Well, that's a bummer.

We're supposed to be leaving tomorrow morning to head back to Michigan for Thanksgiving. Pretty sure I've been looking forward to this since, oh, September...Plus, our families are uber excited too. It's been awhile since most of them have seen Miss Georgia. Aaand since she's pretty much the cutest thing in the world, we have been dying to show her off.

Well today, 20 hours before we were supposed to leave, the army decided that they are not going to approve Mikes mileage pass that would allow us to go home. Sigh. They did say he can take leave and we can leave on Thursday at midnight. So, we will be driving though the night and barely making it home in time for Thanksgiving dinner. I know, better late than never. And I should be grateful that we can go home at all since a lot of our fellow military friends here are not able to. But it still stinks when you've been looking forward to something for so long only to have your plans change the day before. On the bright side, at least it won't interfere with my Black Friday shopping. hehe.

6 month pictures= epic fail.

Why does my child hate photographers? Why?! I'm not sure if it's the photographer or camera...or both. She should be used to the camera by now. I've been taking at least 50 pictures of her a day since birth. She smiles fine for me. But put her in front of an actual photographer, one we are paying big bucks to, and she won't even crack a teeny tiny grin. Gah. At her 3 month pictures, she frowned. At her Halloween pictures, she just kind of looked at us like "What the heck are you doing to me, making me sit here in this stupid duck costume?" For her 6 month pictures, I thought we might have a chance at getting a good smile out of her. The timing was perfect- she had just napped and ate. Her diaper was changed. She looked cute as heck. Plus, we are crazy people and drove 1.5 hours to get there. (Thank-you FLW, for being in the middle of nowhere. Sigh.) Surely she would at least give us one smile. Wrong. As soon as I set her down, she cried. It was then that I knew we were not going to get her to smile. And ya, I was right. Out of the entire hour long session, she did not smile once. We were lucky if she'd even look at the camera. It got to the point where we didn't care if she smiled or not, as long as she would look at the camera without crying or pouting. And then, go figure, the second we got in the car she started laughing and smiling and was as happy as can be. Little stinker.

The photographer posted a few preview shots, and even though she's not smiling, I think she looks adorable. And big. She looks so big! Here is my favorite shot:

I like this one a lot too. It pretty much sums up her life right now-fingers in the mouth 24/7.

I'll post more when I get the disc.

Sleep is for the weak.

Or so thinks Georgia anyways. Man, that baby sure hates sleeping! She definitely didn't get that from me or her dad, that's for sure. At 6 months old, she is still waking up every 2-3 hours all.night.long. Ya, that's making for one tired momma! She'll put herself to sleep just fine, but staying asleep? That's an issue.

Part of the problem is that she's just way too cute. We'll put her to bed at 8 and she'll fall right asleep. Then lately she's been getting up a few times between 8 and midnight. But when we go in her room to give her her binky, she smiles at us. Who can resist that?! We try really hard to ignore her, but ohmygosh. We'll usually make it to the putting the binky back in her mouth part without really acknowledging her. But then she'll smile at you with her binky in her mouth and it's about the cutest darn thing ever. So of course, we can't help but crack a little smile. Which then makes her think "Oh yes! They're going to play with me!" Wrong. Very wrong. So we'll walk out of the room, leaving that smiling face behind. And then comes the scream. And boy oh boy, can she scream. After midnight hits, we're lucky if she'll sleep for 3 hours before she wakes up again. It's usually closer to 2 hours. Cry, re-bink, lots of shushing, fall asleep, wake up 2 hours later, repeat. That's my life these days. Sigh. But she's worth it, I promise. ;)

must.back.away.

from the cookies. I have no self control. I made these yesterday, and have already had 3 this morning. For breakfast. Very nutritional, and oh so good for my diet.

Here's the recipe. You should try 'em. They're delish.

Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies:

2 cups of flour

3/4 cup of cocoa powder

1 cup of butter

3/4 cup white sugar

2/3 cup packed brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt  

1 teaspoon vanilla 

2 cups of chocolate chips

1. Pre-heat oven 350 degrees
2. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in medium size bowl
3. Beat together softened butter, granulated white sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl with mixer until creamy
4. Add in the eggs in one at a time to the cream mixture
5. Gradually beat in flour mixture
6. Add chocolate chips and walnuts if wanted and mix well
7. Drop rounded tablespoons of batter onto ungreased cookie sheet
8. Bake for 10 min or until cookies are browning around edge but still slightly soft in middle.

First post.

I finally decided to join the world of blogging. Georgia is growing up so fast, and doing something new and exciting every day. Since there is no way I could possibly remember everything, I figured I might as well get it in writing. That, and with living 600 miles away from our family, this will be a good way for them to keep up with our growing girl! And maybe this way I won't feel the need to call or text my mom every time Georgia does something cute. Oh who  am I kidding, I still will. The only bad thing is that it took me (almost) 6 months to start. Ah, oh well.

A quick recap of the last few months is necessary, I'm sure. So this post is going to be ridiculously long. Bear with me while I brag on my girl.

She has always been such a perfect, content, happy little baby. All you have to do is look at her and she gives you a huge, gummy, grin that could light up a room. Actually, you don’t even have to look at her. More often than not, I catch her smiling at me out of the corner of my eye when I’m not looking at her. It melts my heart. It’s like her way of telling me she loves me. She’s so sweet. She will smile at anyone and every one. I’ve yet to meet a stranger that hasn’t commented on how cute she is.
The older she gets, the more I fall in love. I’d say that her personality really started to shine through around 4-5 months. She is so goofy. She loves to give you kisses. Her daddy’s been working on teaching her kisses since she was born, and she caught on fast. When you lean in to kiss her on the mouth, she opens wide, ready to kiss you back. She knows. At 5 months she started giving kisses on the cheek. One day out of nowhere she grabbed my face, leaned in, and planted a big wet kiss on my cheek. Then she looked at me with a huge smile. It was like she wanted to make sure that I knew she was giving me a kiss. And I did. After that, she started giving her daddy kisses on the cheek. He loves it, and I love that he loves it. It’s so rewarding to have your little 5 month old baby knowingly give you a kiss.

Daddy Kisses

Not only does she like to kiss us, she likes to kiss the dog. Chesney’s been on cage rest for 2 months due to her broken pelvis (hit by a car) and is just now able to hang out with us in the living room. Since Georgia is now a rock star at sitting by herself, I like to sit her by the dog. She’ll pet her, grab her fur by the fistful, and kiss her. Wide open mouth, just like she does to us. And of course, Chesney kisses her right back. I’m not sure if this whole dog kiss baby and vise versa thing is funny or gross. So far I think funny. Although I can’t say Chesney agrees. She seems to like the baby a lot, but sometimes I get the feeling that Chesney gets a tiny bit irritated with being poked in the eye. Just you wait Chesney, until Georgia is mobile. ;)

Now onto the present. Today, she finally broke her first tooth. Well, sort of. The tip of the tooth is popping out with the one next to it following quickly behind. I've been able to see the teeth underneath for awhile now and she's been a drool machine. Cuteness. I wasn't able to get a good tooth picture today, but here she is after her morning nap. She was fully swaddled and turned the other way. Tricky.