2 Weeks Already

Well, Leda is already almost two weeks old.  Crazy how time just flies.  Come to think of it, Milo will be 2 years old in May.  How'd that happen?  Anyway, I wanted to play some catch up and share some of my favorite Leda photos from her first week of life.  She's been a total trooper hanging in there with her photographer mama.

Day 4

Day 4

Day 4 (Thank you Christian for this wonderful photo.)

Day 4

Day 4

Day 4

1 Week

1 Week

1 Week

1 Week

1 Week (Yes, that's a real smile.  She's been smiling since day one.)

6 Days

6 Days

1 Week

Yeah! She Has Arrived

Leda Imogene Chotkowski
Born this past Monday, January 17
8 pounds, 9 ounces, 21 inches long
...and she's got the bestest big brother in the whole wide world.

This Weeks Uncertainty, Today's Achievement

Well, this week has been full of uncertainty as I've been preparing for today's wedding open house at Ramekins Culinary School and Event Center here in Sonoma while approaching 7 days of being over-due.  I've been expecting the birth of my second baby at any moment for the past several weeks and when I agreed to participate in todays open house, I suspected I'd be working with the challenge of having a newborn baby's schedule to work around.  To my surprise, there's no baby and I was able to fully participate in todays events.

Ramekin's is a wonderful little event center and culinary school and I feel honored to be connected to them.  As part of a small set of vendors invited to participate in the open house, I was able to meet several couples shopping for their perfect wedding experience.  Being my first show of this kind, I was eager to see what it was all about and present my services.  So in a way, thank you baby girl for not making your way into this world today.

Thank you to my good friend Jessica for being there to support me and being willing to work the booth alone in the case I could not make the occasion.  You totally rock!

Here's my booth, and some pretty flower arrangements created by Catherine Scott Flowers.

Mystery Beach

I love this mystery beach.  I love it so much, I'm keeping the name selfishly to myself.  If you ask, I'll most likely disclose it's location, but be warned, the windy and steep road leading to this beach is unmarked, but surely worth the discovery.  For how often I venture to the beach with the family, I rarely stay to watch it's magnificent colors at the fall of day.  Wowza!

I kinda sort of was hoping this beach visit would stimulate some sort of maternal instinct to promote a water birth.  No luck.  ***For those who are just tuning in, I'm awaiting the newest arrival of our family at any moment now.***