November 4, 2010 - My Baby's a Genius!!!

She was sooooo proud to show off her new talent today. She did it over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (OK you get the point) again.

My little lovely can put the circle shape into the circle hole!

We're still working on her patience though. When she can't fit the circle in right away, she screams at it. But she doesn't give up and eventually gets it... over and over and over again. :)

If you look closely, you can tell she's smiling here. She's so proud of herself, and so am I.

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November 3, 2010 - The Stash

I just realized, I never showed off the stash! It's quite impressive for a first timer, especially after only a 1/2 hour.

Check out Georgia's Halloween candy stash:

That's the good.

The bad?

You're looking at two or three extra pounds for mommy's waistline.

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November 2, 2010 - The Five Hour Fish

RIP Finkleton.

I don't know what happened. One moment Finkleton was swimming happily in his new home, eating his new fish food. The next moment... OK, five hours later... he was belly up and taking a trip to that big tank in the sky. A trip which, as we all know, requires a trip down the toilet first.

Five hours, are you serious? So much for Georgia's first pet fish. Maybe we'll just pretend this one didn't happen.

Bye-bye Finkleton.

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November 1, 2010 - Time for a Pet!

On a visit to Wal-Mart the other day, Georgia took great interest in the fish inside the fish tanks. She laughed and smiled and pointed. So I decided it was time for Georgia's first pet fish.

So today we headed to the pet store. We already had a small tank, so all we needed was a fish. We looked through the tanks and found the right little guy.

Meet Finkleton!!!! (Um yeah, my husband picked the name)

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October 31, 2010 - Our Flower Among Goblins

It's Halloween!!! Although it's not Georgia's first Halloween, it is the first she'll actually participate in. Last year she was only a couple of weeks old... and a pumpkin.

This year though, our little lovely is blooming.

At my husband's request, he and I dressed up for Halloween as well. I didn't want it to be random, so we complemented Georgia. He was a gardener and I was a bee.

This is the three of us at our first candy stop:

Oh but we didn't stop with just one house. There was more candy to be had in this neighborhood!

Georgia went right for a "100 Grand" candy bar, and by the time we stopped at the next house, she had bitten through the wrapper.

A few more houses down, she picked up another candy bar for her empty hand. So she was double-fisting the candy bars. As we stopped at yet another house, my little lovely showed her true colors. Without an empty hand to grab yet another piece of candy, she stuck the "100 Grand" between her teeth and went for a third candy bar.

Oh Georgia!

This is what she looked like by the time we got home.

Chocolaty and happy - but those two words just go together, don't they? Trick-or-treat!!!

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October 30, 2010 - My Monkey is a Turkey??

This Thanksgiving, my husband will be wearing a turkey on his head. Why you might ask? Don't worry, I did too. But he saw it in the $2.50 bin at Target and just had to have it - a fabric turkey head. The whole cooked bird right there.

But Georgia tried it on today.

I never said she tried it on willingly.

Stay tuned for pictures of my hubby "willingly" wearing the turkey hat on turkey day.

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October 29, 2010 - New Uses for Old Toys

Our little girl is old enough that some toys are becoming obsolete. Toys that are for "babies." I try to convince Georgia she still falls into that category, but my arguments fall on deaf one year old ears.

But Georgia is finding new ways to use toys she's just not that into anymore. Today she found her "boring" exersaucer very entertaining from underneath it.

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