Wow this is happening...

So I have mentioned before that I wanted to own a bakery one day. Well my friend Kacy started a Facebook page for us to be one step closer to our dream job and the response has been unlike anything I imagined. We are booked solid with cakes this week and the orders keep coming in! Its amazing! Well last night Kacy informed me that they want us to do an event where we have a table for cupcake tasting. This event is looking like its going to have over 200 people!! Holy exposure event batman! The only thing is it is this TUESDAY! Looks like a long next few days of baking for me. Got to run! Check out my Kaylee Cakes blog to see some of my work! ------>

We have two teeth!

That's right! We are in the middle of teething. Its a blast. The crying and wanting to be held all the time. I mean who wouldn't enjoy that right!?

Kaylee is doing great other than that. She is growing like a weed and has hit the 7 month mark! EEK! She has just started to be able to get on all fours and pretty soon she will be crawling. I am so scared!
We have hired a good friend of ours to nanny Kaylee 3 days a week. I am so happy to have a nanny who I know and know loves Kaylee but it is still bitter sweet to think that soon she will not be coming to work with me everyday, but its time... for both of us.
We knew bringing her to work was temporary and now that she is more mobile, she requires more attention then I can give her at work and she deserves it. There have been days where she plays by herself most of the day cause I am so busy and even though she is ok with it, that is not fair. She should be played with and nurtured. Plus sometimes I leave work on the verge of tears because we have had a particularly hard day and I feel like I have accomplished nothing as far as work goes and then I feel bad because my boss lets me bring her with me and was so patient and understanding with my obscene amount of doctors appointments during my pregnancy that I cant give this job my all and I should. Its going to be hard, but it needs to be done.

I love spring!

Finally! It feels like SPRING! Sunday morning was so nice that we decided to slather the baby in a ton of sunscreen, put on a hat and sunglasses and work in the sand pit we call our front yard. I love being around water so we put in pond! Kaylee helped.

The result was a beautiful start!

Happy Easter!

May you and your family have a very happy Easter!

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Tonight I packed the 3-6 month clothing. This is always so bitter sweet for me.

I cant be the only mom who wants to keep pretty much all her old clothes. Unfortunatly, due to limited storage space (and the fact that with my luck if we decided to have another baby it will be a boy!), hanging on to them is not really an option. I have someone who I hand Kaylees clothes down to but sometimes, when you're packing them away, you come across some outfits that are just so cute or have such fond memories of that you hate to see them go. Packing her preemie and newborn clothes were the worst! I wanted to keep everything. I have decided the only outfits I will keep are the ones that she wears on holidays or special occasions (like coming home from the hospital) this year, sort of a tribute to her first year in fashion. 
Even better are the ones she never even got to wear. You find that cute outfit you forgot about shoved in the back of the drawer and think "oh man! I totally missed out putting her in this one!" Then you throw it in the hand me down box and its hopefully on its way to someone who hopefully will get to cut the tags off and get some use out of it.
Since we are on the topic, I cant began to tell you how many 3-6 moth outfits this child had. It was borderline crazy really. I think it was mostly due to the fact that she got a ton of clothes for Christmas. (It was awesome.)
But as I was washing and putting away the 6-9, I really got to enjoy all the cute stuff she has in this new size, I mean seriously how cute are these? 

Plus I decided there are some necessities missing. Looks like its time to do some shopping!

Itty bitty little shoe shopping!

I decided that Kaylee needs some shoes. So you wouldn't believe how excited I was to see Heather at Mommy saves money  latest giveaway! These far to cute Mary Janes!

There are numerous ways to enter so visit her blog and take a look! You might just be able to put a pair of these on your baby's little feet for free!

How on earth...

Kaylee is 6 months old! How on earth did that happen so fast? I feel like it was just yesterday I met this gorgeous little monkey!
She has recently become very fond of a wooden spoon that my mom let her play with. She takes it everywhere. I told Chris we spend a ton of money on toys and she wants a wooden spoon. Ha ha go figure.

She is also sitting! (WOOOHOOO!!) I am still too scared to leave her without me spotting but she isn't falling over as much as she used to. Where did my little new born baby go? 

To mark her half birthday I decided to post a vintage Kaylee picture. This was her first time in a car seat. I forget how tiny she really was. I still question if this car seat was even safe for a baby so little.

Its an unhealthy obsession really...

