A Bundle of Perfect

When this new mom called me to come and photograph their newest addition, I was over the moon because I had such a good time with them taking their maternity photos. The sonogram one I have in my blog header is world famous now! Anyway, my hunch was right when I saw this sweet baby girl, totally adorable!

Thanks for letting me play with all of my hats and poses K family! Here are only a fraction of my favorites... I hope you love them as much as I do!

P.S. To all of my blog stalkers... if you like these kind of squishy newborn poses, they are best achieved before the baby turns 2 weeks old :)

One of my all-time fav family photos. I love it when mom said these were her two red-headed babies!

And I like to call this last photo, "Life is good."

I'll take one of these please.

This little bundle of pure sweetness was absolutely wonderful to photograph. He was about a week old here and that two week mark makes a difference. After two weeks, they usually don't let me move them around too much without putting up a good fight! He would just whimper a little (which melted my heart) but slept like an angel. Don't get me wrong, newborn photography is not as easy as it seems. Getting them to sleep doesn't necessarily make it easier, this took a good 2 hours to get! But there's only a very short time frame to be able to capture those curled up newborn poses before they grow up so fast... and boy do they grow up so fast...

I love waiting to catch their little facial expressions. I love how he scrunched his brows together here!

These hats are very popular right now in newborn photography and I was too excited when his Nona brought out this specially handmade hat and booties to match! I'll be ordering a few of these from the talented person who made them!
A lot of people have asked me lately how I get them to "smile." I don't of course... I just wait for facial movements and while it was probably a gas pain, it looks like he was having sweet dreams here!

Another early Christmas gift

I have had such a fun time this weekend with all of these great families! Today I photographed the B family who welcomed a beautiful little girl recently. I predict that she'll be sitting and crawling within no time. This tiny baby was so strong and full of determination! I love how amazing newborns are.

It was a little tough getting in newborn, individual and family shots all in one session but these happy and well-behaved kids made my job so much easier.

Is she not a little model already?!!

I am wondering if I can count this as a smirk?!! If not, it sure is a cute face!

She can already hold her head up at 2-1/2 weeks!So normally I much prefer to do large family shots outside because I love a natural backdrop and nothing beats natural sunlight; however, my last two family session have included newborns and it's super cold outside! But you know what, I really like them inside too after this weekend!

An early Christmas gift

Today I had the pleasure of photographing my brand new 5-day old 2nd cousin and his super cool family. This little guy was a dream to photograph and his brother was a total pro in front of the camera. I hope the rest of my holiday session go this well!

Love this holiday family portrait and I love how the baby is the ONLY one looking at the camera here! How often does THAT ever happen?!!

I used my macro lens to capture his perfect little details. I love this lens for newborn photos!

And finally, I was boring him so I left him be :)

A Brand New Smiling Baby!

This little guy was only 7 days old here. I have never, never seen a newborn smile as much as he did in such a short amount of time. Actually, I tried so hard to capture those shots of my own daughter (gassy smiles or not, I would've taken them!) but never could at this age. Everytime his mom spoke, he would smile. It was amazing as is he!

Welcome to the world little J... the world is already a much brighter place!

Precious

I love newborns. So tiny. So sweet and so precious. This little guy was no exception. His adoring mom and dad were so relaxed and they were up for anything I suggested which was a lot of fun!

Thanks so much guys! He's quite the charmer and I can't wait to come back when he gets bigger!

Welcome to the world little A!

Today I photographed the most adorable little 4-week old I've ever photographed....okay he's the only 4-week old I've ever photographed!!! But... he was so perfect, truely a miracle baby and it was such a pleasure meeting him, his mom and his Grandma.

This post is going to be very pic heavy because I don't see how I anyone could pick and choose between these. Funny how when I think that I can't possibly have any more favorite photographs, I now have about 10 more. Okay, okay... there's 11 here but it's allowed because I don't have another newborn session on the schedule until November!

Is this not the cutest thing ever caught on camera?

A very special blanket made for him by his proud big sister!





This special delivery photo was inspired by the extremely talented photographer Amber from Little Moon Photography.