Big day!

The last couple days have been just a lot of fun. The days that its easy to be a mom. Georgia is happy (although not sleeping great), she is talking up a storm. She is getting to the age where she is learning so many new words that sometimes I don't even know what she is saying! Her personality just is shining through, and she is so goofy and curious and stubborn all at the same time.

Right before her nap, Dave and Georgia and I were all upstairs, and I was about to change her diaper and put her in bed. She started yelling, "badaba out-ide!, badaba, badaba!" Dave and I were just giving each other inquisitive looks, trying to figure out what she was saying. "Do you want to go outside?" "No." And all of a sudden she just leaves the room and goes downstairs, yelling, "badaba!" and then I remember. Spiders. She usually calls spiders "spadaba". When she comes back upstairs we ask her, "are there spiders outside?" "Yes!" She has inherited her moms hatred of those 8-legged creatures.

I have been preparing her for our move back to California. Pretty much all I've told her is that we're going to go on a plane in a couple weeks and live nearby Grandma, Grandpa and French Fry. I didn't really think she caught on until the last couple of days. She will see an airplane and will immediately shout out, "Fry! Nana! Baba! Plane!" And I reassure her that yes, we will see French Fry in a couple weeks ;)

This morning she was running around naked. She actually does this quite a bit. (don't all kids like to be naked?) I had gone upstairs to change and she was calling me and I went back downstairs to find that she had peed (just a little) on the couch, and now was sitting on her little potty. I reminded her gently that next time she needs to pee in the potty, and I went back upstairs. Well, two minutes later I hear her yelling, "poop!" and I come running downstairs. She is in the kitchen. No poop. Thankfully. She then tells me, "potty!" and I go with her to her potty. And its full! She had actually peed in her potty. This is the first time its happened, although we've had lots of naked time the last month or so. She seems to have the worlds biggest bladder (no joke - will only pee once a day, during her nap). Ok... now that you know way more about her bladder than you need to, isn't it just fun? A little girl that is learning to pee on the potty. We got to call (and wake up) her Aunt Kate to share the good news. I'm sure Kate was thrilled with her 1am wakeup call.

Lastly, a video from last night. In order to get her to eat a little more (short attention span and doesn't want to sit at the table for more than 10 minutes), we read books to her after Dave and I are done eating. She can read her numbers, and knows all her animal names. And her colors. I know I'm her mom, but isn't she just cute?

Adventures of travling with a toddler

Georgia has now been on 8 trans-Atlantic flights (the shortest of which is 8 hours long). She has been on 21 flights altogether (I hope I'm counting right) and has visited 4 countries. She is also an expert train/bus/tube traveler as we live in London and don't have a car.

Honestly, she does pretty good. She does. The hardest thing about traveling with her is the jet lag. When we finally get to where we're going - 17 hours door to door when we fly from London to Los Angeles - then we have an 8 hour time difference, meaning that our little angel wakes up at 3 in the morning for the first few mornings we're in our new time zone. And on the way home, we have just the opposite - a tired toddler who refuses to sleep until 3am.

Some things that make airline flights more do-able:
1) have a seat for Georgia. She is not yet 2, meaning that she does not need her own seat on the plane. We have not yet bought her a seat. Although - when flying internationally, we have to pay taxes for her. It ends up costing about 10% of an adult ticket. We have gotten very lucky when flying though, and often ask when we check in and when we get to the gate if there is an extra seat on the plane and try to rearrange our seats so that we can have three seats for the three of us. This works for us more than half of the time. Other times, the plane is full, so we just have to live with having Georgia on our laps.

2) we take the car seat with us. Part of this is because we will need it when we arrive in our destination. But, it is also nice to have on the plane. Poor Dave lugs it through the airport (it probably weighs 30 pounds), and we can set it up on the plane if we have an extra seat. We bought a car seat that was very narrow so that it fits on the plane seats. We can use it when we need to just have a break. Put her in the carseat, give her a book or the ipod and she is ready to go!

