Saturday, August 20, 2011

maya's first photo session

i was trying to lay down & take a nap with maya... but as i laid there with my daughter, barely 50 hours old, i was overwhelmed with how beautiful the light was at that moment. so all the tiredness escaped me & i was no longer really drained mommy, but tired photographer! i'm so glad i skipped that nap, because i love these pictures!

instead of doing an entire upper body cast like i did for finn (what was i gonna do with two of those things??!) my friends jill & arielle did a belly cast. nothing bonds some women together like rubbing a cast all over your chest & belly!

i planned on putting the baby in it so we could all see how big the creature living inside of me was:
cute huh?
this is bryan's favorite.
& this is a great example of what she was doing almost 24/7 in my belly... KICKING!
& then i took a flower from the bouquet my brother & his wife sent us to use as a prop.
my sweet smiling baby girl.


& then another one to show how tiny she was... was because i feel like our girl is already so big! she's solidly filling out her 0-3 month clothes!

so, maya didn't have her first non-family member babysitter yesterday, daddy had a furlow day, so he got to do it! melissa was slightly disappointed :) it's been so nice having an extra day with him. if anyone is aware of a job for bryan -that would allow him to work from home, please send it his way. we're all much happier when we get more of him!

2 comments:

Jody said...

We all need to just jump in and open up that summer camp/B&B/camp for at-risk girls/etc...then we could all be home all of the time. And be poor, so very poor ;) Maybe throw an organic farm in there, too :)

Luann said...

Awww she is so darn cute! I love the belly cast idea.