Georgia Susanne

AKA:  George, Georgi, Gorgi, Itty Bitty Baby Girl, Tiddy Bit, Tit

Hey there Georgi Girl! My sweet 2nd born (you were born 6 minutes before your twin brother) born July 8, 2010 at 2:18pm.  Even though you were almost 10 weeks early you were so beautiful with a  head full of curly, reddish/brown hair and the prettiest little lips I had ever seen.

We should have known from your dramatic entrance into this world that you were going to be a HAND FULL!!  You are in to everything .... You broke your sac inside of my tummy at 31 weeks gestation,  you walked at 10 months, climbed out of your crib at 12 months and love to be at the highest point of whatever you can find!!  You have fallen off of your changing table, climbed and fallen off of the kitchen table 2 times so far and fallen off of the couch more times than I can count! ;o) Your favorite place to play is in the cabinets and I mean IN the cabinets!!  You will get up on the top shelf inside the cabinet and Jake will shut the door, it's so funny! We call you spider monkey and mountain goat all the time!! 

You're personality is so much like your daddy.  You are serious and reserved in a crowd but when you are on your turf and comfortable you are such a clown.  When you smile your eyes disappear and you have the cutest little dimple on your right cheek.

You are 18 months and you are a tiny little person, or at least  in comparison to your brother and your big sister at your age.  You weigh 24 lbs., wear 18 mo. clothing and size 5 diaper.

You love music and love to dance.  At the first sound of music you stop immediately and break it down! Your brother and sister love to dance with you but don't have quiet the skills you have.  I've never seen a little body move like you can move yours.  It is so cute and we could sit and watch it all day.

You are talking more and more everyday and mostly just jibber jabber with your brother but you do say a view legible words.  The words that you are saying are Momma, DaDa, Bubba, MeMe, Lu, No No, Pretty, Ball, Cookie (Tootie), Juice, Baby, Bottle (BaBa), Night, Night, Thank You, JuJu, NeaNea and BoBo.


You love your brother and even though you two fuss like brothers and sisters often do, your bond is obvious.  You guys will sometimes sit indian style across from each other and talk and laugh .... it is the sweetest thing.  You are concerned when he cries and love to give him kisses.  You have just started grabbing him by the hand and leading him around.  You guys like to team up on me and get into all kinds of mischief,  you are partners in crime.  I pray that you two always stay the best of friends.

You are pretty smitten with your big sister, as well.  You follow her and mimic her and try so hard to do exactly whatever she is doing.  I am so glad you have a "sister" and hope that your relationship will be as special as mine is with my sisters.  She thinks you are the cutest thing ever and you guys love to hold hands and you love sitting in her lap!

You are very independent and don't need a whole lot of cuddles but when you do give them out you give the best kisses and hugs!. However, when your daddy walks in the room, you melt and I swear you bat your eyes and pucker up to give him sugars!

George, 

you are my Itty Bitty Baby girl and I love you so much.  Your daddy and I can't get enough of you.  You keep us laughing and on our toes and we would not have it any other way.  When I put you and your brother to sleep at night, you always cry out for me about 10 minutes after and I go in and pick you up, you put your head on my shoulder and squeeze tight and then you are ready to go back down.  It is secretly one of my most favorite times of the day and I will be so sad when you grow out of that.  I so look forward to our life with you in and can't wait to see wonderful things you "stir" up!  We love you, Tiddy Bit!

Summer

AKA:  Sister, Sum, Summy, Pookie Dook, My Girl, Senorita, SugarBaby, Tootie Bell

Our first born, born October 19, 2006.  Summer came here full of spunk, attitude and lots of personality and has been the Queen of the house since day one!  I can not believe my girl is 5 years old ... seems impossible!!



Summers 5th birthday



Summer takes Gymnastics once a week at SEAGA a local gym and loves every minute.  She received the lessons from MeMe and Papa for her 5th birthday.  She is very good at it and although is one of the youngest ones in her class can do a couple of things that no one in the class can do.  She is great at cartwheels and does a pretty good backbend and does a handstand with a little help!

Summer is really into baby dolls right now and her favorite is her American Girl Doll that she got for Christmas this year.  She goes back and forth between Elizabeth and Mary Clara for names for her doll but mostly just calls her American Doll. :o)

She knows and can write all of her Letters, upper and lower, she can write her name, mommys name and daddys name.  She can write Love, Stop, No, Mommy, Daddy.  She knows her phone number and MeMe's phone number and we are working on our address.  I stand in awe of how smart she is and although she does have a lot of "book smarts"  where she blows me away is with her common sense!  She is very "knowing" and loves to know things and asks SOOOO many questions.  I love that about her even though it can get a little tiresome at times!

Summer is such a wonderful big sister and I don't know what I would have done this year without he.  Her brother and sister adore her and she is so good with them.  They are getting to the age where she can really play with them and it is probably my favorite thing at this point in our lives.  It makes me so proud to see them love eachother.