3) We fly economy plus. More legroom is a bonus

4) We try to strategically plan which seats we have. When flying from Chicago to Los Angeles, our flight was supposed to be at 7pm. It left late - around 9 or 10, meaning we didn't get into LA until close to midnight. I was really worried about how that was going to be with Georgia, but it ended up being one of the best flights we've taken with her! The reason for that was we were in the very front of the plane. No one was in front of us. We had a good 3 feet between our seats and the wall. Georgia fell asleep in my arms and I was able to make a bed for her using the pillows and blankets and she slept on the floor for over an hour of the flight.

5) Lots of toys/books/electronics. When flying I bring the biggest bag possible. I have to admit its a pain. But, it makes the flight much easier. I brought little tubs of playdough. Coloring books, crayons, magic markers (the ones that only work on the specific paper), sticker books, books, ipod, ipad, and Georgia's baby doll. And lots of food. Because Georgia doesn't have a seat, they don't give her food. And on an 8+ hour flight, that is a long time to go without eating! So I pack yogurts, cereal, fruit, a cup for milk (flight attendants will give you milk before take off if you ask them!), and lots of snack type things. Pretty much, the more things I have with me, the better! It is sure a hassle to try to take things in and out of the bag, and keep it organized, but having lots of things to play with makes for a happier toddler.

6) Walking the aisles. When all else fails, Dave and I take turns walking up and down the aisles with her. I doubt the other passengers like this - Georgia is so social that she loves tapping on everyone's legs and saying "Hi!" to them, even when they're sleeping. But, you have to admit that people would prefer to have a happy child on the plane with them, rather than one that is crying.

7) Dealing with jet lag: Pretty much nothing I can do about it! It just sucks. There are those miracle children who sleep whenever and wherever. I don't have one of them! Georgia has a very good body clock and it wakes her up at 8am, British time. That means that even if it is 3am in California, and she only slept 6 hours that night and is exhausted from traveling the day before.... well.... she's up anyways! Honestly I don't know how to deal with jet lag other than realizing that it will not last forever. We try to put her down for naps when she is tired, and we try to encourage sleep by keeping the room dark and quiet. We've even tried to drug her (benedryl) which I honestly couldn't tell if it worked or not. The other tip is to sleep when your child is sleeping! When we landed in Chicago and I put Georgia to bed at 6pm, I also went straight to bed because I assumed she would be up bright and early. Well, I was correct, and we all woke up at 4am. The only way I survived those first few days was by going to bed right around the time that Georgia fell asleep.

8) certain ages are easier to deal with than others. When your child is an infant 0-5 months, travel is relatively easy. The child sleeps relatively easily, just drinks milk, and doesn't need any entertaining. We found the most difficult trip with Georgia when she was 11 months old. She was just starting to walk, hated to be confined, and her attention span didn't last more than 1 or 2 minutes. She didn't quite understand TV or ipads yet, so had a lot of trouble entertaining her. This last trip, at 18 months was the easiest one we've had yet. Georgia was easily entertained by the ipad and the TV on the flight. She also understands that she is tired and doesn't fight sleep quite as much. Honestly, I cannot wait until she is 5 or 6! I will be so excited to just sit back and relax while she reads a book or watches a movie on her own. Now that will be the life!

21 months

I have to say that this month has just flown by. Surprising! Coming back from a month of vacations, I expected this month to drag by, but the weather has been nice and warmish, and we have been able to enjoy the Olympics and be outside quite a bit.

I'm smiling just like Georgia... when she does her goofy smile

Weight: 27.2 pounds
Height: Somewhere between 35 and 36 inches. Measured by myself at home.... doesn't work too great with a wiggly toddler!
Shoes: size 7

This month was a little unusual for us - Georgia had a lot of babysitters! Dave and I went to two Olympic events, and we left Georgia one day for 8 hours, and the other day for 5 or so. Another day, Dave and I ventured into the city and left Georgia with another friend for 4 hours. She actually has done amazingly - according to our friends she doesn't cry at all (okay, only when one of them put her in bed.... and that was only for a minute or two!).

