Two sisters got pregnant at the same time – enabling them to recreate this adorable childhood photo of them with balloons up their dresses.
Bri Dietz, 35, and her sister Chaulet Barba, 33, were ecstatic when they discovered they were both expecting.
Bri immediately remembered a photo taken, when the pair were just four and six years old, pretending to be pregnant with balloon bumps.
She knew that moment had to be recreated – so once they were both sporting bumps, they took a matching snap.
Bri gave birth to her daughter Goldie Dietz, now two, and Chaulet had one-year-old Gemma Barba just a few months later.
So to complete the set the two cousins posed in a photo identical to their mums’ – with balloons under their nightdresses.
Instagram influencer Bri said: “It was so special to go through it together. It was actually a dream come true.
“It made it feel not only like it came full circle from playing that as a kid, but it felt like a special sister moment.
“We got lucky to have a chance to recreate that.”
Bri and Chaulet were very close growing up, playing dolls and pretending to be mums, and even now they talk on the phone every day.
“We chose to share a twin bed every night even though we each had our own,” said Bri, from San Diego, California, USA.
Already four months pregnant with her third daughter with husband Bobby, 35, she found out Chaulet was pregnant just minutes after she’d taken the test.
Nurse Chaulet lives in Walnut Creek, about seven hours away from her sister, but they both knew they had to recreate that one funny photo from their childhood.
Bri said: “When we found out we were pregnant together I said ‘do you remember that picture?’
“It immediately cropped up in my brain, probably 25 years later and I still remember it!
“She dug all around and found it and I was so excited about it, I thought it would be the cutest thing.
“And we had the curlers in our hair which was a product of it being 1990!”
Bri gave birth to Goldie Dietz on October 6 2019, and Chaulet gave birth to Gemma Barba on January 25 2020.
The little girls are now as close as their mums are, and also love playing with their dolls together.
Mum-of-three Bri said: “So many girls can relate to that sweet childhood when you’re innocently playing with your siblings.
“I hope it makes people remember that sweet time when you’re in this little world of your own with your siblings, and we can’t mimic that now in our busy day-to-day lives.
“But that bond and that core is always there between us.
“Even though we live seven hours away, the basis of what our relationship runs on now all these years later is still there, even into our 30s.”