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. .

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