I'm 22 years old and am happily married to my best friend, Kamil. We had our first baby, a little girl, on May 28th, 2008 (my birth story is in my blog section). Her name is Alyvia Paige and she's the most beautiful creation I've ever set my eyes on. I'm so blessed to be her mommy!

Alyvia is now 18 months old and she changes every day. She's walking, running, she says "No", "yuck", "Mama", "Dada", "papa", "hi", "bye bye", "duck", "dog" (she also barks!), "baba", "I love you", "done", "bubbles", "balloon", "baby" and her current favorite: "no!". She has her own personality and her own lil' attitude! She's an amazing little girl, a quick learner and she grins a grin that could melt the very heart of Antartica.

I've been a member of this site since I was around 6 weeks pregnant with Alyvia and am now coming back because I'm pregnant again :D I had one miscarriage before getting pregnant with Alyvia and I'm praying that this is a healthy pregnancy and won't end in tears. I'm due March 25th, 2010 and am SO excited. Alyvia and her little brother will be 22 months apart. Hopefully they'll be best friends!

I look forward to chatting with you ladies and making new friends! My first time around on here, I made 7 very dear, very close friends and we still talk every single day. We actually have our own message thread on facebook :)

Congrats to the new mommies and mommy-to-bes, & good luck to those TTC!

Birthday Princess

: The Princess Updates :

*Monday, Oct. 24th, 2009: Alyvia will be 17 months on Wednesday. TIME FLIES TOO QUICKLY! She's her own little person now and it makes me sad! I'm very happy that she's developing like she should and that she's such a beautiful little girl, but I'm sad that she's no longer my little baby - that I can't hold her and cuddle her without her giggling and trying to push me away, so that she can get down and run around! I cherish the moments that her and I have now, as a "big girl". She's running finally. And it's SO CUTE. She can't do a full out run yet, but when she tries, she kind of turns her body left and right, back and forth, and she runs and her right hand is bent at the wrist and it flails to the side and in front of her as she goes :) Her favorite word now is "baby". She calls EVERYTHING baby. But she really recognizes what a baby is and will point, get all excited and repeat "baby! baby!" over and over. She will pat my tummy and say "baby" too, but I don't think she realizes yet what's really going on. She's saying "papa" & "deto" (grandpa for my dad and step-dad), "mamama" for grandma, "mamaw" for grandma (my mom lol) and of course she says mommy and daddy. And she's learning how to say "nasty"... LOL! She thinks daddy is nasty lately (so does mommy! hahah!) and she will grab the bottom of her shirt and pull it up so she can hold it over her nose :) That's my girl!!

*Thursday, Nov. 26th, 2009: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! Good food, great family, etc. On to the good news!! My mom bought Alyvia a princess potty last night.. Kamil sat her on it this morning while we were trying to get ready to head to my grandma's for dinner. He had asked me how to make her go pee... LOL. I told him to just tell her to go pee pee on the potty. When I'm peeing, I tell her "See sis? Mommy is going pee pee on the potty. You're a big girl now and sissy will go pee pee on the potty!" so she kind of knows what I'm talking about... hahah. But he told her and right away he yells 'MAL! I THINK SHE WENT!!" So I ran downstairs and lifted her leg and SHE WENT PEE!! Holy cow we were so excited hahaha. We both jumped up and started yelling and cheering for her, telling her what a good girl she was and how proud of her we are. She got her favorite candy as a reward - the hershey peppermint kisses - and then sat back down to try again LMAO. She's been pulling her diaper off for about a week and a half now and has peed in her crib once and my bed TWICE. rofl. So I was SO READY to get her potty trained so she'd quit!! She pulls it off when she's wet... so I know that's a huge sign - she doesn't like the feeling of being in a wet diaper. I'M SO PROUD OF HER!!! So I have to brag hahah. I'm hoping we can have her trained by the time this little boy gets here... It'll be great not to have to buy 2 different sizes of diapers all the time!! And I think that with her potty trained BEFORE he gets here, it'll be a lot easier to do so than if we were to try after he gets here - cuz she might want to act like a baby again to get mommy's attention... Hope you all had a great stuffing your face day. OVER AND OUT!! I'm so tired and I'm shopping tomorrow :D

Monday, February 15th, 2010: Happy Valentines Day yesterday :)