Georgia and Annabelle at the park

We also started doing some night weaning. We had a couple nights in a row where I was gone in the evening and Dave put her in bed using a cup of warm milk. She actually did great and started sleeping through the night! We have been putting her in bed now with milk (instead of nursing) for about 3 weeks. She seems to be doing great and actually sleeps a whole lot better (my favorite part about this month!)

Her favorite word this last week has been "NO!" which is usually directed at some unknowing child on the playground. Sharing is not one of her strengths. That "No!" has come in handy though, for example, when an older kid was trying to give her an unwanted hug.

So proud of how full her mouth is (well, it isn't really, in this picture....) 

Georgia had her first sentence this month! She said, "More peach" and I started jumping up and down with joy! Since then she has been using a lot of two words together, and even a couple times has used three words together. Her vocabulary is growing by 5+ words a day and will often try to say any words that Dave or I use. Another phrase she said this morning was, "Bee! hold me!" when she saw a gnat flying around the kitchen. (She is terrified of bugs). I estimate her vocabulary to be at 150 words right now.

Tantrums are right around the corner for us. Georgia is quickly becoming very opinionated (did I mention she is strong-willed?) and will either shout "No" at us when we want her to do something she doesn't want to do, or will break down and cry. Its very difficult for her to sit in her highchair for all of dinner and she had a couple minute cry during the middle of dinner last night when we wouldn't let her get down.

She has been using her own name tons! She uses it when she wants to do something by herself (with no help from mom or dad) or when she wants to play with a toy that someone else is playing with. She will go up to the child and wait for a minute, then say, "Georgia" and then try to take the toy. Its like she's asking if they can share with her. I'm thankful she is nice about it, but most of the time the other child isn't too happy to share with her.

An example of a tantrum. She wanted to go walk to see the ducks and mom wanted to take a picture. 

Georgia knows about four shapes by name (heart, oval, circle and triangle) and more often than not she can name the correct colors of things (she knows yellow things, sometimes gets the other colors right). She also knows probably 4 letters: M, K, T, D. She doesn't know those by name, but rather the M is for Mommy and the K for Kate or Ky, likewise the T for Teresa or Tim.

Singing Songs

Georgia has a love of music, which is really fun for everyone who spends time with her because she will often break out in song.  One of her favorite songs is "The Wheels on the Bus". She inserts people/animals/things into the song. 

For example: "The Matt on the bus goes talk, talk, talk," or she might say "The baby on the bus goes eat, eat, eat". She is very peculiar about what it is we're singing about and the action they're doing. Some of her more unusual ones include, "The neck on the bus goes tickle, tickle, tickle" and "The oatmeal on the bus goes eat, eat, eat" It is a fun song to sing because most of the verses include people: Matt, Kyan, Nana, Baba, Kate, Avery, Annabelle, Nathan, Georgia, Mama, Dada, and the list can go on and on.

She is also getting really good at her ABCs. She has always loved the tune - she started singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star many months ago. Most of the time there weren't words in it.... just the tune. And then she substituted one word in the song: Mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy, etc (sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle). And then she did the same with Daddy. Now she sings the ABCs. Here is a video of that. Its a little noisy. I took it in the car, and I couldn't let her see my phone otherwise she would stop singing. This was taken about a month ago, and you can imagine how much better she is at it now!

20 months

Sorry this is a couple days late. We have had a month of vacations and only got back home a couple days ago. I have to say that Georgia is a wonderful traveler - she completed her 4th round trip international flight! Honesty, I don't think we could ask any more of her. I will have to have a blog post soon about traveling (especially flights) with her.

Georgia loves dogs!

