Saturday, July 19, 2008

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.

1 comments:

MP said...

so sad about her eczema. I hope it is healing up! and..also sad about not saying the word "mama" maybe will surprise you one of these days..but good work on the rest of her vocabulary!!