1 year

Wow, My baby is a year old today. At exactly 1:25pm a year ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. I have spent a lot of time around babies and kids, but it has been so cool spending every day with a baby and watching them grow for a year. Watching her grow and develop is so much fun. Everyday is new as she either does something for the first time or gets better with what she can do. Georgia is a very happy baby who loves to talk (wonder where she gets that from), and loves to be around other people. She has fun playing with her friends and being held by mommy and daddy.
Georgia's favorite foods are mac and cheese, yogurt, cheerios, and bananas. She has gotten so much better at eating and usually eats 3 to 4 meals a day, with multiple snacks.  We do not know her weight now, her doctor appointment is in another 2 weeks. I will post her weight then.
She is crawling faster now and is walking behind her walker. It is really cute to see her walk up to the walker, pull up, and start walking. She loves music and will dance for us when the music starts.
She can say: momma, Dada, hi, and doggy. She signs more and all done(at times she repeats my phrases and says them too). She blows kisses and understands a lot of phrases, mainly dealing with food.
She loves her laugh and learn dog toy and look at books. She doesn't want me to read them to her, but to hold them so she can turn the pages. She still loves to pull things out of boxes.
When people talk about little girls being sweet, you fit that perfectly. You have the sweetest little voice and laugh. You love to sleep, but wake up a lot right now because of your teeth. You have 2 teeth that are fully in and 3 that are just cutting through.


Here is the picture we took right before we went left for the hospital.

Here are 2 newborn pictures to see how much she has grown

My sweet little bitty baby

 It is so hard to get Georgia to sit still to take a picture now

Georgia Grace We love you so much and couldn't be prouder parents. You are the sweetest little girl and have made our lives so happy. Happy Birthday!!! Party Pictures to follow later.

True Love

If you have known me for a while, you know I am a picky eater. Something I really hate are bananas. I can't stand the taste, texture, or smell. I get mad when people eat them around me. I refuse to eat fruit salad if bananas are in them because they left banana juice on the other fruit. With all that said, I just spent the past 15 minutes cutting up and feeding Georgia a banana. It was so gross, but she was loving it. I do not mind changing her diapers, but can't stand bananas. Georgia I truly love you, always remember that I cut up your bananas for you.

11 months

Wow, it has taken me a long time to get this post up. I have a had a hard time getting back into the swing of things after the holidays. I am behind on so many things and am trying to get ready for Georgia's bday. I have a lot to get done before the party. I am making most of Georgia's decorations so I still have work to do.
11 months, wow. Since I am writing this so late we only have 2 weeks until she turns 1. I was thinking back to this time last year, we were trying to get her to come out. Robert and I wanted today to be her birthday, so it would be 1/11/11, but she had other plans.
She is so much fun right now, with a little bit of attitude. She loves to play with so many things. She got new toys for Christmas, and I would have to say her favorite toy is her toy dog and the cups from her picnic basket.
She loves to talk and babble. She has started to say dada. She now calls everything dada. I notice a difference in the way she says it to Robert, but he doesn't. She says hi and waves. It is so cute to see her in the high chair and she starts waving and says "hi" in her cute little girl voice. She is also signing all done.
We do not know how much she weighs, but we did just have to move up to size 3 diapers. She has averaged a size diaper for 6 months. I am hoping we will not have to move to size 4 before I can completely potty train her.
She still only has 2 teeth showing, but has been teething for a while and we can see 3 top teeth about to come in. I am ready for teething to be over. It is not fun for either of us. She wakes up all night long and I have a harder time falling back asleep than she does.
Her motor skills have gotten so much better. It is amazing to see what all she can get into and reach now. She is not wanting to walk and will not be doing it by her birthday, but that is ok. She will eventually get it.
Her favorite food is yogurt, cheerios, and most breads. We have started giving her breast milk from a sippy cup. She does fine with it, but she just doesn't drink a lot. She does not like real fruit, the texture bothers her.
Trying to get these pictures was so hard. She moves all over the place. She can reach so many more things and has no fear. We love Georgia Grace sooooo much and enjoy every day with her. She makes me smile, laugh, and truly enjoy life like never before.

 She loves bath time. Notice all the toys in tub. She barely fits.

