
Quick! Live baby or toy doll? This little girl was just so good, it was difficult to pick out one shot for my featured snapshot from this session. As a writer it’s against my rules to tritely call a child a doll, but I made one exception today.

Quick! Live baby or toy doll? This little girl was just so good, it was difficult to pick out one shot for my featured snapshot from this session. As a writer it’s against my rules to tritely call a child a doll, but I made one exception today.

If Christmas was a person, this is exactly what she would have looked like as a baby. One day, boys will say to her, “Santa took sparkly ornaments from the Christmas tree and put them in your eyes” (sorry Dad).

Shelly and Matt have a great little family, with a complete ham of a daughter and a total little bug of a baby boy. I had so much fun hanging out with them and taking pictures. They have endless smiles and lots of laughter, and made it easy to capture so many wonderful moments. We also lucked out on one of the last, warm, sunny fall days, in late November! Afterwards, their daughter showed me all her favorite toys and I would have stayed longer because she was just so hilarious, but I had to reluctantly shuffle off to another shoot. Here are a few of my favorites from that day.





Liying and Kit welcomed their first baby boy early last week! He was nine days after his due date, but just in time for me to meet him during my weekend in Chicago. He slept through most of my visit. He’s so little and so brand-new that you just want to protect and shield him from the big bad world, and tell him to watch out for strangers, dangerous weapons, Corporate America and people who text while driving. Liying and Kit are exhausted new parents, but oh-so-excited, super happy and positively beaming.




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