Bountiful Blessings: Sweet Georgia Claire

I still call her my baby girl, but in reality, she's not a baby anymore! LOVE our Georgia Claire to pieces & her little personality that is coming out more & more as each day progresses. She's still in occupational therapy working mainly on strengthening her grasp & fine motor skills, and strengthening her core. She's doing SO well and is growing up right before my eyes! We've applied to a private school here in Louisiana for her to start PreK next year...boo hoo! Her OT thinks the consistency of an every day program will be good for her, as well as the preparation for kindergarten. We are really excited about the opportunity. The school is wonderful...they start with chapel & a devotional every morning, the class size is small, and it's just an overall wonderful atmosphere. It's a classical academy & they teach through music. For a little girl who is loves to sing, sounds like the perfect fit! We should find out in March if we are accepted!

Georgia loves to be a helper, always wanting to help me in the kitchen, always trying to help her little sister, and always the first to help clean up at the end of the day. Here are some of my favorite pics of her these last few weeks.

Helping me make cookies. Instead of turning the beaters off, she turned them on, and there was a lot of flour in the bowl...OOPS! We got a good laugh!

She loves her "special blankey"...and loves to watch tv on our bed.

I remember sitting like this in my gown when I was a little girl...

And she has gotten SOOOO GOOD on her tricycle! She LOVES to ride! I'm ready for spring so hopefully we can get out more & ride!

She still has issues with textures of foods, but her OT keeps reminding me that once we get her core stronger & those gross motor skills developed, the oral motor will catch up! We're seeing her branching out a little more. I had to get a picture of her at Mom & Dad's house a few weeks ago. She ate not one but TWO cuties!

She has done so well since getting her tonsils & adenoids removed & tubes put in her ears, but she still has MAJOR allergies. Her eczema is a daily battle it seems, and she has asthma issues. We had to take a breathing treatment home a couple weeks ago & do a few albuterol treatments...WOWZERS! Talk about a different child! She was NUTS after doing these treatments! Shelby had been in Houston for work, got home & I ran to the grocery store, and when I got home his eyes were HUGE & he said, "What have you done to her?! She's a different child!" To which I responded, "Yeah, now you know what my day was like!" Thank goodness those treatments should be few & far between!

She likes to do therapy with her baby. Here she is brushing her, bouncing her on the ball, & doing her listening therapy...LOVE IT!

Stacy sent us some Valentine goodies in the mail & whatever the chocolate & peanut butter candies were that she made were GC's favorite!!! I think I ate ONE! Thanks, Stacy!

This picture CRACKS ME UP! We were on one of our many trips to see my parents...and we were LOADED down...yes, that's a tricycle beside her carseat & my clothes on the other side! She wanted to keep her hat on & she was just a singing away with it pulled over her eyes...little funny bunny!