Cake Smash

I know I'm a little behind posting this but customer's photos come first. My little man turned one back in June, so to celebrate I did a Cake Smash session.

The aftermath

And just for fun

Happy Birthday Collin!

My baby turned one recently! We had a small family party before his birthday and he got to eat cake for the first time.

Big brother blew out the candle for him.
He wasn't very interested at first.

But then he dug in

Hopefully, I'll be able to do cake smash pictures this week and share those with you soon.

My babies are getting too big!

Here's a few of my favorite recent snapshots of what keeps me so busy!

About a month ago my youngest started walking. He's pretty much running everywhere now and he climbs on top of the coffee table, too.
Look at those eyes, who could resist!My oldest wanted a turn at wiffle ball with his daddy and uncle and managed to actually hit it a couple times. The white spot on daddy's leg is the ball, heading away. And here they are swimming. I'm just so proud of them!

One of many catch-up posts

My grandpa turned 80 in May and my family threw a big party for him about a week ago. Due to higher fuel prices and flooding where a lot of them live, it was much smaller than originally expected but it was nice to see those that were able to make it.

This is my grandpa. I love this look. It's a mixture of pride and love as he watches the grandkids play. There's a slight smile at the corners of his mouth and his hair is unruly.

I've always wanted to try this effect on a photo. It's almost vintage looking and it really emphasizes the toll that years of hardship and physical labor have taken. He recently has had a lot of health problems that no longer allow him to work and that has been very hard on him.

And I had to throw in a photo of Collin saying his favorite word, "Ohhh". It reminds me of those martians on Toy Story. Also, look how orange he is! Big reason to lay off orange foods before portraits. And this was after a couple days of no orange foods, he was way oranger before (think oompa loompa)!

Been awhile

I haven't posted in almost a month! I promise to catch you all up!

Yesterday I found out that I won an incredible prize! I will be getting a Tracy Joy® SUSIE camera strap cover that was given away by MCP Actions. Tracy Joy makes custom camera bags in some fabulous prints and someday I hope to have one for myself! And Jodie at MCP Actions has some incredible actions for photographers! My thanks to both!

On another note, my baby will be one next month! Collin is getting so big and has started walking! I am so excited but I am also sad at how fast he has grown up. I plan to do some fun one year pictures and I'll share them with you soon!

Look, a new tongue!

Collin had a frenulumectomomy about two weeks ago due to his tongue tie (the tissue that attaches to the bottom side of your tongue extended all the way to the tip of his tongue and made swallowing food difficult and would have caused speech problems). This is a very basic procedure where they put clamps on the tissue to cut off blood supply, after numbing the area, and then clip it. Daddy held him while I occupied Ethan and Collin didn't even cry! The problem was noticed shortly after birth but most pediatricians have a wait and see policy unless there is a serious problem nursing and there wasn't. But as time went on, I realized it was causing some problems and he had a hard time eating solids. I had to convince the pediatrician we needed a referral to an ENT (the ENT was very proactive believing it would definitely cause speech problems), but I was very nervous about it even though I knew it was the right decision. There were no after-care issues and breastfeeding was already easier. About a week later, Collin realized that his tongue was different and did something amazing: he stuck his tongue out for the first time! For the next week I couldn't get him to keep his tongue in his mouth! We joked about him being our little Michael Jordan but I worried he would bite his tongue. He's finally able to eat thick foods but he still doesn't like chunky foods.