Babies

There’s a Robert Burn’s poem that I sang in my high school chorus days.

O my Love’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Love’s like the melody,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

As soon as I saw Rose, I couldn’t help but remember this song.  The fourth child, only girl, of a family who had experienced so much miscarriage, Rose is a gift.

Fair haired and loved deeply until all the seas go dry.

Also, I LOVE this romper from Lydia’s Hope Chest.  It’s one of my favorite pieces of the studio wardrobe for baby!

Meet Kyson Taylor.

This little guy was supposed to have taken a long nap on his mama’s drive to the studio, but instead he screamed all the way.  Poor mama Bree was so frazzled.

Kyson checked me out pretty cautiously at first.  He wanted to make sure that I was safe.  Most babies in the 6-8 month range take a few minutes to scope me out.

Bree had commissioned me to create a session that would help her remember their season of cloth diapering and breastfeeding.

Bree never thought she’d cloth diaper. But over the course a few months she started to out of necessity and found that she loved his little fluffy bum.  She didn’t want to forget that cuteness or the work she put into keeping him dry and clean.

But what she really wanted to remember was the feeling of Kyson nursing.  Bree is a huge breastfeeding advocate.  Her direct social circle has sometimes had opposition to her beliefs, but Bree persisted and has nursed this chunky and healthy boy from day one.

I feel like we created such a wistful set of images for her to remember this season through.

After the long car ride and the nursing, sweet Kyson passed out.  These are my favorite images from this session.

I especially love this image of Kyson sleeping on Bree in my Oval Photoblock.  It’s such a timeless emotional image.

We also previewed a collage of their session images for Kyson’s room.

Connie and I have been full circle together.  I was there for sweet Allie’s first breaths and her newborn session.  We finished the year out by doing a sweet one year cake smash session for Allie.

The thing about one year olds is that they are right in the middle of the separation anxiety/stranger danger stage.  Allie was not having it with me at all for the first portion of the session.

Which was fine by me since I had big sister Abby to play with for just a bit.  Abby absolutely adores me.  Every time we run into each other at church or out and about, I get all kinds of hugs and delighted stories.  Abby always makes my day when that happens.

Allie still wanted to the comfort of mama for a few more minutes so I shot was was probably my favorite set of images from this session of mama and her girls.

Then we had daddy jump in for a few.

And we finally got a happy image of sweet Allie (thank you pretzel)!

By that time Allie was pretty hungry… and there’s nothing more enticing to a little one than a big plate of a brand new food.  Allie soon forgot all about me and dove right into her cake.

I love capturing the details of each little one’s foray into cake tasting.  Her dirty tutu and her sweet little toes are memories I would want for myself.

Finally we finished the cake smash a with a bath as I always do.  And clearly Allie was not happy about having to leave that yummy cake to mommy, sister, daddy, and I to finish off.

Looking to book a cake smash for your little one? Contact me today and we’ll create some beautiful images for you!