Beautiful | Rhode Island Newborn Photography

I will admit it.  When I found out that J. had tattoos at their maternity session, I began stalking them.  I have dreamed of a tattooed dad with newborn shot for months now.  MONTHS and months.  Most dads are not even willing to take their shirts off for photos but some do.  But that gorgeously built tattooed arm was what I was seeking.  And I found it.  And thankfully A&J agreed to it 🙂  And not only that, but it turned out that they had an awesome house with neat little details (including a dining room that was just awesome, country but crate and barrel country style)  and on top of it all, a beautifully perfect baby girl.

I know they have been waiting and I have a bunch of editing to do before vacation so here is the gorgeous miss M!! And yes, that last shot is one of my all time favorites.  Ever.  It was SO worth the stalking 😉

12 Days | Rhode Island Newborn Photography

Some people really awe me.  Someone who, for example, runs every day up until the day they deliver and then goes through a placental abruption during labor and an emergency c-section.  You know, that kind of a person.  Yeah, pretty amazing to me!!!  Meet 12 day old baby A. – the end result of both of those things.  Though the birth wasn’t what anyone puts on their birth plan, look at what an adorable baby came out of it!  So so sweet and cuddly.  Mom and dad contacted me last week for some newborn shots of their little girl and we got together on Tuesday for our session.  Twelve days old and just perfect.  (Just beware, however, if you would like to fix your son up with her, they have told me she’s not dating ’til she’s 30 😉 ) And I have to say that obviously mom is awesome, but dad, he’s pretty darned good for a first time daddy – did some fabulous rocking to get her to sleep for us.  Either she already has him wrapped around her little finger, or he is just so smitten that he doesn’t mind rocking and staring at his new baby girl.  Might just perhaps be a mixture of both.

I have said it before, but I just love seeing new life.  I love my job.  Congratulations P. family, enjoy her!!

Chicago Part 3 | Rhode Island Newborn Photography

You hear me talk on here often of “this forum / message board” that I am on.  About three and a half years ago, a bunch of us were on the Nest.  The Nest.com is a spin-off of the Knot which is a wedding planning website.  The Nest is where you are sent after you get married.  There were a bunch of us on there and we started discussing photography, photographers, etc.  There were enough of us on there that were interested in it, that we spun off and made our own board.  And since that point 3.5 years ago, I have become part of this wonderful community of gals.  We have seen lots of people come and go. Our board has had as many as 200 members and as few as 50.  The regulars that have stayed all three and a half years probably number around 40.  As you can imagine, we have all become pretty tight on there.  I have met over 50 of the girls in real life.  I have gone to get togethers with those in my area, I have traveled to Las Vegas for a girls weekend.  I have gone to the Outer Banks for a girls weekend / workshop.  And I have traveled to photograph some of them.  This last category is what Morgan falls into.

Morgan has been on the board for a while, over a year.  We became friends as we all do and then she told a few months ago when she was about six months pregnant that she wanted me to come out to Chicago to do her newborn session.  Now timing a newborn session is tricky enough because you never know when a baby is going to arrive.  But timing a newborn session that is several states away?  Even more difficult.  We set the date for two weeks after her due date.  That way we figured even if she went late, the baby would be no more than a week old.  This was a great plan.  Morgan even “discussed it” with the baby, telling her how important it was to stay in until her due date.  That was until she decided (ahem!) to take a four mile walk around Lake Michigan with her husband.  Needless to say, later that night, she was in labor.  THREE WEEKS EARLY.  FIVE WEEKS BEFORE I WOULD GET THERE. I was a little nervous.  Five weekers are typically not easy to photograph.  At all.  They don’t sleep much, they don’t sleep as deeply, they don’t bend, etc.  In fact, they tend to cry and scream and be awake (and cross eyed) at lot.  But fortunately, Quinn is the daughter of a photographer.  Though it took a little bit to settle her, settle she did.  And very well.  And very deeply.  It was perfect.  No, she didn’t curl as much and no my hats didn’t fit her head and yes she was much bigger than most babies but she was still utterly precious and perfect.  We did some more typical newborn shots and then several family shots.  I have some of my favorite family newborn shots from this session – there is just something about that emotion that the first brings.  🙂  (The photography Gods must have been smiling on me that morning – I even had no traffic into the city AND got to see Wrigley!)

