Jack - 2 months

Jack,

I can’t believe it’s already been 2 months since your birth. These couple of months have flown by and you are becoming more interactive. You now smile. And Jack, thankfully for us, you smile all the time, my baby.

You are beginning to make sounds like you want to communicate with us. You are hungry all the time and clearly growing a lot. You only cry when you are really tired or really hungry. At all other times, you smile, smile, smile.

I went back to work 2 days before you turned 1 month old. It was an incredibly difficult thing to do, but after much thought, I decided to go back in order to maximize my days with you next year. I can’t wait until next summer when I’ll take my maternity leave and will get to spend a lot of time with you.

Jack, I love how you put your hands together like you are praying, I love how you curl your little toes, how you have fun with Charlie and Daisy and your sister, how you are so easygoing and cool. And Jack, I simply LOVE how you smile all the time. I absolutely love you, my son. Happy 2 months.

Santana's B-Day

Jack: Happy One Month!

Jack,

It has been one month since you came into this world. We love you so much and are so happy that you are here with us. You are the sweetest boy and such a wonderful baby. As of now, you pretty much sleep all the time but I can’t think of anything cuter…
You make the funniest faces (which show your beautiful dimples) and noises, it feels like you are almost "talking" to me and understanding what I'm saying to you... You are always hungry and want to feed all the time. Like your sister, you love taking baths... your vovó Rita gave you your 1st bath and you just enjoyed it, not crying once. You love and always sleep during car rides. Unlike your sister, you like the pacifier. You have the most expressive hands and like keeping them by your eyes, like a little bunny.

This past month was spent with 2 of the most special people in the world to me: your grandma and your great-grandma. They came here on 8/21 only to meet you and spent the better part of last month with you. In the 1st month of your life, you’ve done your share of shopping with them – we were already out and about only 3 days after your birth! It was a busy month, but a month when you felt much love from your grandmas, grammy Donna and granpy Nicky (who spent a week here in Seattle with us), Santana, your dad, sister and me. One thing you should know, my little one, is that you are so incredibly loved.

From the time that we laid our eyes on you, to having had our parents in town, managing it all, as well as Giulia, your dad and I have been really busy. Even though we were pretty concerned, Giulia has been nothing but incredibly loving towards you.

Now that you are here, your father and I have also felt incredibly right and complete. I can’t be happier or feel more blessed than I do – I have the most beautiful family in the world and when I think that things can’t get better or that I can’t have any more than what I already do, God blesses me with more...

You are our beautiful gift and we can’t wait to enjoy more and more of you.
We love you. Mamãe


Stats:
Birth / Nascimento:
Length / Comprimento: 20 inches / 50.8 cm
Weight / Peso: 8.55 pounds / 3.87 kg
Head Circumference:

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August 24th, 2010 - A Birth Story

Vo -- Parabens pra voce, nessa data tao querida!!!

Pool

Giulia loves to go swimming. Now if the weather would cooperate and Giulia would stop being sick... Then we would be able to enjoy this one month of summer that we get to have here in Seattle!

Major Breakthrough!!

I've been trying to get Giulia to "want" to go potty (if it's not something that she wants, then there's no way that she'll do it!) for a coupleof weeks now and she doesn't seem interested at all. Well today I went "potty" - I usually bring her into the bath room with me - and as she watched me, she asked for me to take her clothes off. I promptly obliged. She sat on the potty, but nothing happened. Then she got off the potty and went to the sink to brush her teeth. Well all of a sudden, she sat on the potty again and went pee!! I couldn't believe my eyes! I immediately gave a "reward" (chocolate bunny) so that she could make a positive association with going potty. I am over the moon!

Take my clothes off, mommy!

The "Potty"

The Reward

Seattle Coffee Crawl - May 30, 2010

Newsletter: Month 25

Giulia,

Today you turned 25 months old. You are this amazingly creative, smart, loving and absolutely beautiful little girl. This month was super cool because we had some very special visitors from Brazil: Titia Mara e Titio Helio. They spent a couple of weeks with us and we got to do some great things with them. You bonded with them very quickly and to date, almost a month later, you still ask for “Titia Mala” e “Titio Mala”, actually quite often!
This past Memorial Day weekend was also quite special because we had Titia Carla come and visit us from Dallas. We went to Leavenworth, Snohomish, downtown Seattle (on a very cool “coffee crawl”), to West Seattle and on awesome car rides throughout beautiful WA. You loved spending time with Titia Carla and the 2 of you got along beautifully.

It didn’t take us long to see Titia Mara e Titio Helio again. On May 7th we left for Brazil for your Dindinha Buba’s wedding. You, again, did great on the trip over and back (thank God for portable DVD players!) making this otherwise tiring process a fairly easy one on your dad and me.

You looked like a princess in your flower girl dress, you played amazingly well with your cousin Maria, swam in the kids pool with Jusia, papai and mamae, had beautiful moments with Vovo Rita, Vovo Toinho e Vovo Nair, had much fun with Dindinhos Dede and Buba, had a great time playing with Malu, Mariana and Joao Pedro, amongst many other amazing and unforgettable moments you got to spent with some very special people while we were in Brazil.

Giulia, our bond grows every day as you and I have become incredibly attached. It is so difficult to be away from you, I have an incredibly hard time every time I have to leave you, despite knowing that you are in great hands and being as loved as ever.

Today there was a moment that will be in my heart forever. We went to the airport to drop off Titia Carla and stopped at the Mall. I sat down to wait for your dad while you and Santana went up and down the escalators. As you went up, you kept looking towards me to make sure that I was still there. As you came down you kept on waving at me and smiling and the second you were off the escalator, you ran towards me, with the biggest and most beautiful smile on your face, with your arms wide open to give me a hug. You repeated this, 5 or 6 times and every time you and I would have this amazing moment when we would looked at each other and you would run towards me to give me the biggest hug... In that moment, it seemed like it was only the 2 of us in this whole universe and nothing else mattered! It was only pure love, emanating from both of us, a love so complete and perfect, which I’d never known existed, not until I laid my eyes on you. May you always continue to search for me, Giulia, and every time you do, I promise that you will find me still there.

I love you so, so much, Mamae