i pulled up to the little parking lot next to the old hotel downtown tonight for my photoshoot of two little girls i had yet to meet. i waited two minutes before the blue car pulled in next to me…i turned to look, and sitting in the backseat were two beauties who literally took my breath away.
i grabbed my cellphone and made a quick call to brett.
him: “did you get there okay?”
me: “holy mother of pete, brett. these girls? oh. my. gosh. they’re beautiful. this is gunna be fun. just had to call and tell you that.”
kelsey and addie…who melted my heart like butter. oh, and their grandparents did this all as a secret surprise for their mommy & daddy. sweet, sweet grandma & grandpa!
this one had me at ‘hello.’ ten minutes into the shoot, her sweet little voice was calling me, “kelle! kelle!” and then she’d show me something fabulous.
no matter how old they are, i gotta get those footie pics.
this next picture makes me laugh…this little thing had so much character and her grandparents would get her to pose and “show her muscles”…and i could move her like play-doh…she just did whatever we told her to do!
…and i could easily post twenty more.
people ask me all time if i miss teaching.
everything i miss about it, i get back from taking pictures of kids…that fulfillment of childhood, that capturing their little attention, that magic that you can only get by being with these precious souls. i still get to experience it. (but i still miss reading hard-cover books aloud…the ones that smell like the library and have thick pages that crinkle when you lick them and turn the page. yeah, i still miss that.)
…enjoying the taking-babies’-pictures-is-a-spiritual-experience-for-me things. ~k
the kid pix…oh, they always get to me.