Going to the Zoo & Going to the Chapel

Just wanted to post a few photos from a recent trip to the zoo, as well as from last Saturday, when Emilia thoroughly enjoyed shopping for a flower girl dress for Tío Jojo and Tara’s wedding.

The look on Emilia’s face (well, the reflection in the mirror) is so sweet in the picture below, although I’m sure it’s hard to see in this small size.

Unique Fashion Sense

Emilia seems to have developed her own unique sense of fashion lately and it quite opinionated when it comes to clothes. Above is an outfit she put together. What was the occasion? A trip to the grocery store….where, I might add, she wore her sunglasses the whole time (which she wanted nothing to do with during the summer sunny months).
And here she is modeling the hula skirt her grandma brought her back from a recent trip to Hawaii. She likes to pull the skirt up under her armpits and declare, “It’s like a bra!”

Again with the sunglasses on a recent trip to the park on a particularly “warm” February day.

The shoes that came with her flamenco dress (which she’s outgrown, much to her dismay) now fit just perfectly, and she can’t get enough of them. She loves the noise they make when she dances around the hardwood floor (she’s even learned to say “hardwood floor”). People sure look at you funny when you go furniture shopping with a two-year-old wearing heels!

With a favorite stuffed animal’s hat and scarf, and her favorite “shiny” purse.

Boy Parts!

It’s a boy! Here’s one of the ultrasound images from my 20-week appointment, which was almost two weeks ago now. The technician hadn’t had the probe thingy on my stomach more than two seconds when he said, “Those are boy parts.” Agustín was still getting situated under the pile that was my winter outdoor wear and purse. “Did you hear what he said?” I asked him. “No. What?” he asked innocently. “He said our baby has boy parts!” That time he got it. It was pretty funny. And sure enough, the “boy parts” were pretty darn clear in the ultrasound. In an effort to not begin embarrassing our son before he is even born though, I won’t post the ultrasound that explicitly points out these “boy parts.”

Emilia understands that mommy has a “big baby boy” (a.k.a. “big baby boy brother”) in her stomach, and she no longer insists that she has a baby in her tummy too. (I hope she’s not demonstrating some type of psychic powers or sisterly intuition with the “big” part, especially since her dad was a ten-pound baby.) Oftentimes, when we ask Emilia “What’s your name?” or “How old are you?” she responds, “I’m a sister!” (her use of the present tense demonstrates she definitely doesn’t get the whole gestational period concept yet). She’s even pointed out that the baby is “Papa’s son,” which took me by total surprise when she said it because I’d only explained this to her once. She likes blowing on my stomach to give her baby brother “zerberts.”

If anyone has baby boy name ideas (only requirement is that they work well—preferably are pronounced very similarly—in English and Spanish), please post them in a comment or e-mail!