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8 Months

How does the time keep passing by so quickly? Wasn’t my son just born a couple months ago? No, it’s been 8 months! 8 months since I held my little boy for the first time. 8 months since we changed from a couple to a family. 8 months without getting a full night’s sleep. Haha! That last one is definitely true, but it’s been worth it.

Our little Goose is turning from a baby into a little boy, and he is just getting cuter and cuter every day. These days we are working on his crawling…..or lack thereof. He can spin on his belly, but has yet to figure out how to get up on all fours. Which is a wonder, because he has no problem getting his knees under him with his tushy in the air in the middle of the night. In fact, that is his favorite sleeping position!

Another new thing we’ve been working on the past few days is having him stand by himself without us holding onto him. He’s always had pretty strong legs, and could support his own weight since he was about 3.5 months old, but he didn’t understand that he had to hold onto something to keep from falling over. Well, this week he’s finally figured that out, and now he loves standing!

Grayson is definitely an animal lover, and he lights up anytime Kaylee (our Saint Bernard) or one of our three cats comes in view.

These days, I’m pretty sure that Daddy is his favorite person. Yah, I know he loves me, and I’m normally the only one who can calm him down if he’s having a meltdown, but you should see the way he looks at his Daddy. He squeals in delight whenever he sees him and grins from ear to ear. There’s just a special bond between father and son. It’s so wonderful to watch them together.

These baseball pictures are from a couple weeks ago, but they are too cute not to share!

This one is the current wallpaper on my phone.

Our little slugger! I can’t wait to take him to his first T-ball game!

Baby Girl “A” | Hendersonville, TN

When I was about 20 weeks pregnant with Grayson, I joined a facebook group of ladies all over the U.S. and Canada who were all pregnant and due the same month as me — May 2012. In the past year, the 200+ members of this group have supported each other through births (premature, on time, and late), one heartbreaking death, midnight feedings, and milestones. It has been so amazing to be a part of this wonderful group of women, and Grayson has over 200 virtual friends to grow up with.

I’ve had the pleasure of meeting five of these ladies and their kiddos in real life, and my most recent meet up was this past weekend, when I had the pleasure of photographing my fellow Tennessean’s daughter. (In case you were wondering, there are 3 of us located in Tennessee).

Those eyes! I die!

“A” has already learned to clap, and she enthusiastically demonstrated her new talent.

We have several talented moms in our group, and one such mom designs and makes wedding dresses. A’s mom, Autumn, commissioned our fellow May Mom to make this beautiful flower headband out of her wedding dress. The flower is detachable, so it can have multiple uses.

They brought along three dresses that A’s grandmother wore when she was a baby. This is dress #1. I love this little pucker that she’s giving me.

Here’s dress #2. Cute and yellow. Looks like it’s straight out of the 1950s….which is probably is!

And this pretty blue dress is #3. I love her beautiful red hair with this dress.

At 8.5 months old, she has already started crawling (something we’re trying to teach Grayson to do)!

And has seven teeth!!!

Mama’s necklace was a nice distraction when she started getting bored.

You can really see just how gorgeous her eyes are in this photo.

Here are a few more from our session.

And here’s a little one of the three of us. Unfortunately my little man couldn’t be in the photo because he was sick (for the first time in his life). I’m happy to report that he is doing much better now! I hope to meet these beautiful ladies (and Daddy) again!

“W” Family Photos | Hendersonville, TN

I took these pictures last year, but realized that I never shared them with you! Now that I’m doing photography professionally, I thought it would probably be a good idea to display some more of my work!