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When I scheduled a newborn session for Beth and Pete I didn’t realize that we had picked a special day. Here I thought we were going to be celebrating the birth of new baby Caroline but we had our appointment schedule on big sister Audrey’s birthday. Since she was only two SHE didn’t grasp the significance, but I sure did! Normally I just have the pressure of getting the cute squishy newborn pictures, but this time I had to make sure we got some great shots of Miss Audrey to capture her special day too!
Audrey was one of the best two year olds I’ve worked with in a long time. She was happy to pose for me inside, outside, upside down (all while singing Wiggles songs)!
Baby Caroline was actually the bigger challenge. She was only 16 days old but already she is having some long ‘alert’ periods where she likes to take in the whole world. She was perfectly content to sit and watch her Mom and I as we tried, in vain, to get her to sleep. Finally, 1.5 hours into our photo shoot we prevailed when we brought out my secret weapon. The hairdryer. It doesn’t matter that we had a space heater and heating pad going already. The hairdryer was the magic elixir that put that girlie to sleep. Of course here mom and I were ready to take a nap too because it was so toasty in my studio!
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