I have admitted this before. Cupcakes. I love them. I want a tattoo of a cupcake to symbolize Kaylee. I want to open a gourmet cupcake shop. All the flavors of cupcakes you can think of. Today being Saint Patty's day I want to make Guinness and Bailey’s Irish Cream Cupcakes. (If Kaylee allows of course!)
This weekend, Chris was working on his truck and I was left to go to the store with Kaylee alone to scoure the shelves for a birthday present for our niece who was turning two. As I looked at and contemplated between Barbies and dolls I looked down, and behind boxes of Moxie Girlz, I found this gem! I can not tell you how excited I was over this pillow. I seriously almost died right there in wal-mart.
It was then that I realized, I love shopping for Kaylee more than myself anymore. It was the same excitement I feel as I try on a new set of heels or get a new shell for my Miche Bag.
Dont get me wrong... I still have an undying love for the smell of new shoes and the sound you hear as you unwrap the tissue paper inside the box just to see the beautiful new heels stare back at you saying "WEAR ME!" (yes I am also obsessed with shoes but that is a whole other post.)
Now its the excitement of "How cute will this look on her!" or "This would look so good in her room!" or the one I muttered to myself as I put the pillow in our cart "Kaylee needs this!" NEEDS this. Like she will cease to exsist if she doesnt have this adorable pillow with light up cheeks.(mommy wants this is more like it.)
I used to spend my time shopping online for cute shoes, purses, clothes or stuff for the house. Now I spend all my on-line shopping time at Etsy.com (if you have never been on this site, you should go... after you finish reading my blog of course;).) looking at baby clothes, bows for her hair, and toys.
I cant tell you the last time I went shopping for myself. I cant tell you the last time I bought a cute new pair of way to expensive heels. And I wouldn't have it any other way. .

(p.s. Dont forget to vote for Kaylee and I on mommy blogs. Just click the mommy blog button to the right-------->.)

Things look a little bit diffent around here...

I have decided to change the name of my blog to The Cupcake Chronicles. I have an unhealthy obsession with everything cupcake. I have called Kaylee my cupcake since I found out I was pregnant and figured this to be more suiting. I also changed the decor to something more cupcake-ish.

Anyway moving on. Holy Milestones Batman!
All in one week, Kaylee has turned 5 months old, started holding her own bottle & will be sitting all on her own very soon. I have very mixed feelings about this. I want her to be my baby forever. She is growing up far to fast.
We have also started rice cereal. She wasn't sure about it at first.
Now I cant seem to feed her fast enough! She loves it. Applesauce is next!
I try to stay away from this subject since my blog readers (If there are many out there)probably couldn't possibly care less about my baby's bowel movement (when your a parent you learn to discuss poo like your talking about the weather but I digress) but can I just say, the smell of baby poo changes drastically once they start rice cereal. I know it is only going to get worse but wow it was a shocking surprise.

I love planning parties. As a matter of fact I would love to be a party planner. I must say I think I am pretty good at it. I have started to think about Kaylee's 1st birthday. (I know its kind of early but I cant wait to plan this one and look how fast the first 6 month of her life is flying by!) I have a few themes in mind. One is "Our pretty princess" another is " Under the Sea" and the other is " Wild Jungle". Please feel free to vote and leave other suggestions in a comment. I cant wait!

I am one bad blogger..

Its been a while since I have posted anything here but I have been very busy. Adjusting to life with a baby takes time and as soon as we have a routine, her habits seem to change. She is staying awake most of the time now and loves to play and give kisses. She kisses me and dad and all her stuffed animals and now she even wants to kiss Sasha... It took me three months to teach Sasha not to kiss Kaylee now how long is it going to take to teach Kaylee not to kiss Sasha? Sasha, of course was loving every minute of it!

Now for some deep thoughts I have had recently.. Along with change must come some adaptation right? Well I often wonder what it would be like to be a stay at home mom (SAHM). Let me just say as of now with current financial situations and 2 mortgages (hopefully only one by the end of this month) this is not a possibility without drastically changing our lifestyle, but I have been giving it some thought. (incase some co-workers are reading this I have no intentions of leaving my current position) I am sure this maybe a "grass is always greener" scenario but here are my thoughts.