If there is one thing I know it is that I will never have to worry about anyone ever taking advantage of Sum. Although she is very sweet and cares so much for others and their feelings ..... she don't take no junk!! ;o)  It is one of those things that you know will serve them well when they are older but aren't quite sure how to teach them to control while they are young.  She is fearless and would go toe to toe with a  giant (aka: her daddy)!!  It does cause quite a few time outs in her 5 year old world but will surely give me some peace when it is time for her to go out into this great big world on her own!

Summer's cousins are her most favorite people in the whole wide world.  They are all a few years older than her but close enough that they all play together wonderfully.  They are best friends and I hope that it stays that way forever. 

Sam, Sarah, John & Summer (at Sarahs 6th grade graduation 2011)

Ever since Summer was born she has LOVED sleeping in her own bed.  However, since the babies were born she would much rather be snuggled in between mommy and daddy in our bed.  I think that this probably happened while we were in Birmingham with the babies.  When Summer would come up to visit us on the weekends she would sleep with me and it brought me so much comfort and peace.  We love snuggling and she ends up in our bed about 3 nights out of the week.  Bad habit but we all kind of enjoy it!!

BLING, BLING!!  Summer loves anything that sparkles!!  She is just natrually drawn to all things girly and glitz!  I kid and say that for her, the tackier the better!! I am hoping that her obsession calms down a little and that she'll go more for "class" and not so much for BLING!!   I am a little more conservative in style but her JuJu (my sister) on the other hand is just a grown up version of Sum and just happens to be where she got her nickname "Senorita".  We kid and say she should have been her daughter!

Summer showing off her earrings the day she got her ears pierced (April 2011)!! She could not wait to get those out and put in some "dangle ones"!!

Summer,

   You are such a joy and so much fun!!  You have such a sweet spirit wrapped up in that sassy little personality and we can not wait to see what God has in store for your life.  We know that whatever it is, you will be the best!!  Summer you have been such a comfort for your mommy and have helped me so much since our babies were born.  One of my favorite times of the day is that hour and a half that we have with just you after the babies go to sleep.   We love you so much, Sister and can't even remember what our lives could have possibly been before you!!  Momma (& Daddy)

2012

I love a fresh start and that is exactly what a new year brings.  This new year is also bringing on a few new changes for my little family.  I have started back to work after 18 months off with my babies and although it is a bit sad, it is also a bit exciting for this momma!  Meme is keeping the little ones and Summer, of course, is going to PreK at Funshine.  My schedule is only 3 mornings a week for now and we will ease into 4 full days by the fall at which point Jake and Georgia will begin at Funshine and Summer will start Kindergarten!! WHAT, when did that happen!?!?!  She is so excited about going to "big" school, me .... not so much! So, that is pretty much what has been happening around here so far in 2012. I  hope to do a better job at keeping up with our lives and am excited about what this year has in store for The Spann Family Five!

Jake, 18mos; Summer, 5 yrs old; Georgia, 18 mos
Christmas 2011

Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Two Babies in a Tub ...

These babies of mine think their big sister is the best thing EVER.  She can sing and dance and they can hardly handle it!  Nothing makes this mommy more proud than that my babies love each other so.  I caught some of this admiration on camera the other night at bath time.  They were losing their breath they were laughing so hard at their silly sister!!

Tradition

 

My Bama Babies

SEC football kicked off this weekend and we had gameday at our house. Meme, Papa, Julee and her crew, Nealy &  Sa, Papa Lester, Chase and Kayla and my crew spent the day watching SEC football and enjoying each others company.  My daddy is a diehard U of A fan and raised his girls that way as well, and I intend to carry on the tradition!!  Rooooolllllll Tide Roll!!



Papa & Jake



Summer's Sayings ...

Summer at her new desk on the first day of 4K

My sweet Summer is 4 years old, actually closer to 5, and is my absolute joy.   She is the perfect mixture of sweet and sassy, probably leaning a little more toward sassy, and has lots of hilarious stuff to say, sometimes at the expense of her dear old momma!  The other Sunday she and I went to the Dollar General so that she could pick out some snacks to take to the first week of 4K.  We were standing in line to check out and I remembered that I needed some zip-lock bags so I told her to come with me and we headed to the appropriate aisle.  I was speed walking directly in front her and out of the blue she said "Well, I guess my butts going to look like that when I get to be a momma."  I stopped cold in my tracks and looked around for the butt she might be talking about and she was of course staring at MINE.  I said, "What do you mean, look like what"?  "You know, BIG" she replied, in the most serious and matter of fact tone I think I have ever heard.  God love her, I didn't have the heart to tell her she was probably correct.  Needless to say, I started my new diet Monday morning! ;o) 



Summer's first day of 4K 2011



Re-Do

I had nothing but good intentions when starting this blog, around 2 years ago, but like a lot of things these days, it took a back seat.  Better yet, it got out of the car!!  I am still a dedicated blog "stalker" and am always sad that I don't have my on day to day accounts to look back on, so I am declaring a Re-Do!  I hope to be able to record this exciting season of my life so that I can come here and remember when .... I'll leave with some pictures I took while playing outside today (oh yeah, I've added a couple of kids since I was here last) 

Summer, 4; Georgia, 13 mos.; Jake, 13 mos.

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