I cannot tell a lie.  At 24 days old, baby S. did not want to sleep for me.  He resisted all shushing, soothing, white noise, swaddling, heat, food, even my almost-patented “bounce, sway and pat” routine.  Instead he wanted to keep those gorgeous blue eyes open to see what was going on.  But can you really blame him?  Almost four weeks old and his first photo shoot!  I guess I’d want to be awake too.  So we grabbed some shots in the few fleeting minutes he did sleep and the rest, well, we just rolled with it and got some gorgeous awake shots instead of bendy sleepy ones.  🙂 Sometimes it makes a nice change.

But I will freely admit.  I was defeated by a 3.5 week old.