“It is not a slight thing when those so fresh from God love us.”

~Charles Dickens

This little pumpkin hat has great meaning to me.   When my son Jackson was born, he was very sick and spent awhile in the NICU on a ventilator.  It was the most difficult thing in the world to leave our baby at the hospital, but the nurses and volunteers that we encountered there were our lights in the darkness.   A group of ladies knit a bunch of these pumpkin hats for all the babies in the NICU.  I still remember the day we walked in to go see him and had to have a little laugh to myself.  We had walked into a pumpkin patch.  The nurses had put the little hats on all the babies for Halloween.  It was a wonderful sight.  It was a bright spot, it made me feel normal.  So, I tucked it away in his baby book and thought to bring it out for this October newborn session.  It fit this sweet, sweet little girl so perfectly.  It brings back wonderful memories and makes me happy to see this special hat on other babies.    Don’t  you just love how she has found her little thumb already?  I loved photographing this little one and it was great to see her mom again–I got to photograph her and her “BUMP” awhile back…oh, and for those of you that were wondering–it’s a girl!!!!

Dad is a huge Boston Redsox fan–her middle name is Fenway, how cool is that?!–so we had to include a sneak peek for him, too. Enjoy your sneak peeks, and I can’t wait to see how much she has grown when I see you for the mini sessions!!

The hot pink bloom is from Dolce Vita Mia, and I loooove it!  She does fan-tabulous work, and if you want to see more of her work, head over to her website, where this little cutie pie can be seen!

“In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.”

~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

She said goodnight to her sister, went upstairs and thought that it would be smooth sailing since her due date was over a week away and her husband would be returning from out of town the next day.   Apparently this little one had different plans.  As she lay down for the night, she felt her water break and the journey began.  Her husband drove in the middle of the night from California, thankfully making it in more than enough time to welcome his sweet little princess into this world.  You see, she waited.

It was such a pleasure to photograph this beautiful couple as they were anticipating the arrival of their little girl, and again a pleasure to photograph and meet their sweetie.  Thanks so much!