Lets start with being a working mom. I must say I am extremely lucky to have a boss who is very understanding and lets me bring Kaylee to work with me. I love having her right here with me and knowing she is safe. Everyone says I am so lucky and I am. That said, I must point out that there are days when I have a hard time with this. For the most part she is very well behaved and I am able to get all my work done no problem but there are also days where I feel like I am going to pull out my hair by the end of the day. Days where all she wants me to do is hold her and I am so busy with work I cant do that. She, of course, doesn't understand and is fussy all day. There are days where I feel guilty because I will be very busy and look down and realize she has been in her swing for about an hour. She is happy and fine but I start to feel guilty like I should be entertaining her or working on her sitting up right.. interacting with her in some way other than just talking to her. I am sure this bothers me more than it does her but I cant help feeling like I am neglecting her.
Now there is going to come a day where Daycare is going to be inevitable. One day I am going to wake up and say I cant do this and watch after a mobile baby around the office all day. The sum of money being saved on Daycare because I bring her to work is a pretty large sum as well. (if you haven't had a need to look into daycare prices I have forewarned you. not cheap and if it is you probably don't want to have your baby there, but I digress)I have always said if I am working to pay for daycare, I might as well stay home, right? Well I make a bit more than daycare would cost. I have had some offers from family to help a couple days a week and don't really want to pay for daycare for just a a couple days. Most places still charge a full rate for drop ins.
Now lets talk about when I go home.. quitting time hits I pack up the baby and her stuff make the 45 minute (give or take traffic) commute home go to the gym and then I still have to do stuff around my house and lets just say sometimes I feel like I have 2 full time jobs and a household to maintain. Chris helps with Kaylee Dinner and cleaning and the animals but there is still so much to do and so many hours in a day. Sometimes I get home and am just overwhelmed.
Now since I have no real experience of a stay at home mom (except the weeks after having her) I have to think realistically that they get a lot of these same feelings. So I am not sure how many people even look at this but it would be nice to get some insight on the whole SAHM side. Just to compare.

Finally!

I have been wanting to get pictures done of Kaylee for some time now. I wanted them to be done before she got much bigger. On Jan 17, Richard Rieckenberg and his wife Maria came to our house to take pictures of our family & I am loving the results! Now to narrow down which ones to print. I cant decide I want them all! Help! Click HERE to see the photos we have narrowed it down to.

what a diffrence a year makes....

2009 is over & I must say I am sad to see it go.
In February, I accidentally discovered I was going to have Kaylee. How does one accidentally discover she is pregnant you may ask. I went to the doctor regarding what we thought were complications due to my second miscarriage and they decided to do an ultrasound. There she was. I was shocked, scared, surprised and excited all at the same time. The thought of another miscarriage scared me to death.
The first trimester was hard. I was so sick & exhausted. I couldn't eat or smell anything. That was by far the worst part of my pregnancy.
Then I was told I would have to see a specialist once a week & my Kidney doctor once a month in the second trimester. My year became a sea of appointments that even I had a hard time keeping straight. Between the Ob, pregnancy specialist & my nephrologist I felt like I was always in one waiting room or another. The cool thing about the pregnancy specialist is I got an ultrasound every week. I got to see her development every week. (I think I may just try to look at it as the positive side to the out of pocket expense we had for this doctor thanks to my craptastic health insurance plan.) In June we closed on our new house. (Oh Yeah just so you know if you want to buy a foreclosure.... buckle up cause it will be a long bumpy dragged out ride in a sea of papers.)Chris went in a gutted the whole thing. I felt horrible I couldn't do much to help as my belly was getting bigger and bigger I even when I tried to paint I would get dizzy going up and down on the ladder. The good thing about the 2nd trimester was the only times I got sick anymore was when I got hungry or at the sight/smell/taste of hot dogs or bananas. The best part, finding out Kaylee was a girl. I was thrilled to just still be pregnant at that point & would have been thrilled either way but when they said it looked like a girl, I just saw a big sea of dresses and bows for her hair.
On August 22nd we had a baby shower. My mom, Kathy, Kacy, Marcella and my sister did a great job! It was beautiful and the theme was "Our Cupcake, Kaylee" cause I called the baby cupcake since I knew I was pregnant. There were tons of fake cupcakes, (Kacy mom made them and they looked so real we had to tell people not to try and eat them).
Exactly a month later (to the day), Kaylee arrived. Chris finished the new house and we moved,with a new born baby, to the house we now call home & we love it there. I am not sure if its Kaylee or what but this house feels like home to me.
So for a year that started with such a negative vibe with my miscarriage right before Christmas 08, It sure did end on a very positive note. Cant wait to see what 2010 has in store!