1st Christmas

This year we got to spend Christmas with My family. We got up there on Friday afternoon and both my brothers were already in town. We had a great dinner and then my oldest brother and I had plans with our friends. We went over to my friend Sarah's house who has a 3 year old son. Last year when we were all over there they were listening to my stomach with a stethoscope to try to hear Georgia. Sarah was scaring me with her birth story. It was very different this year. Luca and Georgia had so much fun playing together. Luca wanted to help put Georgia to bed and was sad to hear she wouldn't be there when he got up.

 My friend Natalie got Georgia a gift, her first present

 a cute Christmas book, we did not have one. Thanks Nat

 Luca had a drinkable  yogurt and Georgia wanted it

 He would share with her. It was the cutest thing. They kept going back and forth. We put Georgia to sleep in Sarah's room and we got to stay late. It was so much fun seeing my friends again. I unfortunately did not get any pictures of the adults. Weird how your focus changes when you have kids.

 Christmas eve in front of the tree. Georgia is wearing the dress my mom made for me when I was a baby. I wish I knew how to smock

 My Grandmother has made all of our stockings. I love these stockings. It means so much to me that she was able to make one for Georgia and Miller. I need to learn how to do this to carry on the tradition.

 After we put the big kids to sleep the babies were still up. Georgia was playing in this box for a very long time and never tried to get out. It was so cute.

 Georgia's first interaction with what Santa brought her

 The Vraciu's and there Santa toys. Emma is wearing the dress up clothes we gave her from the night before. We always open one present on Christmas eve and both of the big kids opened our presents. Emma had so much fun in the dress up clothes. I can't wait until Georgia gets to that stage.

 All the toys santa brought Georgia. He knows kids. He brought her Puffs, and bath toys. He seems to always throw that stinkin orange in the stocking.

 All the kids in their matching PJs

 Our family on Georgia's first Christmas

 This Year we decided to make a cake in honor of Jesus' birthday. We sang "Happy Birthday" to him and the kids blew out candles. I love this. I plan on doing this every year for our kids.

 This girl loves boxes

WARNING!!!WARNING!!!WARNING!!!WARNING!!!WARNING!!!WARNING!!!WARNING!!

You are about to see child pornography, or just two naked babies in a tub. We were discussing how having pictures like this on your phone or computer can get you in trouble now. It think it is stupid that I brother can't have a picture of his niece and nephew in the bathtub. Owell, it is my baby and I will post it if I want to. The only thing cuter than one naked baby is two. Dont worry you can't see anything.

Miller and Georgia are playing with her new bath toys that Santa and Mommy and Daddy gave her. They had so much fun together.

We had such a great trip getting to see my family and friends. Georgia had a great first Christmas.

Tis the Season

Robert and I love the Holiday Season. We love to go get a real tree and make an evening out of it. We play lots of Christmas music, get festive drinksm and decorate the tree and house. We love going around to see all the Christmas lights and enjoy everything about this time of year. We hope to pass this passion on to our kids. We always go to a couple of annual Christmas parties. It was different this year having Georgia. We had my parents come down to watch her for Robert's work party, but took her to the rest. She did really well around everyone and we actually brought her pack-in-play to one of the party's so we could stay later. Here are a few pictures from this season.

 Georgia playing with lights

 Her new best friend Santa. I think we will ask him to babysit

Robert and I love going to Hockey games. We usually get a big group together and go to a couple of games a year. Georgia got to go to her first game the other week. We usually buy the cheap tickets and sit at the top. Half way through the game, my friend who used to be the mascot, ran into someone who works there and he let all of us move down to a floor level box on the ice. It was sooo much fun. Georgia loved being that close. I loved the free popcorn.

 Started at the top

 End of the game. Georgia was banging on the ice!!

Two weekends ago we went to Robert's work party. This is always fun because we have a lot of friends who work at Robert's company.

 Lindsay and Rob

 Yes we are in a John Deer sleigh

 Our group

Right before Thanksgiving, one of our friends has an annual White Trash Turkey Bash. You are supposed to dress up as white trash and then we fry everything we can find. It is so much fun. It is also fun to see how the group grows. The first year no kids, last year 1 kid. This year, four kids. Let's see how we keep multiplying

 Georgia is chasing a dollar attached to a fishing line

 For those of you who don't live in Alabama, I promise this is not how we usually dress.

