florence, como, and more baby journaling...

florence. 

september 22, 2011.

hello my sweet baby!

today is september 22, 2011 and we are still on our trip around italy!

daddy and i are having the time of our lives and you have made this trip even sweeter!

we were so excited to come here and see everything and now that we know about you, it seems like none of it matters.

all i want to do is stroll around and hold daddy's hand and talk about you all day. 

yesterday we rented a car and drove all over toscana (tuscany). 

it was so peaceful and beautiful. 

the mountains were covered in grape vineyards and olive trees. it looks exactly like you would imagine, just bigger and grander than i ever pictured. 

that's how i feel about everything here. 

i have given up on trying to take pictures of it all because there is just no way to capture how grand everything really is. we have started taking pictures with me pointing at my belly though, to show that you were here too!

we drove one of those little fiat smart cars yesterday and it was so cute. 

i was glad that daddy was driving because the roads and traffic here are crazy!

but it was worth it for the amazing views that we saw.

we stopped to eat lunch at the most darling little restaurant ever!

it was right on the side of a mountain and overlooked the most amazing view of the tuscan countryside. 

i was a little bit jealous because daddy got to drink what he said was the best wine.

but that's ok, you and me enjoyed our pasta just fine :)

i really want to be healthy while i'm pregnant with you so that you will be healthy too!

i have quit drinking wine and soda, and your dad is currently having to smoke his italian cigar outside

on the balcony with the door shut.

he tried to get me to go sit out there with him but i told him that you and i don't like smoke haha

i can't wait to get home and read some book about being pregnant and healthy.

i have so many questions!

today we are in cadenabbia, off the coast of lake como. 

i wish you could see what we saw today. 

i think this may be the most beautiful place in the world. 

at least the most beautiful place i've ever been to. 

daddy and i keep going back and forth about if it's prettier here or in california, but today i officially decided that it's here.

the mountains are so majestic, and the way they are sitting around the lake doesn't even look real.

it's just stunning. 

you will have to come back here someday for sure.

maybe with us, or maybe with your own sweetheart. it is so relaxing and romantic.

[balcony in our room]

[view from our room]

i still don't feel like i'm pregnant, just kind of tired. 

we had so many activities planned to do everyday of this trip and i don't think we have done half of them. ha!

we ran around like crazy for the first two days and after that we just decided that we love it so much, we know we will come back here for sure. 

so we stopped trying to cram everything into just this one trip and decided to just spend more time relaxing. 

we have taken a nap almost everyday and i love it!

i am not going to want to go back to work when i get home because i am getting so spoiled with this nap time!

[train station in milan]

while we were riding the train yesterday, daddy and i were watching a movie on the ipad. 

one of the characters said a bad word and daddy paused the movie and turned to me and said, 

"do you think we should stop watching this so the baby doesn't hear that kind of language?"

i laughed and told him you didn't even have ears yet!

haha

he is going to be such a good daddy. 

we have been calling you all kinds of funny names too. 

our little meatball. 

our little souvenir.

the bambino. 

daddy calls me "monkey" all the time so now he calls us both that.

he'll say, "come on monkeys, daddy is hungry!"

he has been talking to you too (i don't have the heart to keep reminding him you can't hear him yet). 

he will roll over first thing in the morning and rub my tummy and say, "good morning to my babies!"

it is the sweetest thing and just melts my heart. 

we promise you will have a better name than "meatball" though. 

we decided on what your name will be yesterday and now i just can't wait to find out fi you are a boy or a girl!

i LOVE both the names so much!

almost as much as i love you :)