...The thing about babies...

When I was contacted by this new family to capture their month old newborn I was thrilled...this was my first session of Spring and I had been itching to take some beautiful pictures! Mama went back and fourth between capturing her cute baby J now or wait for a few months when he wasn't so fussy and on a more predictable schedule. When she asked me for my opinion on what she should do I told her...

With my oldest, who is now almost 4, I didn't hire a professional to come in and take pictures of him. Sure I had the snapshots I could take, even with my digital camera (I was just learning back then), but I didn't have any pictures artistically expressing life, love and motherhood. None of our family together experiencing this new life for the first time. I wanted nothing fancy, no magazine covers, no matching outfits on a perfect background just "us", being us, loving us...capturing a time in our lives that opens and closes just as quickly.

Mama, I am SO glad that you decided to go ahead and endure the fussy month old stage to capture your little J. Before you know it he will be crawling, talking, dressing himself, throwing food on the floor, requesting cartoons and asking you to give him some privacy! Most likely a day in random will come that you will come across the album of pictures from this session and when you open the cover you will be so incredibly grateful that you had the foresight to get yourself this gift!

In the First year of your child's life they grow and change so much! To anyone reading this I highly recommend that you give YOURSELF the gift of professional photos of your babies, You'll truly treasure them in about 5 years...and you'll be so happy you "splurged"!

NOW! Since I know that Grandma is visiting little J from England I am going to post LOTS of pictures so that she can see as many as possible before she leaves in a week!

I would like to introduce Little Baby J and his sweet family!

"The strangest thing about having babies is...before you know it you have adults" -Anna Quindlen

Love these ones of Dad!

I hope your family has a wonderful time with new baby J and I hope each moment is as fun, exciting and beautiful as you imaged it would be! Thank you for inviting me into your home to capture your wonderfully changing lives.

Rachael