Silver Boobs

Ok, someone gave me the award system. Haha!  Somehow it is encouraging!

1 month - glitter
2 months - brass
3 months - bronze
6 months - silver
9 months - silver with gold nipples
12 months - gold
18 months - platinum
24 months - diamond 

Doctors, can't live with them, can't live without them ;)

Georgia didn't gain any weight last week and that had everyone crazy. The dietian told me add oatmeal, the nurse said that would clog the tube, another doc said coconut oil. I was so confused by the end of last week. Randomly at church this lady comes up and she's speaking my new language to me. "How are her feeds going?  Oh, how great she can do bollus!  I'm like wait, are you a nurse?  No I'm a dietitian!!!  Just who I would love to have a convo with today, thank you!  So she tells me, why not add olive oil?  It has all good fats, a lot of minerals they need, helps with constipation. So I run it by docs and dietitian and they love the idea and she gained half a pound this week. I'm grateful that lady was put in my path and I'm ready for some dang doctors who know what they're doing!!!!

I've been pumping for six months straight and this week when I was complaining one nurse said, I know a lady who pumped for two years for her tenth child. Well,,,,guess what,,,I'm not going that far!!  I pray I can make it to a year, then Georgia better decide to swallow and drink some cow milk like the rest of us!  I say this, but I'm a little worried if they say its best for her, I will end up pumping until she's ten. Haha!  No!  On this exclusive pumping web site they have these awards they give to themselves for each month they pump, they'll say, I have bronze boobs with silver nipples. I need to ask someone what my award is after six months, silver boobs maybe?!?!  Can I make it to gold?!?

Georgia is starting to vocalize & laugh. So thankful for the little, but strong voice that comes out of her. She's a sweet tempered baby, but will put you in your place quick now that she's learned her angry scream!  Ah, gotta love girls!

I'm still struggling with patience with my older kids. My friend told me never pray for patience or you'll get more lessons to help you learn, so when I pray I try to avoid asking for patience ;). I do ask to be able to meet all their needs and for me to be able to be kind and gentle. I was proud of myself this week, they all did chores ALMOST everyday. So funny, they love chore time. I played with cash a lot in the mornings. They watched tv a little less this week. We're getting there!  I can feel myself coming back, getting my grasp on life again, slowly.


Oh, and the best, her ped has been hesitant to say she's out of the woods and today he basically said so. He was so impressed with her development. He said, I actually have no medical reasoning about what's happening here, but I do have some Divine answers. Yep, Georgia's a walking, talking miracle!  Proving each doctor wrong with every day she lives past six months!  Every time she coo's. Every milestone she hits!

Family Therapy

Georgia's finally gaining some weight. She's up to 11lbs 1oz. The running joke for our family right now is when Blake buys diapers he buys a big box and when I buy diapers I buy the smallest pack in hope that she'll finally grow out of size one diapers!!!  They're  finally getting a little snug, so we're getting closer to size 2 diapers. She'll be six months, she's so little still. I can't go anywhere without people asking how old she is and gasping how tiny she is. Some people say it casually, some people go on way to long asking a lot of questions about how much she weighs and what I'm feeding her. When they cross the line, I finally have to tell them the whole story, then they feel sheepish, it's helped me learn to keep my questions, curiosity, and comments to myself.

 I finally got her in some therapies, and its been really good for her and the whole family has joined in. We all gather around the tummy time blanket and play with her. She has brought so much love in our home. I've mentioned this before, but it cracks me up how the dialect in our home has become full of medical jargon. Blake was watching her the other day and he says, "Wow, great motor skills". Chloe told me, "Mom, I'm so proud she found out she has hands, now we've got to show her her feet."  (Georgia's hands never came together like other babies do, so we'd put them together for her, now we show her her feet, so she'll start to grab them.). I hear things everyday that I know other people would never hear from their kids.

We went to the Festival of Lights parade last night with the whole family, and believe it or not, that was therapy for Georgia. The feeding therapist told me that too many families shut themselves in and don't go out. She said, if you're an active family (which we are) stay active, get out, take trips, build those experiences. Georgia will develop behaviors based on not having the normal experiences. It's honestly therapy for the whole family, we need those experiences as well. We went with some dear, dear friends who just moved back from Colorado. It was so nice to see our kids play together and have fun. It was nice to visit with a friend. Most of all, I really love to be with my husband, he makes me laugh and is such a fun dad. Georgia didn't know what to think at first, but she fell asleep soon after while I pumped milk into her belly on the parade route surrounded by hundreds of people. She's getting used to being a part of our wild family ;).

I keep envisioning her life as she grows, and there are so many unknowns, but I can picture her running around with the kids doing all the stuff they do in her own special way.