Austin Visit

Here is the hot mama outside her new home. Gorgeous, right?

Here we all are inside Kel's house - can you believe we all used to teach together? Good ole fun days! (Not the teaching part - just the hanging out together).

On Tuesday, Anna, Tanya, Laura and myself headed out to visit our friend Kelly that lives outside of Austin. Kelly has recently moved into a house that she and her husband designed together and had built.

The drive to and from Austin was fun - I got to catch up with my old Poe friends - without having to worry about the 3G's - they stayed at home with their Nonna.

Kelly's new house is absolutely gorgeous - what an inspiration for me to see that it can actually be done!

Unfortunately, we could only stay for lunch and then we had to take off - a 3.5 hour drive awaited.

My Angel

My sweet happy baby is now 3 months old.

She has grown so much these past few weeks - there is so much that she can do!

She can now vocalize, or coo, and of course, the first time that I heard her do this I thought that there was something wrong with her - I ran over to her and realized that she was just trying to speak. I also heard a deep belly laugh that very same day while we were playing peek a boo. Just recently, she has discovered her hands - it is the cutest thing watching her look/stare at her hands - she is so fascinated by them. She will be crying and then notice her hands and suddenly just stop crying in order to look at them! The funniest thing.

Georgina loves to smile and laugh. She has really been smiling since birth when I thought that it was just gas - but now I know that it is who she is - a happy smiling baby. Her only vice is that she loves to be held - all the time. My mother says that it is my fault for spoiling her and holding her too much. But how can you hold a baby 'too much'? I don't get it.

Because she loves to be held so much, it is a challenge to put her down in her crib to sleep. I will rock/nurse her to sleep and as soon as I try to put her in her crib she wakes up and the cycle starts all over again until she gets so exhausted that she finally just gives in to it. She fights sleep in order to be held. I need to try to fix this somehow but not sure how -

Once Georgie gets to sleep, she will sleep for about 5 hours straight on most nights. Then there are those nights that she wants to be fed every 3-4 hours - nothing consistent yet!

Grandparents Day

Tuesday before Thanksgiving was Grandparents Day at the girls school. The Gs enjoyed showing off their work and their school to the grandparents.

My girls are so blessed - all four of their grandparents went to their school and are also a huge part of their lives. They have such supportive, loving and caring grandparents that love them so very much. How incredibly fortunate we all are! We are thankful for them.