I ended my second whirlwind weekend in Rhode Island with the beautiful L. and her mom and dad in Crescent Park in the Riverside section.  It was a gorgeous sunny day and the backdrop of the Naragansett Bay / Providence river was stunning!!   L. was so great for the session, smiling and clapping and dancing and just SO happy! (I was fortunate to have three kids roughly the same age this weekend and I do think it is my favorite, next to newborns of course.)   I know I usually show color and black and white but I just looooved the colors that they wore and they popped so beautifully in the surroundings so you get all color this time 🙂   Mom and Dad it was great seeing you guys again and meeting L., hope the photos capture your little almost-one-year-old the way you wanted them to!

Isn’t mom gorgeous????

I started my Sunday with a trip to the Japanese Gardens at Roger Williams Park.  It is a great place that I first went to with little miss A. a few weeks ago so I was glad to go back!  I met D. and her mom and dad for some shots and off we went to explore.  We went over a lot of bridges, climbed rocks, and sang a lot of songs. D. was great and such a treat to work with – not to mention she is just absolutely adorable! Check out the photo on the bench, she looks like a porcelain doll!! Mom, Dad and D, I hope you enjoy these last few weeks as a family of three. 🙂   Four is a blast once you get used to it!

Don’t tell Matt, but I am in love with another man.  He has blond hair and beautiful blue eyes, has a great sense of style and drools occasionally. Meet the object of my crush – little A. We met on Saturday afternoon at Colt State Park down in Bristol and had such a great time taking photos! He was a total sweetheart clapping his hands, crawling on tables, grabbing sticks, such fun!!  We played with flowers, climbed on rocks and trees and I even got stabbed by a pricker bush trying to get a shot.  (Hey, it’s a dangerous job but someone’s gotta do it!)   Overall (okay, minus the bloody knee) it was a really cool way to end my Saturday sessions 🙂

I went back up to Rhode Island this weekend for a few more advance sessions and my first was with the brothers C. and N. In what works out to be a really funny coincidence, these two are almost to the day, the same age apart that Nolan and Layne are 🙂 Although I was mainly there for pictures of N., I had a great time doing trains with C. AND capturing some adorable photos of the new little N.  It is so nice to see siblings, especially when the older one loves the little one as much as C. obviously does 🙂

It’s happening too quickly.  Layne is becoming a baby and not a newborn or an infant.  She’s growing too quickly.  The chub is appearing, the drooling is starting, the hands are reaching out, the head is being held high and steady.  Sigh.  Three and a half months have just flown past…  Of course the good part is that the pictures get better and better…