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.

This family.. they are one of my favorites. I just could smooch them all day. The oldest girl used to call me ‘Hevver’ until the kids at school teased her about it and her teachers started correcting her TH’s a bunch. Now she calls me ‘Heather’, but I went over and got called ‘Hevver’ again by middle brother. Oh, it just made me melt! I’m going to seriously cry about it when the youngest brother quite calling me Hevver.

There’s nothing quite like a photo session right in your own front yard.  We spent a beautiful fall afternoon at this family’s home.  This sweet girl is my own daughter’s classmate and she was delighted to show me all around her home.   Aren’t those fall colors in their yard amazing?!

This guy has some of the biggest blue eyes ever! It’s so true that all blue-eyed babies look amazing in blue.  And there is nothing like a little one year old swagger…toddling around and falling down and getting right back up to try it all over again.  His daddy comes home in just 9 days from serving our country overseas almost his whole first year of life…hopefully these photos will hold him over until he’s back home!

This is why I love doing home newborn sessions! The light is sure more of a challenge, but the results are so personal. This family lives in Atlanta, but I loved setting up in their house. This baby boy is a hefty 10lbs!

This sweetie is just so tiny that you think she should be just crawling when you look at her, but then she gets up and toddles off. She’s quite a swift walker now! Mom and Dad are moving from the house she’s grown up in and wanted some photos to document the house a little too, so i did get to indulge my love for babies on beds. Check out her sitting up session and her newborn photos!

I love it when repeat clients add to their families. Older brother here is someone we’ve had the privilege of watching grow since he was 8 months old! Mister new was born at over 9lbs and 21 inches long! I swear, It’s been a while since I’ve held a newborn that big; my arms are all sore now. This session was done at home. I LOVE home newborns because I get to really include things that we don’t have at the studio. All of you long time blog stalkers know my affair with babies in beds, so I was excited to get the chance again.