100 days left…until our official due date! It’s hard to believe August is right around the corner.

Nesting is certainly settling in. I have gotten out all the tiny newborn outfits and re-arranged the girls’ bedroom to accomodate all their clothes. We found a double stroller on Craigslist that was just what I had in mind. The last thing we need is a toddler bed for Giana so her new baby sister can take over the crib!

I have been slacking on the belly shots, so here’s a few to show our progress. Here’s when I started showing around 19 weeks:

And here we are last week, getting bigger at 25 weeks along!

One other thing we need – a name!

And not that anyone had doubts, but Rafael is still the best hubby a pregnant woman could ask for. He keeps this pregnant mama happy! Look what he brought me yesterday. Yum!

Our amazing little girl is one year old today.

I. Cannot. Believe. It.

Giana is one!

Rafael and I often sit in amazement and just watch her. She is a sweetie with an independent streak. Her latest thing is pretending to “read” books. She opens the pages, points a finger, and babbles and she points to various things on the page. She gives the best hugs. Sometimes she pretends to kiss, but she usually prefers to make raspberry noises with her mouth instead.

Giana has eight teeth (four front top and four front bottom), and we think she’s working on a right molar. She walks everywhere around the house and she is acting like she wants to start running. She can climb up stairs and can turn herself around to scoot down the stairs backwards.

She says “HI” and waves. She seems to say “hola” sometimes too, as well as mama, papa, up, baby (for the babies in her books or for a mirror) and pu-pah (for puppy). Anything she holds becomes a phone – whether it’s a cracker or a sock or her Fisher Price baby smartphone, she holds it up to her ear and laughs.

Giana eats almost anything. Squash and meat (all kinds) are her favorite. She hates silverware but can easily drink out of her own sippy cup. Anytime she hears music, whether mama singing or on a TV commercial, she bops her head and does her own sort of dance. She usually doesn’t care about the television, but she can’t be bothered when Sid the Science Kid is on.

Giana is the light of our house and the most amazing blessing in our lives. We can’t express how thankful we are that the Lord gave us the honor of raising her. Happy birthday, little peanut. We love you more than you can ever know.

Our big girl learned a new trick!

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And, of course, we had to make sure she knew it in Spanish too.

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Here she is – now on the package of the peapod costume at your local Target!

It’s so cute, I just had to buy one! Since this was shot six months ago, she has way outgrown it. Oh well – maybe a future sibling can wear it some day!

So…Giana is on another pack of diapers. She’s now on the newborn size. And it’s a good photo of her this time!

Now this was the picture I expected to see after our photo shoot all those months ago. When this photo came out on the Size 1 diapers, it wasn’t as cute as I know my little girl is.

This is what we think happened: They used the original photo (above) for the newborn sized diapers, now in a Target store near you. Then they edited and changed the colors (and possibly put her head on a different baby’s body) to make her look different for the Size 1 diaper package.

Anyway, I’m so excited to see Giana on the newborn package! I love this photo of her and I’m so excited everyone else gets to see it too.