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.
There is something special about photographing couples that are really in love. You catch their meaningful glances and gazes. It really is such an honor to be a part of that experience. This family was no exception. They were casual and playful with one another and we had a great time walking around five points together. Don’t miss big brother’s karate moves in that last picture…he was a riot!
Oh, I rarely get to do holiday newborns, because there aren’t many born right around Christmas or New years or whatnot. This 10lb not-so-little fellow is 18 days old and he just would not sleep! We got him asleep for about 5 minutes in an hour and a half (with his super-patient 3 year-old big brother there), then he was awake again. 18 days is rough! I finally sent the family out the door to start the long drive back to Atlanta and said “If he falls asleep in the next 15 minutes, feel free to come back!” I figured it’d take about 45 minutes of swaying in the studio, so I was pretty glad wen they called from McDonald’s 15 minutes later to tell me he was out. They finished lunch and swung back by to get the other two sets. Sweet!