Sweet 9-weeker {Mercer County Baby Photographer}

At 9 weeks old, I was invited into this family’s beautiful home to capture sweet little E before she was completely out of the infant stage. The love of new parents for their baby is just so incredibly precious to capture, but it was even more so that day as I watched them fawn over her. Dad is so in love with his sweet baby girl and I just loved watching him snuggle and kiss her.  The look on Mom’s face as she cuddled with E was just so heavenly. It was a mix of love, adoration, and disbelief that her baby girl was finally here. These moments are what make me really appreciate and love my job!

Beautiful family of six {Mercer County Family Photographer}

I haven’t had that many families with older children, namely teenagers, but if all the families could be like this family from Thanksgiving weekend, I would want to book them all! I had so much fun with these four gorgeous girls and their wonderful parents. The minute they showed up at the park in their beautifully coordinated outfits and stunning smiles, I knew this was going to be a great session. The whole family is so easy going and easy to work with. While I was shooting, I could just feel all the love in this family and it was such a joy to edit their images and see all their emotional connections again.

During the shoot, I really admired these girls for having each other and they seemed to get along so well and love being together.

Although the priority was to get family and sibling shots, I wanted to be sure to capture the connection between each of the girls and Mom and Dad. I wanted to be sure the girls each had their moment with Mom and Dad.

A few more sisterly shots…with these beautiful girls, it was too hard to stop shooting!

Can’t you just feel all the love in this family??

Polish Twins {South Jersey Newborn Photographer}

You know the saying…babies that are born within a year of each other are called Irish twins. Well, this sweet baby girl was born 1 year and 5 days after her older sister. I would say they are Irish twins, but Dad is Polish, so I think it is more appropriate to call them Polish twins.;-) You may remember her older sister’s newborn session from last year. She had the most hair I’d seen on a newborn. She might as well have been the Rapunzel of babies because now at a year old, her hair is down her back! But like so many 1-year-olds, she had absolutely no desire to take pictures. She was more interested in going up and down the stairs during the session. We decided to focus on baby girl C and see if she would do some poses for us.

C was born at 31 weeks and spent a month in NICU. By the time we got her in the studio, she was already 2.5 months old. This still put her right around the time she would have been born. Typically, 2.5 months is an age that is really in between. No longer a newborn, but yet not doing much developmentally to do a 3-4 month session. So I really wasn’t sure what she would let us do!

Although she fought the sleep at first, she finally caved in and she was so easy to curl up! The only thing holding her back were all the adorable rolls she has! I’m not used to curling up a baby into a newborn shot, with feet tucked, and seeing all the wonderful chub! I think she gained her weight back pretty fast, don’t you think??

A special visit to CT {NJ Newborn Photographer}

A few weeks ago, my friends came down for a visit and we headed over to Princeton to shoot their last family pictures before their sweet baby arrived. At 10 days new, I headed up to CT to meet sweet baby B. Fortunately, I headed up on an early Sunday morning because although I had plans to avoid the George Washington Bridge, I was thinking about different shots and missed my route. Thankfully, there was no traffic on the bridge (a rarity!) and I made record time up there, despite the rain. And what a treat after the drive to hold this sweet baby boy! I wish I could have stayed longer! I miss you all!

17 days new {South Jersey Newborn Photographer}

It’s amazing how the week I am scheduled to come back from sabbatical and had three newborn and baby sessions, the dreaded summer cold hit. Really, it couldn’t have come all the other weeks that I was just working on personal projects? Thankfully, it didn’t last long and I was able to schedule everyone within a reasonable amount of time. So even though we typically schedule newborns before 2 weeks, sometimes unforeseen circumstances happen and we just roll with it.

The one thing you often hear from people who are not familiar with this style of newborn portraiture is “don’t you have any pictures of him with his eyes open?” Well, he didn’t disappoint. He had those beautiful big blue eyes open nice and wide for the first half hour. But I think the warmth and the rhythmic white noise was just too hard to fight and he fell fast asleep. He was a champ and did some great poses.

With first time parents, I just love to capture the complete love and adoration they have for their sweet baby. It is so heartwarming to see how enamored they are. Of course, all parents, whether first-time or many-times over, completely love their children. But when it’s the first, they have no one else to divide their attention and their entire focus is on this new little baby that has just entered their lives and turned it all around.

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