Weight: 27 pounds
Height: 34.5 or 35 inches (95% still)
Clothing: 24 months or 2T, some 3T (but they're big on her)
Teeth: still waiting on 2-year molars. I think they're beginning to bother her as she's been chewing on her hands, and has seemed to have a bit of trouble sleeping on occasion (although it could be travel-related, too).

Sleep: This one has been all over the place because of traveling. Most nights she was waking up 3-4 times.  I really hate jet lag. Georgia really suffers from it and has trouble sleeping at night when we travel. Naps though are usually quite long.

She loves climbing! Daddy said he didn't help her very much... he only worked as a spotter

Nursing: I am so glad that I am still nursing Georgia. Really, I have no clue what I'd do if I wasn't. We mostly nurse at night, and it helps calm her down and put her back to sleep when she is jet lagged. I mean, what else are you supposed to do when your child is waking up at midnight, 2am, 3am, 5am and you're staying in a hotel in a random city? Once she settles back to the right time zone, I am going to start the process of weaning her.

Her first time wearing a life vest! We went on a boat while in Wisconsin this month

Talking: It is amazing the changes she has made this past month. It is so fun seeing her grow in this area. When she is getting ready for bed, she has started to talk more and more to me (as we nurse). She often says peoples names as if she is remembering her day - who she saw, what she did. She is quite funny and we're starting to have conversations. For example, she'll fart and then say "diaper" (her word to tell us that something is going on down there) and I'll say "that's okay! everyone farts". Then she'll say, "daddy?" and I will reply, "yes, daddy farts." She'll think for a minute then say, "nana?" and I'll say, "yes, nana farts". This goes on and on until she lists everyone she knows.

Georgia kept asking Kyan to jump with her

Memory: I am continually shocked at how good Georgia's memory is. She remembers her friend Avery who used her potty seat way back the beginning of June. In the Wallaces neighborhood, there is a house that has a few goats. There are two different ways to get to the Wallaces house, and she knew when we were on the street with the goats and would ask about them.

We had a lot of pool time in California

Favorite things: Georgia is still a people person. She loves making new friends and now learns names quickly. In the morning when she wakes up she asks about her friends. When she draws pictures, she tells us she is drawing specific people. The other thing she just absolutely loves right now is climbing and jumping. She jumps off stairs, jumps off couches and chairs. She can climb into her highchair. She knows how to use the cargo net at the park.

playing in the water in California

19 months

Well, another month has crept up on me. This month was crazy busy, Dave being on a work trip, Jon & Gail visiting, and my brother visiting. Georgia is talking up a storm and testing every limit possible.

Weight: 26.4 pounds
Height: 34.5 inches (I think.... I'll have to double-check this later)
Shoe size: She has mostly outgrown the 6's that she has and is wearing 7s now.

Language: Her word development continues to explode! She now tries to say anything you ask her to say. She is very good with names - making names for people she meets and remembering their names at a later time. Some new words this month: sugar, turkey, rock, up, down, boat, stop, go, milk, ice cream. Estimated words: 75

Eating/Sleeping: She is loving fruit! Watermelon, peaches, and raspberries are always a hit with her! Sleeping: She has slept through the night a handful of times this month. The other nights, she is usually up once around 4am. Still not quite sure why.... I usually end up changing her diaper and giving her just a little bit of milk. She will then sleep until 7:30 or later (8:30 this morning!). She does 1-nap a day, for anywhere from 1.5 hours to 3 hours long.

Activity: She is learning to run very fast! Now she bolts the opposite direction when we're on walks. She loves TV (unfortunately...) and will occasionally watch it while I do some cleaning up or showering. Her favorite toys are puzzles, and she loves going to the park. Usually her first words when she wakes up are "walk?" or "Park!". She also knows the directions to the park and will get upset if we go the wrong way or towards the park that doesn't have a playground. She has learned how to climb into her highchair by herself.

