Taking it easy…

For 7 weeks, 1 day, 1 hour, and 25 minutes, I have been a mother.  What an adjustment and an experience it has been!  Sleep, nurse, and change diapers – those are my day-to-day activities!  Instead of the Jodi Picoult novels I usually love to read, I am reading books that I haven’t picked up since my own childhood.  The Pokey Little Puppy is my favorite!  Tonight we start our Kindermusik classes (visit kindermusikontheriver.kindermusik.net, it should be lots of fun!), and I am learning sign language for babies to be able to communicate with him well before he can talk.  I love tummy time, and waiting for him to fall asleep so that I can take beautiful sleeping baby pictures.  I find that my cell phone camera works just as well as my 5D in a pinch, even if the images are much tinier and not nearly the quality.

Outside of motherhood, I’ve shot two weddings since having him, and am completely booked for the month of October with weddings and engagement sessions.  I’ve met with a lot of wonderful brides for their 2009 weddings, and am actively planning the small photographer meetup for the end of October.  Devan and I are making plans for WPPI ’09 in Vegas for February, and I am waiting (impatiently) for the new Canon 5D to be released in a few weeks so that I can get my hands on it!

I had to buy a new laptop after my old one was dropped a few too many times, and I don’t have many images moved over to this one yet (they are all on the desktop and I am too tired to go to the other room to get it!), but wanted to share one of my favorites shots of our little man.  This was taken at 13 days old.  Travis and I were setting up a shot in our nursery, and I had laid Maddox down to get myself into position.  I about fell over when I saw him lift his little head and hold it way up!  I was fortunately already laying on the ground, so I grabbed my camera and started shooting.  Isn’t he so handsome?  He’s so much larger now, and I promise I’ll post more images soon!

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