Newborn Photos

Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure I never posted London's newborn photos. That's cool, I'm only six months late, it's fine. 

As per usual, the photos were taken by Emily Forsberg and despite London NOT being one of those sleepy, pliable newborns, Emily made the best of it and we ended up with a few very sweet shots. Such precious memories of our tiny tiny girl!

Here's a little secret for moms-to-be and photographers - London wouldn't lay down on a table or chair or anything on top of the blanket. So I laid on the table, draped the blanket across me, and she laid on my chest. Amazingly (because Emily is that talented), you'd never know the difference. Desperate times call for desperate measures, am I right?

OK, so here are a few of my favorites. Hard to believe she was just one week old here *tears*.

Our First Family Photos

I've mentioned several times how generous and talented our friend Emily is, especially when it comes to photography. She did our maternity shots, newborn shots of L, and in November did our first family photo shoot. Despite a very distracted and eventually fussy 4 month old, and an equally distracted and rambunctious dog, Emily was extremely patient (as always) and we ended up with some beautiful shots. They're all up on Facebook, but in case you didn't see them, I wanted to share a few of my favorites.

I'll be damned if this girl doesn't LOVE her daddy

standing up in her little tutu

just love her expression here

our christmas card photo

recreation of last year's photo ( http://eckersons.blogspot.com/2011/12/coming-soon.html )

these two are too adorable

sweet baby

if only we could get all three of us smiling at the same time

her expressions kill me

one of my absolute favs

 

gimme that face!

Merry Christmas

In sticking with the theme this year "Better Late Than Never" - our Christmas cards just went out. Three days after Christmas. But they were sent and we love them, and we hope you do, too.

Merry Christmas, from our family to yours. What a blessed year it's been!

PS: Huge thanks to Emily Forsberg for the amazing photo shoot. And thanks, also, to our friends who used Minted for their Christmas cards (and sent them on time!). We received a few, and loved them, so we used Minted for our cards and were thrilled.

Better late than never

Do you feel like I post that a lot? Because I do. But it's true, it's better to post something 3.5 months after the fact than not at all ... right? Or maybe I'm the only one who feels that way.

So Emily Forsberg (the same dear friend who did our Christmas Card and Maternity photo shoots) gifted us a newborn photo shoot as a shower gift. As it turns out, London was not your typical "mold me, shape me, anyway you want me" type of newborn. She was more of the "the sun is too bright, this stupid lacy romper is hurting me, and oh yeah I just pooped" type of newborn. So we didn't get a ton of great shots, but Emily is so talented that she adapted to London's diva status and - to quote Tim Gunn - made it work.

Here are my favorites, and the ones I'm choosing from to get printed out for our house. Because my child is 3.5 months old and I don't have a single photo of her up in the house. Which, honestly, isn't that surprising considering we have been married five years this weekend and we don't have a single wedding photo up in the house. Good times.

even at one week old, loving the hands

you know she had to have a hair accessory

baby booty! don't mind the diaper rash, poor thing

why so serious?

sleeping beauty

she obviously has her daddy's skin tone