Memory: I am amazed at how much she remembers. For example: a little friend of hers used her potty about a month ago, and for about 3 weeks every time she saw the potty she said her friends name as if to remind me that her friend used her potty. She also knows that tomorrow, Gail, Jon, Matt and Kyan are coming to visit. I told her about a week ago and everyday she asks about them. She can also name all four of them if you were to ask her who will come visit us.

Other stuff: We had our first experience with a poopy diaper off in her crib... fun...
Speaking of diapers, she doesn't leave them on anymore. I have to put pants or underpants on over her diaper. She likes trying to up and down our stairs without help.

1.5 years old!

Georgia is now 18 months old! I know I say this every month, but boy, does time really fly! This month, we have been busy doing nothing much. Dave has been home for a couple weeks straight now (yay!) and we've settled back into a routine. Our terrible month of weather continued into this month (making it about 6 straight weeks of below-average temperatures and record amounts of rain), and the last week or so the sun has finally made it out! I think Georgia's a little confused going outside without a jacket!

Weight: Around 25.5 pounds
Height: Maybe 34 inches? If so... 95th percentile
Diapers: size 4+ mostly
Shoes: moving into size 6. She went through her size 5 in 2 months!

Language: She is showing a lot of interest in letter themselves. We have several toys with letters and she asks for their name and sound. A couple times she has found the "M" and says "mama!", so even though she doesn't know the letter itself, she can memorize the shape with the word I told her. She is also starting to talk in sentences and not in words. (not that we can understand what she's saying, yet!). She learned quite a few new words this month including "ra" (walk), bus, nat-nums (oatmeal), girl (she points to people and asks, "girl?" and I think she's trying to figure out who are girls and who are boys)

Food/Sleeping: Not much change from previous months. She is still waking early, around 5:30-6 AM or so, but then will fall back asleep until 7:30-8. Its not bad, but I do wish she slept through. I think a lot of this has to do with the sunlight. The sun rises here before 5, and it starts getting light around 4:30. Georgia has been eating a lot! I think she went through a growth spurt, and she would tell me she was hungry all throughout the day. Her picky-ness levels have gone down and she eats everything we eat.

Activities: We have kept busy by going to many parks this month. I save our old bread and we go feed the ducks often. Georgia tried (for the first time) finger painting (which she loved!). With the nice weather the last week, we have been able to play out in the backyard, and I had a redneck pool - I just filled up a storage bin with a couple inches of water. Georgia's other favorite activity is wrestling. She loves rough and tumble play. Playing chase, scaring her, playing hide and seek are all very fun to her.

Other skills: She has been very interested in steps. She loves going up and down, holding our hands. If there are only one or two steps, she will be brave and try them on her own. She also loves taking her doll out on walks. She knows the way to the park and will cry if we leave home and turn the other way (towards the grocery store).

Firsts: This last week, the weather was so nice, we braved a trip to the outdoor pool in the area. It was Georgia's first time in a pool! She was very unsure about everything at first, but then absolutely loved jumping from the side into the water. When we got home, she took one of her longest naps ever :)  Last night, we went over to a friends house and she "jumped" on the trampoline. I think actually, all the older kids bounced her up and down, but I have never heard her giggle so much!

Wrestling with daddy

17 months old!

Well, we almost have a 1 1/2 year old living in our house. It is amazing how quickly time flies. This month was rather difficult for a couple reasons. We had a vacation to the Netherlands the beginning of the month, and it ruined the streak of good sleeping that we had going. That, combined with teething (the canine teeth) and also dropping her morning nap (most of the time), have made life a little more difficult than normal. Also, Dave was gone almost 3 out of the 4 weeks on work trips. And it was cold and rainy, keeping us housebound for many days on end.

Weight: 24.6 pounds
Height: 33ish inches

Words: learning more and more all the time! New words: bus, squirrel, "k" for kate, girl, Matt, "T" for Tim, baba for Grandpa Hall, up, down and probably quite a few more that I can't think of! Her favorite word is "NO!" which she says quite enthusiastically while doing something she knows she shouldn't do.

