Pictures

So this weekend we decided to take Gigi to have her picture taken at Picture people at the mall. We havent had any done since her first bday around Easter! Shes walking now! so much has changed. I actually started tearing up when the women was showing us our photos. My baby has grown so much. I swear it feels like just yesterday they handed a brand new baby to me in the hospital. shes almost 17 months! thats crazy. I can not believe it.

So here are some that I took offline. it has the zazzle in front of it but you get the idea.

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they asked that this one be placed in their baby contest! how cute!

and thats what we like to call "a redheaded attitude" ladies and gents! some say she gets this from her mama, not sure what they mean. ;)

notice the clinched fists! hahaha (by the way, this happened b/c someone told her NO!)

having another "1st time mom" moment...

Ok so yesterday I came home from work and my mom mentioned this rash on Gigi's back. It had been there a few days but it looked like heat rash which she gets all the time in the summer cause her skin is so pale and sensetive. Dont worry, tom and I took her temp all week to make sure this wasnt some illness with a rash as a symptom. she was fine other then this rash but since it wasnt going away i called the doctor. At 4 pm on a friday evening. opps. but they were able to fit her in. so in we went. they weighed her and she is FINALLY over 20 lbs! all my fattening up WORKED. anyways back to my point. it was NOT a rash apparently but just a bad flare up on her ezema. boo i hate this stuff. so he gave us some meds and sent us on our way. HOWEVER before we left i voiced my concern. here is my overreacting 1st time mommy moment....
Georgia is 16 months and will NOT say Mama. She knows who I am. If someone asks her "where is Mommy or Mama" she will look for me. But other then that I am DADA just like tom. If tom is in the room with her and I leave the room she will call for me "DADAAAAA DADAAAAA DADA!" even with tom sitting there. One day I decided I was determined to get her to say it and I would have her look at me and say "Gigi can you say MAMA" and the lil turd actually shook her head no. I couldnt believe it. Im not sure WHY i couldnt believe it cause that is just like her, little stubborn self. And I cant be mad cause shes just like me. haha
So I asked the doctor if it was something we should worry about. But when i explained it to him about her actually saying NO when i asked her to do it he just laughed and said its her little way having an attitude. she knows we want her to say it so shes not going to. fabulous! that proves that she IS just like me. we are in for some serious trouble if thats the case. hehe
He said as long as shes speaking about 10 words then there is nothing to worry about. So, Im going to count out her words on here to make sure I list them. Plus Im too busy to update her baby book too much so this will help me remember. haha

Gigi's words at 16 months:
1) Dada
2) Airplane (sounds more like apple but she looks to the sky and says it when an airplane goes by)
3) Bird
4) Bubble
5) More please (sounds like mama which kills me but whatever)
6) milk
7) Meow (dr. says that animal sounds count)
8) ruff ruff (what a dog says)
9) quack quack
10) up (this just started today)
11) she knows what an elephant says and make the trunk (not sure how to spell that) haha
12) night night (this is what she calls her blankie
13) ball
14) elmo
15) blueberry (new as of this morning sounds like boo boo)
16) she knows what a fish "says" bloob bloob" but puts her fins up (this is thanks to the Lillis side of the family at the beach this past week)
17) Hi
18) Bye
I think thats it but she understands so much more. but I dont think that counts. haha
Ok so I feel better about that mama thing now that she knows 18 words.
I felt a little silly leaving the Dr. cause Im sure he was thinking, "stop freaking out lady she is fine."
haha this is just a prime example of 1) how different all kids can be and 2) that she is exactly like me.

Beach time!

We just got back from the beach. I miss it already. We went with Toms family. His aunt and uncle and their son Nick (another red head!), His uncle Billy and his 4 kids. His other uncle Jimmy. His uncle and Georgias Godfather Chris and his 3 kids. Toms grandparents and his parents and sisters. His cousin Mark and his girlfriend Karen also came down but got their own house. with all those kids, I can understand WHY. hahaha

Mark and Karen got engaged while we down there which is WONDERFUL since they have been together 10 years! A wedding is soon to come. I guess when you have been together that long why make it longer with a long engagement. Karen said babies are soon to come too! yea! gigi will have cousins her age. I think sometime this Fall will be the wedding. I love fall weddings. they are so pretty. It will be our 3rd wedding before this year is up. Ashleighs (toms cousin) is in Aug. His cousin David is getting married in Oct. and now Karen and Marks. YIKES thats alot. but i love weddings so its all good.

back to the beach...

so gigi HATES the water and the sand. She didnt mind the water as long as you were holding her and not trrying to put her feet in it. here are a few pics. notice the death grip on toms shirt. haha

We had a great time spending time with family. The house was AMAZING! each of us basically had a suite. A huge bedroom with a hugeeee bathroom. we had a steam shower AND a jet tub. double sinks! WHOOP WHOOP. gigi slept great which was awesome. we put on her spongebob and to slumbertown she went. she loved playing with her cousins. here she is with her cousin morgan who just loves playing with her.

This is the UVA protected tent that we bought our pale daughter. haha

Gigi in her Bob Bob chair.

Mommy and Gigi enjoying the water.

Eatin a snack.

Happy 4th

Well since we were leaving for the beach the next day we didnt do too much on the 4th. Tom had to work (which he HATES on july 4th cause everyone becomes stupid on this day) so gigi and i hung out at the house and had a photo shoot. haha basically i dressed her up and followed her with a camera. loser i know. but what else was i going to do. then tom got home and we went to his parents and ordered pizza and hung out with them. we had to get up at 330 am to leave for the beach the next day. we let that early in order to allow gigi to sleep most of the way. which she did which was awesome.

here are some pics from our photo shoot. :)

By the way, this little bike was my mothers when she was little. My uncle Chris found it in my great grandmothers basement and completely redid it for Gigi. It was totally rusted and in bad shape. Everything on the bike is original except for the little pedels. It was a very thoughful gift and gigi just LOVES it. her little feet dont touch the pedels yet but we push her round the house on it and she loves it.