My big girl just keeps getting bigger. This is a fact I’m both immensely proud of, because I have been able to nourish her well, and also completely meloncholy about, because it is all happening so fast. I recently put away her tummy time mat, because she just crawls around it now. I also put away her baby bathtub since she somehow manages to splash to the ceiling when in.. Read More
I am so excited that our big girl is seven months old! Giana is such an expressive girl. Usually, this mean she smiles, laughs, coos, squeals, sings and talks to express her happiness. On the flip side, this expressiveness comes out when she is angry and she lets us know with her signature scream! Giana loves to get on her hands and knees to try and crawl, but she hasn’t.. Read More
We had a big event this past week – the first night Giana and I were apart. In a word, it was sad. Giana and Rafael dropped me off at the airport at 8 a.m. They went on to drop-in daycare and work, respectively. I jumped on planes and made my way to Philly for a work conference and social event. I brought a battery pack adapter and pumped in.. Read More
So here I am, almost seven months into this parenting thing, and I find that I am much more crunchy than I expected to be. I always thought of crunchy moms as hippie, yoga-pants wearing, anti-everything pediatrician suggests. When I was pregnant, I thought I would be a mom who took advantage of every possible modern convenience. I am much closer to crunchy now! We mostly cloth diaper, which I never expected to do… Read More
Not only am I so blessed to have such a beautiful baby, but I am also so blessed to have a husband with such amazing photography and computer skills to capture her beauty. We had a little photo session in our backyard to celebrate her six month birthday.
Thank you Lord that I have a job working from home. I got to witness Giana sitting unassisted for the first extended length of time!
“I’d do anything for you,” she said. I know, mom. — When I started my job with my new company, they told me about the company meeting they would be having in April. I said “Sure!” when they asked me if I thought I’d be able to make it. At the time, I figured two months would be plenty of time to get used to the idea of being away.. Read More
Giana has been doing a bit of baby modeling lately. Her adorable face – combined with her Hispanic descent on the white Minnesota landscape AND the fact that her proud papa will show her picture to anyone who looks – has lead to several jobs for Target. Her first job was when she was 12 weeks old. It was innocent enough. She just had to lay there with her up&up.. Read More
I’ve been missing my grandma a lot lately. I think that as I mother my little girl more, I think about my own mother more, which in turn makes me think of her mother more. I am eating some black jelly beans right now. I thought they were gross when I was little, but Grandma told me they were the best. I started eating them with her and grew to.. Read More
She is conquering! Giana started rolling over and over and over in bed. She makes loops around until she is face down and her head is where her feet started. We had to unswaddle her because she would fling herself over even when she was tightly wrapped up. The bad thing was that she couldn’t get back on her back. Or get her face out of the bars of the.. Read More