We play with this little guy one day a week. Georgia's first boyfriend ;)

Teeth: She now has 15 teeth (I think.....). This month she got 3 out of the 4 canine teeth. She was teething practically the whole month, with those teeth coming in about one every week. The last one still has not made an appearance.

My little girl loves to dance!

Fashion: Georgia loves picking out her own clothes and shoes! I will often pick out two outfits and let her choose which one she wants to wear. The clothes she likes the most are the pinkest/frilliest, or the ones that have animals on them. She loves wearing shoes and will bring me different shoes to put on throughout the day. Her favorite shoes are her rain boots and her shoes with cats on them.

Grandpa Wallace visited us for 1 day. G is giving him a goodnight kiss here

Sleep: We had another rough month. She was sleeping through the night before we left for the Netherlands, and then being overtired and the 4am parties out in the street below our hotel woke her up a few nights in a row. Add into that mix some rough teething, and she was waking up 2+ times a night again. The last couple nights have been better, and I think we're heading back to sleeping through the night.

This month was a challenge with naps. One nap wasn't enough for her. She was exhausted and overtired, causing nighttime sleep to be poor. But two naps was too much for her. She would have parties in her crib for 1+ hour before falling asleep. She was cranky and irritable. She has finally seemed to settle into the 1-nap-a-day schedule. She has been sleeping from right after lunch until around 3pm. She is finally not overtired any more, but still is tired in the morning and not quite used to having to stay awake a full 5 hours before naptime!

16 months

This month, Georgia has been an absolute joy. Last month was definitely a phase - not sleeping, challenging, exhausting. This month has been the complete opposite! We had some time at home - a couple weeks between Dave's trips. We decided to do a little sleep training. For a couple nights I fed Georgia less and less milk in the middle of the night when I'd go into her. Then Dave would go in instead of me. Then one night she slept straight until 4am. The next night she slept until 4:30. If she was a good temperature and her diaper was dry, I would try not to go into her at all. One night she cried/sleep-talked for about 30 minutes. That was all. She started sleeping through the night! Its still not every night, but in the last two weeks she has slept through the night probably 9 times and the other nights only woken up once.

Weight: 24.4 pounds (first gain in a while)
Height: 33 inches (above 90%.... hahaha!)

Diapers: size 4... starting to do a little potty training! She has been telling me when she needs a diaper change, so I bought a potty 3 months ago. She hated it until a couple weeks ago, and now everytime she goes into the bathroom she tries to sit on it. So, I'm doing "light" potty training. When she wakes up from a nap or we have a little time, we'll go sit on the potty. The rest of the time she wears diapers. She's peed on the potty 3 times. After Easter I think I might do some more official potty training and see what happens.

Words: imitating/copying words a lot. Not sure how many she's "learning" enough to remember and use appropriately. Some new words are: no, Nathan (uh-uh), "baba" which can mean blueberry, grapes or other fruits, "t" for Uncle Tim, papa for Grandpa, buba for bubbles. She has also learned quite a few animal noises and the names of several animals. Cat is pronounced much better - "at" and she knows cows go "moo" and she can make a monkey noise.

In other news, she has been eating (mostly) gluten-free the last month. She had a patch of eczema that wouldn't clear up for 2 month prior. She was also getting sick all.the.time. (which might be completely normal for a toddler in the wintertime). She wasn't sleeping well. Since going gluten-free, she seems to have more energy (lucky me!), hasn't been sick once, is gaining weight, and started sleeping through the night. I know this doesn't mean for sure she's gluten-intolerant, but I think we will keep her gluten-free for a while longer and then re-introduce gluten one more time to see what the reaction is.

Georgia is becoming a girly-girl. I will often give her choices of clothes to pick out, and most of the time she will pick out whatever is the prettiest or has the most ruffles and sparkles. She loves shoes and will bring them to me throughout the day to put on and take off.

