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!
These cuties were great for me. I expected a 4 year old boy to come in all grouchy and I’d have to really break out all my tricks to get anything good, but both of these sweeties did perfect.
about all sorts of things! This sweet girl is one of those minds. I love how inquisitive she is and how she doesn’t just ASK questions. She really and truly listens to the answers! This session I was able to get a ton of different expressions! Mom, Dad, you are SO IN TROUBLE!!!
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.