So Morgan and Steve, enjoy her.  She will be big before you know it.  🙂

Four Days New | Rhode Island Newborn Photography

I was contacted several months ago by M. to do some newborn shots when her baby daughter arrived in July. Although she was eagerly anticipated, baby A. made her mom and dad wait until a few days after her due date to meet her.  (Which is kind of ironic because her friend in Chicago who I am flying out to do newborn pictures for went into labor three weeks EARLY!)  So Sunday morning I got to head over the house for a newborn session with the beautiful little miss A.  She may have been a few days overdue, however, she worth the wait because she was just perfect.  She was asleep when I was there and although I had to settle her for about 15 minutes before she fell into a deep sleep, she only woke up at the very end when I was finishing up some family shots!  Gotta love a baby who cooperates 😉  (For some reason the phrase Easy, Breezy, Beautful CoverGirl keeps entering my mind at this late hour)

Congratulations again, M. family.  Enjoy her, she’s absolutely precious!!

Rocking Chairs | Rhode Island Newborn Photography

I mentioned a few posts ago how awesome it is to have friends.  And how lucky we are when we have good, TRUE friends.  We all have those people that we say hi to and are friendly with.  But then we have those people who know us inside and out.  People we could not talk to for months and then we’d pick up a phone or drop an email having never missed a beat.  The friends who have been with us since before we became the current us (and still like us anyways).  The true friends.  Someone that I know calls them “rocking chair friends” – the ones we’ll sit with on our porches when we’re 85 and drinking lemonade on a hot day.  That person.  That friend.

I have been lucky enough to have three of these friends in my life.  Some people have more, what can I say, I’m particular 😉  One of them is Nicole.  I met Nicole while teaching Spanish my first year at Page High down in North Carolina.  I was a floater which meant I didn’t have a classroom  – every period I was in a new room with my cart.  One of the rooms I was assigned to was Nicole’s.  (No bother that she kicked me out a few weeks in because she couldn’t run student council while I was in there – we got past that.)  We hit it off pretty much immediately.  This was when we were dating our husbands, but not yet engaged.  So we hung out, we went out, we socialized together, we bbq’d together, she was my best friend in NC and pretty much my rock when Matt was super busy and occupied with med school.   Our anniversaries are two days apart (one year apart).  Nicole was in my wedding and I helped in hers (she had much older rocking chair friends ;))  She got pregnant with her first child (a boy) and six months later I was pregnant with mine (a boy).  Repeat for #2 as well but with girls.  Kind of scary since we didn’t plan it that way. Basically, we’ve been through a lot together and lots of years.  (And so have our husbands who have a nice little bro-mance when they hang out) And through everything, through moving to Philly for four years and then moving here to RI we have stayed friends.  It might be a little while between calls or emails, but it doesn’t matter.  And now we have watched our oldest children become friends as well (as much as four and five year olds can) which is a really nice treat.  Maybe all of our kids will end up rocking chair friends, too.

When I found out Nicole was pregnant with her third (and a note to readers and especially my mother, no, I am NOT following in her shoes this time.  No 3rd children anytime soon.) I started plotting how to come down and do her newborn photos.  We worked on a plan for a while and then just picked a date about two weeks after she was due.  Charlotte ended up coming a week early so I was a little nervous when I got down there just how much I would be able to do with a three week old.  I didn’t need to even be slightly concerned as it turned out.  At three weeks, she would wake up, cry a little, eat and then sleep for three or four hours.  Repeat.  Yup.  I did three different sessions with her and only one time did she wake up.  Out of all three.  It was amazing.  I would pay serious money for all of my babies to be like her.  And not only did she sleep, she was gorgeous to boot and just so perfect.   And I got to stay and snuggle all nine pounds of her as much as I wanted. How lucky am I???  🙂

I really didn’t want to come home this time.  But then I couldn’t have edited all of these pictures to share with you and, well, that would’ve just been plain awful.  So, Miss Charlotte.  (There’s a lot)



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