Georgia has been singing a lot lately! And by singing I mean humming. Her favorite songs are Row, Row, Row Your Boat, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and If you're Happy and You Know It. She asks for these songs throughout the day and knows all the motions. She can hum most of Twinkle Twinkle all by herself and a couple times hits most of the notes!

The last thing I should mention is her activity level. She just never stops! (unless she finds a cell phone or laptop!). She goes down the big-girl slide at the park all by herself (the picture above is of the little kid slide). She is starting to run. She loves playing soccer. She can walk all the way to the park by herself (probably 1/3 a mile). She pushes her baby doll in the stroller on walks. She is climbing on top of everything - standing on top of chairs, highchairs, couches, etc. She seems to have no fear and will probably be covered in bruises and scrapes the next few months.

15 months

I have to admit this month has been the most challenging (yet!) for me! I'm not sure if its because Dave has been out of town or if the dreary British winter is beginning to wear on me, or if this is just a challenging phase.  That being said, we've been dealing with lots of sleepless days and nights the last couple weeks. Georgia has been sick quite a bit, she also received 4 molars. Dave had 2 weeks of work trips out of the last month, but was thankfully home on the weekends. My brother Tim visited for two nights (a long layover) and also brought some American goodies to us (Velveeta...yummm)

Georgia had her first "haircut" which was a trim of the long straggly part at the back

Weight: 23.4 pounds
Height: 32 inches
Diapers: size 4
Teeth: 12 - has 8 front teeth and 4 molars
New words: bear (her stuffed animal), bye bye (she says very well now), this (when pointing to things), thank you (said clear as day once, but never repeated), Georgia (she says, "Bye, bye, Georgia!" just like everyone else says to her!), blueberries (her new favorite food), hello (when pretending to talk on the phone)

Tired.... right as she started getting sick

When she hasn't been sick and the weather is nice, we go on daily walks to the park. We had a real cold spell the beginning of the month - temperatures below freezing or just above. We had snow twice (yay!) but unfortunately Georgia was a bit sick so we went on a walk to show her the snow, but she wasn't as enthusiastic as I had hoped. The last couple days the temperature has warmed up and the days are getting longer and the playground is very full!

Georgia has begun ignoring most of her books and toys. She loves pulling everything out of the cabinets and climbing up on the sofas (and also jumping off). Her favorite toy is our iPods or iPhones. She has learned how to work them and has her favorite apps - the ones specifically for her and anything that makes music. She also is "addicted" to dogs. She asks multiple times a day to look at dogs on the computer. When I need her to stay put or be entertained for a bit, we'll watch YouTube videos with dogs and/or babies.

Uncle Tim holding a sick baby

Sleep has..... well.... has not been happening lately. I honestly don't know what's going on. Georgia recently began refusing to nap. She still seems just as tired, but will cry/talk/play with her dolls for 1-2 hours. In fact, she seems overtired, and will fall asleep in our arms and then cry and awaken once she hits the crib. We've never had this problem before - she's always been able to settle down and put herself to sleep. She has taken only one nap most of the days last week, and most of those naps were only 30 minutes long. This is a drastic change from the beginning of the month when she was taking two naps a day for a total of usually around 3 hours. Sleep at night hasn't been any better. She is waking up a minimum of two times a night, and most nights its more like 3 or 4 times a night. Needless to say we are all exhausted (and a little grumpy).

Reading in her bedroom

Mealtimes have definitely improved! She has been throwing food much less and eating a little bit more. I don't worry about it as much, and she seems to be happier. She currently loves blueberries and asks for them all the time.

Jumping on the couch

We are still breastfeeding, and it is getting a bit ridiculous as Georgia has to be holding her baby doll and bear, while we breastfeed. Yes, there are now 4 of us in the chair ;)

I am a little biased... but I think she's beautiful!