7 months

This is going to be a short post. I just wanna write down all the highlights of this past month because its been a big one.

Georgiana:

had two teeth come in this month and she looks adorable with them!
Waves Hi and bye to everyone!
Her hair is growing fast and thick!
She is looking more and more like Brian everyday!
She pulls herself up unto things (basket, bathtub etc..)

Her great grandmother got her this baby doll! She cuddles, kisses, and holds her hand like it's her own baby! its adorable! aww doesn't she just melt your heart?





We love having picnics and hiking! For the first time Giana did both this past month! She also got a little sunburn :( poor girl but I don't really think it bothered her. She just had a red face.

Michael and Amber's wedding

My cousin Michael got married last Saturday to a wonderful girl, Amber! It was such a fun day and a lovely ceremony held in my Aunt Kathy's backyard (also where Brian and I had our wedding reception two years ago).

(All photographs were taken by my talented cousin Holly Aprecio)

The beautiful couple.




notice the key above? well you'll find that in Giana's mouth in the picture below. haha


^^^My Grandma


Georgiana with my mom. yes she pulled her headband off


♥ my two favorite people♥

Phoenix Zoo

This past Friday Brian, Giana, and I went to the zoo with my family who came into town for my cousin's wedding.

It was so nice to get to hang out with them and have Gigi experience her first time at the zoo! She didn't pay attention to most of the animals, but she did like the pigs and the petting zoo. She was scared of the goats at first but then warmed up to them by trying to rip out their fur/hair.


The Phoenix Zoo has a cool place where the small monkeys are in the same area as you. They could jump on you if they wanted (But they almost never do). The workers told me to take Georgiana's flower off her head as the monkeys may come jump on her head for it. haha



I love watching Orangutans. They are so awesome!

Below are some pictures with Gigi on some elephants:



This massive jaguar was crazy close to us.

My Aunt Jackie, Cousin Holly and her son, Sam.


Brian wants these Hong Kong orchids in our backyard.
And at this point Giana was pretty worn out. She fell asleep in the monkey cage and I carried her the rest of the way out.

Such a fun day!

cutest. baby. ever.

sorry every other baby out there but it's true, no one can get any cuter and more perfect than this girl:

Keep Calm...

I got this for our home. I love me some Harry Potter. enough said.

January 2012

This month has been exciting!
Brian has started another semester of school with 15 flippin' credits and working full time! I don't know how he does it. I will be starting school soon also. I can't wait to start so I can learn more; I'm most excited about continuing sign language!

We had our two year anniversary this past week! It was nice but it's hard to do things without Gigi.


shopping with mom!

Georgiana has hit so many milestones I don't even know where to begin.
All I know is this girl is growing up fast and I want to enjoy every second I have with her.
She will be 7 months next week and is 17lbs 11oz. 90% in her height (very tall, her feet hang out of her car seat).

Giana can now:

sit up by herself.
hold her bottle.
says DADA!
waves. (when she feels like it.)
says Hi, hey, and yeah all the time. haha.
mi-micks what we say.
says MA (almost mama right?)
talks to her stuffed animals, her favorites are Minnie Mouse and Marie from Aristocats.
laughs at silly stuff.
plays games!
drinks water from a cup.
eats baby food. (so far she only likes green peas and squash)
reaches out for everything and everyone.
bounces!
shakes her head "yes"
She loves paper and tries to eat it any chance she gets lol.
She also loves to watch me brush my teeth and tries to do it with her little brush.

eating daddy's tie

The other day I got a yoga ball to work out with and she is terrified of it. Cries anytime it comes near her. poor girl.





ah she is such a fun little girl to be around, everyone just loves her. She is ALWAYS center of attention and she likes that a lot!

And it turned out to be the best Christmas ever...

First off I hope all our family and friends had a great Christmas! Christmas is my favorite holiday because I get to spend it with the people I care most about.

Unfortunately, this Christmas started out rough. Giana and I had been sick the past few weeks and on Wednesday Georgiana got even worse. Christmas Eve we ended up spending some time in the Phoenix Children's Urgent Care because Georgiana had a high fever and was having an extremely tough time breathing. She has croup which can get really bad, but fortunately we live in a time where we have wonderful medicines at our disposal and she was given a kind of steroid to open up her throat. One hour after that was given she was able to breathe and sleep through the night. We feel so blessed to have our Georgiana doing better, that was my greatest gift of all this Christmas.

Onto happier news, after a great nights sleep we woke up to some wonderful presents under the tree.


Gigi and I got this from Brian. A Jeep Liberty walker, at long last we have a jeep again! hahah and Giana LOVES it! We also got clothes and fun toys.


Brian got Star Wars on Blu-ray and this shirt from Gigi:

so cute.

Georgiana was very spoiled by her Grandma, Grandpa, Aunts, Uncle, and Great Grandma. She got TONS of toys, clothes, and an awesome highchair.





For my family we got them Just Dance 3 and a painting Gigi made.
We LOVED playing the game.


Doesn't this look so fabulous? it was hard to do but so worth it!


I love this picture of Georgiana with my dad. She likes to touch everyone's faces. so adorable. ♥