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland and the evil Queen from Snow White
This is the couple who opened their house to us.

Group shot

 As the night unfolded we all made our guesses about who did it, how and why. Each of the characters went around and said a speech telling if they did it or not and why. The organizer would point to us to read our scripts. Everyone else kept going. I started to notice that my sheet was much larger than the rest. Finally, she said my name. It was I, Cinderella. I Killed the King