Cake!

Not that kind of cake! Maybe I'm just not as "in" the baby loop as I'd like to be, but I didn't know until recently that Petunia Pickle Bottom had this other line called "Cake"!

A very sweet friend sent me a fabulous PPB diaper bag before Baby Girl's arrival and I have loved it! Sometimes a mom just doesn't feel like dragging around a big "look at me, I'm a diaper bag" diaper bag and PPBs definitely fit the bill on those days! On top of being adorable, they are super functional, too.

But, anyway, back to "Cake"! I discovered them on a visit to my favorite local baby shop, The Plaid Rabbit. 

I mean, really, I can totally imagine one of these with a Jackie O outfit, big sunglasses and adorable baby!

Welcome to Haute Tot & Mama

Here's the long and short of it: I'm a shopper. I'm a traveller. I'm a web surfer. I'm a wife. I'm a mama. And I'm high maintenance. My husband (and whole rest of my family) calls me that and I just honestly can't deny it!

Before Baby Girl came along, shopping and traveling were my favorite things to do. My favorite bags were Gucci, shoes were Jimmy Choo and vacay spot was Paris. Now that I'm a mama, nothing has changed! I still love pretty things, pretty places and now, our pretty baby!

My sweet baby girl is nearly 8 months old and since the moment we found out we were having a baby after 4 years of marriage, I started scouring the web for the best of all things related to baby. I searched endlessly for cribs, diaper bags, clothes, strollers, baby bottles, travel ideas, you get the picture. I am in no way an "expert" after being a mama for 8 months, but I've decided I want to share everything I've found over the last 18 months in hopes of helping other moms become haute mamas with haute tots!

Literally two years before our pregnancy, I knew exactly which diaper bag I simply had to have when I finally became a mom. I'm not kidding about my love of Gucci. My husband proposed in Italy (on a gondola, bliss). Although the proposal was certainly the highlight of the trip, a stop in Gucci to pick up my first Gucci bag & wallet was definitely a close second and so my love with Gucci began. Obviously when it finally came time to need that diaper bag, my hubby knew just where to go!

Have you ever seen such a beautiful diaper bag? This particular one is no longer available, but there are a few variations available on the Gucci website as well as Gucci boutiques and fine department stores.

Gucci Messenger Diaper Bag

I can tell you first hand that this diaper bag is fabulous! Not only does it look so much more chic than they typical diaper bag, it has multiple pockets for organization and can really hold all of Baby Girl's "stuff"! And maybe my favorite aspect of all are the strap snaps for attaching it to a stroller. It looks great with both our Juicy Couture Maclaren stroller and our Bugaboo Cameleon, too! I'll save those for a later post!

Please come back and see what other haute finds I have for haute mamas and tots!