When I am photographing a new family I want to help capture, document, and preserve all of those tiny bits that come along with new life. Maybe the dishes haven’t been done in a week, and the freezer is full of food made by other people. Maybe packages line the hall unopened, you can’t remember if you brushed your teeth last night, or this morning, and your toddlers have logged more hours of TV in a week than they did all last year. This time is now and it will never be repeated in the same way. This is the good stuff! Trust me, this is it. I want to catch the joy, the fatigue, the bedheaded toddlers. I want to document new life in peely skin, fuzzy ears, full puckered lips, protruding navels, and startled reflexes. I want to freeze time for this new being and her family… preserve it indefinitely.
I want to share how sensitive, peachy, and fresh her skin was -not remove every trace of red and smooth over every bump and pore. I want to capture how much her twin sisters were in awe of her, adored her, and did everything in their 2 year old power to “be gentile”…”wait”… and “be quiet” when told, just so they could continue to be near her. I want her to look back and see the way Becca and Laney kept putting their barrettes in and out of their hair, busily slipped all over the hardwood floors in their cabley tights, and were overjoyed making silly laughing faces at daddy through the kitchen windows. I want to show how crazy life is for two young parents, now outnumbered with three under three! I want this family to be reminded of the days their twins loved everything pink, wanted to be read to all day long, and had a new found fascination with all things Shrek. I want you, Ashlyn, to know just what life was like when you were nine days old. I want you to be reminded that on your 9th day you were a wonder. You were immersed in the every day of your family. You were loved.
Meet Ashlyn. 9 days old when I came to photograph her during her first week at home.
Thank you for scrolling through- it takes a lot of images to tell a story. :) To see another fun outing I had with Rebecca and Delaney please click here.