Just wanted to update on Alyvia real quick. She will be 21m at the end of this month and she is growing into such a little GIRL! *sad face* She has great manners (most of the time anyway.. haha!) and has quite the vocabulary now. Usually it's just her daddy and I that can understand what she says, since she can't pronounce most words the way we do, but it's like we have our own secret langauge.. kinda makes me feel special :) Once in a while she will get frustrated if we ask her what she said 2+ times, and will just grab our hand, say "mon!" (c'mon) and will drag us to what she's talking about.. It's so cute. She weighs 26lbs and is around 34 inches tall I think. She's tall and thin like her daddy - completely healthy though! I'm getting tired of her doctor and others telling me she isn't healthy because she doesn't weigh "as much as the chart says she should weigh". GAH! I don't care what a stupid CHART says. It's just an average. I know they can tell she's healthy... every check up she gets... SHE'S HEALTHY! But of course, she doesn't "follow the chart" like she should... Well they can kiss my butt. Her cheeks are rosy, she's a crazy active kid and plays all the time (not ADHD active, but you know how 2yr olds are) and she's still somewhat chunky. Plus... I'm her MOTHER! I would know if my own child was healthy or not. And speaking of healthy... Last month, she was sick for THREE weeks straight :( It started out as a little congestion... I was giving her over the counter meds to try and clear it up so she could breath... After a week and a half it wasn't cleared up and she ended up getting a fever.. took her to the doctor (not her pedi, it was the weekend and too late, so we had to take her to a branch of the hospital) and they said she was fine.. didn't need antibiotics. I argued with them, cuz I honestly felt she did.. but they still didn't give any. She had a fever, at the highest of 102.7, ALL WEEKEND LONG. I was so freaking mad!!! Took her to her pedi on a Tuesday, she gave her Zyrtec to try and clear it up... Which is dumb because she had a STUFFY nose, not a runny nose (zyrtec is like an allergy med. helps with runny noses and itchy eyes) and it only made things worse. They also gave her a Hep A vacc shot, even though I didn't want them to, and she got sick again that night. I think it was a combination of getting the vaccine and not feeling well - her fever came back and went up to 102 again. I took her to the doctor the next night (her fever had broke but she still wasn't better) and we FINALLY got some antibiotics! By that time, she not only couldn't breath through her nose, but she had a really wet cough and you could tell just by looking at her that she was miserable. They gave us... ahhh I forget. But it's a med that she takes once a day for three days. The rest gets thrown out. I think it starts with an A? Maybe? I don't remember. But at least she got one! Shortly after she finished her antibiotic she was better. THANK YOU LORD! I felt like the world's worst mother... My baby girl was sick and there was nothing I could do but hold and cuddle her, let her watch a movie if she wanted, and read her 57 books a day :( All I wanted to do was take what she had and give it to myself... so at least she would feel better! I pray every day and thank God for taking it from her. It was the first time ever that she was sick... and I pray that she never gets sick again! I can't handle it! And then, the last 3 days, she's been VERY constipated... that was a horrible ordeal too. Didn't have to take her to the doctors thank God, but we had to stock up on prune and apple juice and my mom even bought some suppositories, just in case I needed them. She pooped before we could give her juice or anything else to help her go, but oh my word... She cried horribly as she tried to and then started to SCREAM once she started to poop... AHHHH I've never felt so helpless! I just squatted next to her (she was standing on the computer chair for some reason, but was shaking and screaming real bad) and I just made grunting noises and grunted along with her, like I was trying to poop too - just to encourage her to push hard to try and get it out. Ohhhh you have no idea how excited I was once she did!! I praised and praised her, gave her some elmo valentine stickers and once she was changed, her daddy brought her a little piece of chocolate because she did such a good job... hahah. That was Saturday night. We had her drink a cup of prune/apple juice and we've been giving her a lot of fruit and vegetables. Sunday, she pooped THREE times!!! The first one was still kind of hard, but not has rock solid as the Saturday night, and the last two were normal. I've never been so excited about a poop in my life!! If any of you mommies have ever had to deal with this type of thing... You know exactly what I'm talking about! Here is the most recent pic of Alyvia, and a pic of what "she" got her daddy for Valentines Day :)

xoxox

I make tutus!! I don't have my own website as of yet, but I do have an etsy account... I'm trying to get that up and running. But right now, I'm taking orders through my email. The above pictures are just a couple of what I've done so far. I even made one for an 8 week old Golden Retriever!

-12 months and up, the recommended length is 9 inches (as shown in pics - if you want a different length, please specify. Newborns are generally done with 5-6 inches.. it's cute and poofy!)
-Each tutu has a bow on the back and has ribbon on 3 sides of the tutu
-If you are ordering one, I need the baby's waist size. I don't have an "average" recommended size for this, as each baby is different, depending on their weight and age.
-I also need your color choices! I can do all one color, 2 colors, or multiple colors. Just tell me what colors you want and I can more than likely do it. If I don't have a specific color, I will let you know.
-I can put flowers, faux diamonds and those types of details on the tutu. If you have something in mind, let me know and we'll figure out the cost. (again, bows are included!)
-I'm trying to get up and running.. and once I do that I'll be adding in headbands/hair bows. So please stay tuned!
-Any questions, and to place orders, please email me! pinkb00h@yahoo.com (in the subject line, PLEASE put in something about a tutu, so that I know and don't pass it off as junk mail!)

**Prices generally run between $25 and $30 - adding the diamonds, flowers, etc will up it just a little.. no more than 3 dollars**