Jill's Belly

Last week I traveled to Little Rock for a newborn session and a maternity session. This belly belongs to Jill. One of my best friends from college. She is expecting her first baby, a girl, Harlow (she thinks. name is still not set), in just 5 weeks! She looks gorgeous pregnant and I am so excited to meet and photograph Harlow soon. I will post more shots HERE soon but I am not through editing yet.

The Fit!

Inspired by a friends post ( who I must say is worth following. Her writing kicks ass) I too felt like I had something to share with all those new parents that blog about how wonderful life is with their new baby and how perfect their little one is. Well I have been there and I remember those days and miss them fondly.

So this particular fit thrown by my wonderful and beautiful 20 month old son was thrown last Friday. How it started you ask? I must have done something right? Well, we left the park. As simple as that. We left the park and he was not ready to leave. So, he kicked and screamed the entire way from the park to the car. Then he kicked the shit out of the back seat and his dvd player as I pinned him down with my forearm to buckle him into his car seat. Then frothing from the mouth he continued to kick the back of my seat and throw himself from side to side as he gagged himself with his screaming. Between screaming you could hear him muttering no, no, no.

So then we made it home and I let him out of the car and he ran into the middle of the street, luckily no cars were driving by. This kid was out of control. He laid in the middle of the street, kicking, and screaming no, no, no. So somehow I managed to get this demon child inside. Still not calm I grabbed our flip video camera. I had to record this... Jeremy would never believe that his perfect little boy could become such an awful being.

To end the story where the video left off. Cohen calmed down about 15 minuteslater and took a nap. He woke up a perfectly happy, like the stranger within him had left with no trace of ever being there. I later showed him the video and I will quote him... " I bad!"... "No, no, no!"

So note to all you happy mom's who are in heaven with their new little helpless baby. Overwhelmed with love and joy. This what they turn into so get yourself ready!

Eli {6 months}

The last time I photographed this little guy he was going on 2 months. Well, look at him now... all grown up and almost 6 months. To check out more of Eli and his big brother and sister click HERE.

As Promised

Above: Cohen kissing Jill's belly

As promised... new pictures of Cohen. He is 20 months now. All of these shots were taken yesterday including the one of Cohen kissing Jill's belly. Jill is about 6 weeks away from having her little girl (name to be decided on... Willow or Harlow) and Cohen just loved that "ball" in her belly. It was really cute and he has been saying baby jill all day today so it had an impact on him of some kind. Yesterday Cohen ran around outside on the Fiser's property with about 5 dogs. He was dirty and had scrapes on his palms when all was said and done. He is a total boy. Loved being outside, loved throwing rocks and looking for sticks. Oh, yeah I forgot to tell you all... its been in the 60's! Feels like early Spring. I love it!

Babies, bellies, and taxes!

I have been lax with my blogging. I would like to have an excuse but I really do not have one except for that it is TAX season and I just have not been taking photos of Cohen or our goings on lately. I am busy spending my free time preparing Jeremy's taxes and let me tell you it is awful. Every year I say I won't do it but I am too cheap to pay someone to do it. $450 on a cpa is a rip off :) Sorry CPA friends. Even when we use a CPA I have to do a ton of work on the front end and we all know how unorganized Jeremy is. Anyway I promise to post a few new shots of Cohen this week.

We traveled down to Little Rock Monday night and stayed with Jill. I took her maternity portraits while Cohen played on the farm with all the dogs. Its like a dog shelter on the Fiser Farm. He loved it. I also managed to squeeze in a client session. Baby Dax. Isn't he the sweetest thing? Click HERE and HERE to see more of this little guy. For those of you who do not know this newborn sessions are my thing. I would give anything to have newborns be my main focus. Oh, someday! I will also try to post some of Jill's maternity session but I need her permission first. Some of them are topless but tasteful of course! So I am crossing my fingers she says yes. That is all for now.

Matthew McConaughey???

Looks like I might have a little Matthew McConaughey on my hands. (only minus the pot smoking)
Watch out ladies!

Did I forget to mention that Cohen turned 20 months yesterday??? He is growing up fast!

Happy Birthday Isabel!

I am a day late on this post but I did not forget to call and wish this cute little girl a happy first birthday. Happy birthday Isabel!

Football in the Snow!

Cohen was able to experience his first real snow. It did snow last year and he hated it but this year was an entirely different story. He kept signing for more when we were headed in. He and Koda ran and Cohen and Jeremy played some football. One of Cohen's very favorites these days.

We have been in a deep freeze since Saturday. We are talking the teens which is not normal for this part of the south. We are expected to be around 5 degrees on Friday following some more snow on Thursday. I welcome the heat but do enjoy this bit of winter wonder!

Christmas Card

front of card

Back of card

I was sick over Christmas and on Christmas so I was bad about blogging. I am still catching up on photos from the holiday and will get back to blogging more soon. I promise.

I was so disappointed that I did not post our holiday card that I created from scratch. I loved it so much that I am posting it now. So late happy holidays to everyone from me to you!