Epicurean Mom: Lola

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Colleen Riley Photography

I wanted to share with you a dear friend and amazing photographer...Colleen Riley Photography. She recently took some amazing photos of my girls. Enjoy!

1st Birthday Party Sneak Peek

Here's a sneak peek of my daughter's butterfly birthday party last week! More to come in the next few weeks!

My little butterfly is turning ONE! I usually try to homemake as much as I can. Being a mom of 2 sometimes it doesn't always workout that way. Although I love to make themed invites so I usually try to set aside the time for them. This year Lola's 1st birthday theme will be a gold and pink butterfly party.

The butterflies were very easy to make. All you need is:

A large butterfly hole punch, thick gold cardstock paper, super fine pink and gold glitter, elmer's glue (or any similar glue), craft sponge, 3 small cupcake liners and a wood stick.

1. Punch out as many butterflies as desired, set aside. Place 3 small cupcake liners in a row. In the first liner pour a small amount of gold glitter and half as much pink.

2. In the second liner pour a small amount of gold glitter. Repeat with pink glitter to create a 50/50 mix.

3. In the third liner pour a small amount of pink glitter and half as much gold glitter. Mix all 3 liners with wooden stick.

4. Fill in butterfly body with a thin layer of glue and cover with gold glitter. Shake off excess.

5. Use glue and sponge to coat the butterfly wings with a thin layer of glue.

6. You will work from the inside out. Sprinkle the innermost part of the wings with the glitter mixture that contains more gold glitter. Next to that sprinkle the 50/50 mix and finish the outermost part with the glitter that has more pink.

And Viola...beautiful, glittery butterflies!

7. Let dry and apply it to the invite with a round foam adhesive.

Lola 10 months

Every month is flying by! My lovely Lola Belle is 10 months! She is now saying: "Hi", "Dog" and "That!" Yes, "That!" I'm assuming since we point at EVERY object and say "What's THAT!?" She has now adapted that term. Lola is coming up on her 1st Birthday and lots of birthday planning has begun! I recently started making her birthday invitations, which will be posted very soon! Happy 10 months sweet Lola Belle!

Tutu Sisters

We finally had a break from the constant rain we've been having the past few days, so I took the opportunity to dress the girls in their tutus and snap a "few" shots....

Blooper shot....

(Kyla stuck an acorn on Lola's head just as Lola did a high-speed crawl away from her and Kyla leaped to grab it off her head)

Rebel Pictures

Lola Belle

Lola Belle

Born 05/28/10 @ 11:11pm

7lbs 19 1/4in

Bill, Kyla and I are so excited to announce the birth of our Baby girl! I was induced with Cervidil on 05/28/10 @9am. There was a 50/50 chance this method would induce labor. Between 2-4 hours after insertion of the suppository cramps are supposed to start then 4-6 hours contractions should start etc... Both 2,4 & 6 hours flew by and still nothing!! Everyone was pretty confident I would be there for quite sometime and would probably have to be given pitocin. THEN at about 3:30 the contractions started! They were very mild and everything progressed very quickly. At about 7 the contractions were almost unbearable but I thought it was still to early for an epidural. Within an hour I was shaking from the pain and requested an epidural. Unfortunately the anesthesiologist was already requested by another patient so they said I needed to wait for about 30-45min. Finally at around 9 the anesthesiologist, Dr. Gordon, came in and administered the epidural. I was blown away by how amazing he was! I could feel and move my legs and feel every contraction but not the pain. After the epidural was in place the nurse checked me and I was at 6cm when I was 3cm right before the epidural! At about 10pm I told the nurse I could feel a lot of pressure and it felt like the baby was going to slip out. She checked me and I was 10cm. Dr. Ramos was with another patient so I had to hold on tight, literally! Dr. Ramos came into our room at around 10:30 and with a few short pushes Lola was born at 11:11! Everything went smoothly but the nurse and my Ob said it was very good we induced on Friday. My labs showed my platelet's were low and my liver enzymes were slightly elevated, which is a sign of preeclampsia. Other then the labs coming back sightly abnormal I felt great and Lola was perfectly healthy!

Waiting for Lola's arrival