Pics that were promised...

My Lil Sleeping Beauty

Diva-In-Training

Keira after we set up the tree so not happy all the attention wasn't on her

Daddy finally calmed her down

Daddy snapped a picture of us taking a nap after decorating the tree... guess it was a lot of work

Fashionista Debut...

Keira in her coming home ensemble

Already Posing at 1 month

Showing off one of her new tricks - Smiling

Teeth?! Seriously!?!?!

So since about the middle of last week the diva has been acting a little out of character. She has been drooling A LOT, eating her hand A LOT, grinding her lil jaws, and been a little extra fussy. All these signs point to teeth to me!!! How can my little 2 month old be getting teeth already!?! I have been looking on countless medical sites about infant teething and it is possible that my lil diva is getting teeth! Here is an even more disturbing fact: Some infants are born with a full set of teeth... eesh like a lil vampire or something. Well if Keira is getting her teeth, at least she is getting them when being a vampire is cool and stylish. PS. don't tell anyone but i have convinced Chris to go see New Moon with me.. can't reveal how i pulled off this miracle, but I am super excited about it!! More in the life of my new lil diva... and pics soon

xoxo

*kati

My Must-Have Purse of the Season... mixes a little bit of leopard, lotta black, and a whole lot of rockstar... a Nordstrom L.A.M.B. exclusive..

Everyone who knows me, knows my absolute love for ALL things leopard print, except for those cheapy looking leopard print furs (like weirdo plush fleece from JoAnn). Anyway...so for about a few months I have been hinting to Chris that I want a new must have bag for Christmas, he needs a lot of guidance in this department b/c he has no clue that Marc Jacobs isn't just some rando from college, or that Gwen Stefani designs gorgeous must have bags.. he can't tell the difference between my REAL and super expensive L.A.M.B. leopard clutch from my very fake (thanks anyway mom) Dooney and Burke giraffe print hobo (in her defense she just liked the animal print she didn't realize it was a knock-off). Anyway, while me and Keira were on our way out of the mall I thought I would just stop in the handbag department to check to see if there were any sales going on... AND YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT JUMPED OUT AT ME... CALLING ME... SAYING THAT IT HAD TO BE MINE!! The MOST PERFECT medium sized L.A.M.B. bowler you ever did see. It had a perfect shape, fit perfectly under the crook of my arm, had a perfect black background and adorable pink leopard print... just like my clutch except my clutch is perfect summer colors, white, navy, and gold. This is perfect for winter! I couldn't believe my luck. To top it all of the shopgirl told me I should buy it today to get some discount with a Nordies card, here is where the trouble lies. Had I been single, and minus child I would've shelled out immediately NO MATTER THE PRICE, i could go without food/shelter/paying student loans/etc, but now I have a husband who pays the bills and a child who won't go without food/water/shelter in the sake of fashion. So i am saving up my pennies, next week it will be mine. For now I just have to dream, and even after I get her, Chris has to lock it up and save it for Christmas, which I know will make it that much better, but this waiting is absolutely KILLING me!!! However, the fashion gods have spoken and put my ONE MUST HAVE item on super sale so I am able to still be a fashionista on a budget with an ultra trendy purse, and NOT feel guilty for spending the money on it. Man my life has changed SO DRASTICALLY. but I wouldn't change it for all the L.A.M.B. bags in the world.

Patience is so not my thing...

I am learning that patience is a serious virtue that I really need to gain!! Like IMMEDIATELY. Gone are my days of 'running to the store real quick' or running up to the mall to find a quick outfit for work (or back before Keira) for the night out, or running over to a friends house to visit for a little bit. This was rudely brought to my attention when I went to go visit my friend Katie a few days ago... I just loaded Keira up in her carseat, and I wasn't planning on staying longer than an hour, and drove over to Katie's. Well of course when you are only planning to stay an hour, time flies super fast and then you want to stay and hang out, but of course, silly me I left the diaper bag at home (b/c i was just running out for a few)... anyway I get to Katie's and I am there maybe 15 min (mind you I had just changed Keira's diaper and fed her before we left) and she immediately goes to the bathroom... this is my luck. Yet when I lug the diaper bag into quick Wal-Mart or Target runs, even 2 hour expeditions (yes 2 hours is an expedition with a 2 month old) I NEVER NEED IT!!! I am talking NOT ONCE does the princess need her diaper changed, need a pacifier, a bib, a burp cloth NOTHING!!! But the minute I decide to leave it at home for convenience... it is desperately needed. From now on I must remember NO MATTER WHAT ALWAYS pack the diaper bag, the extra 3 bottles (you never know I could get stuck somewhere for that long) and lots of extra clothes... even if it does require me to slow down and hopefully i am granted some Patience in the near future!!

