This little guy is the cousin of this little girl, but he decided to come about three weeks early, so he was quite a bit smaller than she! He was SO good to me though and is SO loved by his parents. I always encourage clients to bring in personal things, so this pair brought in a canvas of themselves and their dog they’d had done earlier. Love it! I know you can barely see it, but that dog in just as happy as can be. It cracked me up!

This sweet baby girl was such a smiler! Which is sorta funny considering it took me nearly an entire year to get a smile from her big sister! We had a great time hanging out and letting her be the sleepy thing she was. Fingers crossed for mama that she sleeps tonight!!!

This guy is baby #4 for this family. This guy was 16 days old at the time of this session, so he took a bit longer to get to sleep, but once he was out, he was OUT. Mom cam in frazzled but left super relaxed that we got everything she wanted. The dog, the monkey and the loved-to-death blankie are her other kids’.

Amongst other various things. But newborn babies, being loved and adored, and kissed and held by their parents….THAT makes me smile. I love being able to SEE love on the faces of parents. There is nothing like it. There is no question that this little guy is loved. He is loved fully and completely by his parents. The way they hold him ever so gently. They way they work together to get him dressed and soothe him. They way they just stare at him. Yes, friends, this baby, he is LOVED!

Congratulations go out to the Reese family! This very big fellow was born 1:45am weighing in at 10lbs 6 oz.. but here’s the kicker.. he was born on Jan 1, making him the very first baby born in Athens Clarke County for 2012! He was the perfect baby for me at the studio. He woke up once in 45 minutes to look around and be fed, but that was it. Even big sister (whose name is Rhielle, how pretty is that?!?) was super sweet and did everything we asked. Thank goodness the session was fast too, or I think my arms would have fallen off holding this guy up. His daddy says “He’s meaty.”

You can read the article here: http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2012-01-01/first-baby-year-comes-little-early

I love that this year’s first session is a newborn! She was born about a month early right before Christmas, so she had quite the NICU stay before she was able to come in. Older brother just loves her to bits. LOVES her. She was tough to get to sleep because she just wanted to not miss a thing, but we finally got the best of her tired sleepy self. Daddy’s a firefighter right up the road at the Five Points fire station too!

Welcome home, baby boy! I feel like it was just yesterday when I was at this family’s home welcoming their first for her newborn pictures. This fellow had a good two pounds on his sister, but he has the same eyes and the same dislike of being asleep. Bet you can’t add ‘Helping shave newborn’s head for Mohawk’ to your resume’ though… I can now. Baby boy had to have part of his head clippered at the hospital for an IV in the NICU. I told them they should go ahead and hit both sides and give him a real Mohawk. Dad was like “Yeah, it’s going to grow back in all funky if we don’t..” and mom was like “I’m game as long as it’s not a high-and-tight.” Sooo, yeah. I helped give a baby a Mohawk yesterday.. I’ve heard that his grandmother was not a fan of it. We did a few of him pre-clipper though, just for her.