i know. two blog posts in one day.
but i couldn’t help myself after going through my photos from tonight’s shoot with this incredibly darling family. (plus, there’s a baby bonus at the end!)

i wish for these kind of photos with every shoot.

i met adrienne a month ago at a birthday party and was smitten with her beauty.
so, when she called two weeks later to set up some photos, i was thrilled.
not to mention, her girls are heaven…throw in her husband and you get this incredibly photogenic family.

and i was so glad we agreed on candid as oppossed to posey-posey.

i. love. these. pictures.
and this family.

this next one…well i’m a sucker for those hey-kids-go-play-while-we-make-out shots. alright, i made them do it. but i think they liked it.

and these sisters? dreamy little angels.

and maybe it’s the dawn of mother’s day, but these next ones just make me teary.
a mama’s love.
adrienne, you are so beautiful!

how in the world i get so blessed to meet such wonderful, photogenic families, i’ll never know.

oh, but wait. i said there was a baby bonus.

…and i just got back from the hospital where i held this little love for as long as i could. he is beautiful and i know his mama, my friend, has been dreamin’ of him for about as long as i’ve known her.

congratulations, jason & stephanie.

a perfectly beautiful day.

my camera needs an ambien.

~k

…for a date with my girl.

because life’s been busy and, while that is in this case very good, i crave time with my girl when i am not haunted by the monstrous tasks that lie in front of me and i can instead just smoosh her all i want. and skip. and eat ice cream. and get sticky. and go to the park. and get woodchips stuck in my sandals. and other fun-ish stuff like that.

and so, as all good wednesdays go, i pondered my day while sudsing my hair…and nursing my poor blisters from the uncomfortable ankle straps i wore last night. and it was then i declared today was a date day.

and so it was…

with our day starting a little something just like this:

and then all this in-between-ish stuff like….

breakfast ouside on fifth avenue.
where i sipped coffee and devoured the best greek omelete in the history of mankind, she pecked at a bowl of hearty oatmeal, and we both watched as a huddle of cute pipe-smoking older men talked about their grandkids and their golf swings.

we hurdled over climby things in the park and dangled our feet from big-girl swings.

we ambled down fifth, stopping at any passing pups, park benches and then straight into kilwin’s for a single dip with sprinkles.

we came home to play doctor…

and killed the heat with the hose…

and so it was…

with our day ending a little something just like this….

she slept on my chest, on the couch in the middle of a mess of a living room.

i accomplished absolutely positively nothing today.
and i wouldn’t have it any other way.

~k

p.s. fully aware the hair is a bit cleopatra. trying a new natural dye much more gentle on the hair, and let’s just say medium brown interprets equivacolly across brand names. 26 more washes and in the meantime, i’m gunna rock it out.

my camera and my girl. they need each other, they do.

she is my lense’s muse, and i don’t know what these two loves in my life would do without each other.

it’s just what we do. it is so natural and normal for me to hold that camera and take in her loveliness. and while i am finding a balance between obsessively shooting and not shooting enough, i can’t help but think i will someday be forever grateful for taking it in. from somber cheeks, blonde windswept tendrils and a cherubic profile that looks exactly like an eight-month ultrasound picture taped deep in the pages of her baby book…

to the little things not everyone sees that will someday be lost in sweet memories…
like the back of those fragile little shoulders and the way her tiny ponytail shows just enough of the nape of her neck to expose her precious faded birthmarks where grandma and grandpa kissed her in heaven before they sent her down to me.

and tastes of our weekend…

oh, the box. the box of endless entertainment. oh, how we love a box.

and da mamas…

there are so many things she loves that are just blatant little carbon copies of me. i love that she loves what i love. and i would be just perfectly fine if she didn’t, but there is just something so incredibly endearing about seeing your girl find pleasure in all the things you love.

so there you have it. i squished in a little of her sweetness in between all this busy stuff. another busy week ahead, but our “busy” is settling into a new calm as it’s working out quite grand and there is always time to enjoy the small things. feeling blessed and inspired.

~k