Tis the Season...

So I have been on a quest for a Christmas tree for this year, I've always wanted a perfectly (and when I say perfect I mean matchy matchy) christmas tree. Everything decorated in the same color scheme, including garland, ornaments, ribbon, and star topper. Thankfully, Chris lets me decorate however I want so I didn't get any complaints from him and I got to choose the color scheme, ornaments, etc. I am also planning next week on buying our new matching family stockings... I am going to go on this trip alone so i can get the adorable leopard ones that I know he will fight with me about at the store. Anyway, for this year we got a smallish 6 1/2 foot tree (its barely as tall as Chris but then so are our ceilings) with beautiful chocolate and gold ornaments to match our living room decor. As we started putting up the Christmas tree I got so excited for Keira's first Christmas, it just brought me back to my childhood and how much I loved decorating the tree. From about ages two to seven I would wrap myself up in the gold garland my mom used for our tree, throw on a pair of my mom's high heels, boots or shoes I loved them both, and pretend I was dressing up for a fancy dance or party. (I have been a glam girl from the beginning) and I just can't wait until my lil diva can have fun like this. I dressed Keira up in the garland just for pictures sake eventhough she can't pretend just yet! Next year though hopefully she will get more enthused about the Christmas decorating... this year she cried through most of it, and then acted scared of the tree when me and Chris posed for pics in front of it, but me and Chris still had fun. More xmas decorating to come i am sure... and pictures!

xoxo

The fountain of youth and energy... DIET COKE

So I am from my previous posts, or if you know me even a little bit, you know I LOVE LOVE LOVE diet coke, almost as much as the Dad in My Big Fat Greek Wedding loves Windex. It serioulsy works for everything... lately I have been missing out on some precious hours of beauty sleep (i used to go to bed around 11 jump out of bed around 7 and manage to rush getting ready and to work by 8 if i took a shower the night before) now I not only have to dress and get myself ready... i have my lil pumpkin, who can't go without breakfast, can't pick out her own clothes, or do her own hair, etc. Now even with a night shower, I am usually up around 5 or 5:30 to feed my princess, who then promptly goes back to sleep, get myself together and get her stuff organized, then wake her up (sometimes she does this on her own) get her dressed, and then off the babysitters, then me and chris off to work. Because of this I consume EXTREME amounts of Diet Coke. It is really quite disgusting, but it is the only thing that gets me through the day, a constant fountain of the greatest stuff on earth (sorry snapple but Diet Coke is the real thing.) Anyway, I was sitting at work today (mind wandering) and I realized that I don't remember the last time I drank actual water (this is scary) and I think it was the week i tried breast feeding... it didn't last long (painful and inconvient) and Keira is doing MUCH better since switching and I don't cry every 2 hours and I get to drink as much Diet Coke as I want. Anyway... as I was willing myself to get up and go get a diet coke from the kitchen at work, i came to that sickening realization of not having the slightest clue when I last drank a glass of water and thinking that i really should get that instead, but guess what... I walked straight past the water cooler and right into the kitchen for a diet coke and it was the most delicious drink ever (even better than my old usual vodka water) but hey I figure there is water in diet coke, so i should be ok. But if not oh well, at least I always had energy, was able to look glamourous and awake (due to extreme amounts of caffeine) and a had a good taste in my mouth.

My little diva

So after 24 hours of labor, 2 epidurals (b/c of course I can never have anything go perfectly EVER), and an emergency C-Section, my precious little bit was born on September 16,2009 at 10:29pm. Absolutely NOTHING can prepare you for how much your life changes after your baby is born. I never felt such an overwhelming love and constant worry and concern to make sure they are doing ok. I love her so much it is scary. She was born weighing in at 8lbs 1oz and measuring 19" long and looking just like her mama, and a little like her daddy too. She has an amazing caramel skin tone with beautiful violet eyes (yes they really look violet most of the time) and tons of jet black hair. I just recently took her to the doctors before I went back to work and at 6 weeks she is quite a butterball, she is up to 13lbs and close to 23 inches, hopefully she gets a lil of her daddy's height.

Anyway, I am so ecstatic to finally have her here, the most recent thing she has learned is to smile and laugh. She smiles everytime i kiss her cheek and it just makes my heart melt. She also laughs at funny noises, kisses, and tickles. She is amazing.