Georgia is moving fast towards being a toddler. She is full-speed crawling (she looks like a little wind-up toy), sitting up completely independently, and pulling up on EVERYTHING. She is busy, busy, busy. She is moving something at all times, even if it's just her fingers and hands grabbing and pinching at things, which she does all the time. I've already had to sign more "ouch reports" at school than I ever had to for Banks when he was in nursey. She bumps her head on everything because she is so determined to move and climb everything in sight. Gotta keep up with brother!
She is eating lots of different baby foods - still loving oatmeal and yogurt - and puffs and teething crackers. She doesn't have any teeth yet, but we are expecting them any day now, and there's no telling what she's going to eat once she has some chompers. She has finally entered into a little bit of a chunky stage, and I could just eat up her thigh rolls. She went to the doctor yesterday for some allergy/sinus/cold issues, and she weighed 17lbs, 5oz. I'm still nursing her because it just works, and it seems like more of an effort right now to wean than to just keep rolling with it (and also because she doesn't have teeth yet).
She is still super happy, especially as long as someone is giving her attention. She prefers being held (mostly by Momma). She doesn't give away her giggles as freely as Banks did when he was a baby, but when she does giggle, she gives the cutest squeal you've ever heard. She mostly just stares and studies things and when someone is trying to make her laugh, she often gives them this look like, "I'm not impressed." It's actually pretty funny. The thing that makes her laugh the most is still Banks. He can do pretty much anything to her, and she will laugh at him. She thinks he's the greatest thing on Earth. She also can't help bu laugh when we squeeze her thighs or get her belly. We've had to work for it, but we've got her weaknesses figured out now on how to make her giggle. She is now clapping, and attempting to wave. When we say, "yayy Georgia," she immediately gets a huge grin on her face and starts clapping. It is so cute. She is also starting to bop and flap her hands when she hears music or sees/hears a toy that moves and/or makes noise.
Miss Georgia is still a FIGHTER when it comes to sleep. She will fight until she literally can't fight anymore to avoid going to sleep. She is the queen of cat naps during the day, averaging about 20 minutes for most of her naps. She has been tough at night with sleeping too. Just this past week, we initiated sleep boot camp, because the whole week before we were seeing every hour on the clock. Thank goodness for Yiayia still being here with us to take some of the night shifts, but we all determined it was time for some intervention. So last Monday, we started doing her bath as soon as we got done with dinner and putting her down super early (like at 6:30), rather than waiting until Banks' bath and bedtime around 7:30 like we were doing before. We put her down and let her cry for about an hour, going and patting her back and putting her paci back in her mouth every 5-10 minutes. I fed her again after I got Banks down at 8, and then she slept through the night (waking up once and self-soothing back to sleep) for the first time since she was about 6 weeks old. She did really well with this same schedule for the rest of the week, so hopefully we are on to something.
I know she is my child and I'm supposed to think this, but she really is a beautiful baby girl. People constantly tell us that everywhere we go. She has some beautiful blue eyes, even bluer than mine, more like her Nannie's!
