happy baby!! as some of you know i (chey) gave birth to a healthy baby girl, fiona rae, on december 6, 2012. i promise to share some photos of my beautiful sweetie very soon! life has been a quite chaotic and i’m slowly catching up with my other love, loveleigh, once again! dee has been doing an absolutely incredible job holding down the fort while i get the hang of being a mom. thought i’d share a few of my favorite baby items so far and some things i hope to purchase or create soon…

{a} with just some mini canvases, plastic animal toys, paint and glitter you can have a bright and bold animal art wall in the nursery. think i might try this! diy instructions from veetje; {b} fiona absolutely loves swinging and listening to her ipod in her 4moms mamaroo, available at buy buy baby; {c} these aden + anais bamboo swaddles are so luxuriously soft and come in the best patterns; {d} i need to get a hold of this book, mom inc. as i try to balance work and family from home, available through chronicle books; {e} these colorful wall knobs would be the perfect solution to display her pretty dresses in her cozy nursery, by the land of nod; {f} i love the design and function of this lawn bottle drying rack, available at buy buy baby; {g} fiona’s storybooks fit perfectly in between these gold pig bookends, from cb2.