Starting young with the Busch Beer.

This is me when I was a baby with a beer can. The funny thing is I hate beer.

 This is from a Christmas party with all our friends

 We do a dirty Santa. A few gifts get regifted every year. This is the annual buddha bank. I got the rubber chicken

Annual cookie exchange with the Sunday school girls

Georgia even has her own pink tree in her room!

Merry Christmas everyone

10 months

I can't believe my baby is in double digits now. She is getting bigger and bigger to me (even though she isn't growing). I can't believe we have less than 2 months until she turns one.
We had to go back and do a weight check up on Georgia and she lost 3 ounces because of being sick. She now weighs 14 lbs 9 ounces and is not on the growth chart. We are working hard to get her weight up, giving bottles after nursing and giving her fatty food like grilled cheese sandwiches. Georgia's favorite foods are: cheerios, most kinds of bread, cheese, and anything sweet. She will eat fruit baby food, but won't eat real fruit. We are working on it, I think it is a texture thing. We keep our cheerios in old puff containers for easy access. Georgia will see one and crawl right over to it. She will attempt to put the bottle in her mouth and then gets mad when she gets no food. She will also sign more in her highchair when looking at the bottle.
Georgia is crawling now and taking a few steps with a walking toy. She says momma, waves high and bye, blows kisses, and signs more. It think she says hi too, but not 100% sure if she really knows what it means or is just repeats me.
She loves to play and pull all toys or laundry out of a bin. She loves to read and look at books. Pat the Bunny is her favorite book right now. We sing a lot before bed and she cuddles up with me, I love it. She is really attached to her blanket. I bought 4 lovies for her, so I could switch them out when they got dirty and she doesn't care about them.
Georgia is a very happy baby and loves to be around other kids. She still loves to swing, but we don't get to do it as often since it got cold. She still tantrums when she doesn't get what she wants or we take something away from her that she is not supposed to have. I just read a post my friend wrote on her blog about her toddler throwing fits, and I can only imagine how bad Georgia's will be.
She is not napping as good any more. I hear her in there talking and playing. When I have walked in she is standing up playing with something.
She is our beautiful peach and we love her more and more every day.

 It is so hard to get a mobile baby to sit still for a picture

This was too cute, she just lay her head down

 Happy baby!

This is a video of Georgia reading her book. I try to get videos of all the cute stuff she does, but when she sees the camera she stops.

Thankfulness

This Thanksgiving was Georgia's first big holiday to spend with the family and it almost didn't happen. Starting the Sunday before Thanksgiving, she woke up from her afternoon nap with fever of 102. During the night she required multiple snuggles. Around 2 am I woke up and started getting sick from both ends. I told Robert he had to stay home from work and help take care of Georgia. We took her to the doctor in the morning and they found nothing wrong with her. In the parking lot on the way home Robert started throwing up. The rest of the day was the most miserable thing for all of us. Robert and I were so dehydrated it hurt just laying there. We knew our plans to leave to next day for his mom's weren't going to happen. On Tuesday Robert and I started to feel better, Georgia was still sick. By Wednesday at noon Georgia had been fever free for almost 24 hours so we thought we could head down to Jackson, BIG MISTAKE. All Wednesday night Georgia woke up screaming and I could do nothing to make her better. She hadn't been eating well since she got sick, but you can never tell with a breastfed baby how much they get. On Thanksgiving she woke up with a dry diaper and a rash. I knew we had to go get her checked out. We went to a walk in clinic that proceeded to torture my child, aka run multiple tests. They told us her platelet count was very low and because of her dehydration they were sending us to the hospital. As soon as we got to the hospital the nurses were all concerned about her. They drew more blood (torture) and catheterized her to get a urine sample. I had to stand over her and hold her down. It was the hardest thing I have ever watched. Tears were rolling down my face and mixing with hers on the bed. When they finally hooked the IV up she was so tired she passed out on me. By the end of the IV, I could already tell she was better. She is doing much better now and is back to normal. This was a Thanksgiving were I truly had a lot to be thankful for. Unfortunately at the end of our trip we seemed to pass on the virus to Robert's mom, and niece and nephew.