I sure have been busy! I got to do a family/newborn/baby shoot, a senior portraits session, and did 2-month-old photos of Maisy. We also went to a Brewers game with Josh’s parents! Basically, the week was full of photo fun and some newness with Maisy – I finally got her pathetically adorable frown on camera and she tried out the Bumbo this week and loved it!
Our family is now of five parts! Maisy Joy Calhoun was born on June 19, 2014 at 10:52 in the morning at 8 lb, 10 oz, and 21 inches. This little one brings us so much joy! It truly is amazing how you can love something so much that is so small and really doesn’t do much.
Thanks Mandy for another job well done! You’re the best!
Maybe one day the majority of my “a Photo a Day” pictures won’t be of Maisy. That day isn’t today. This week we have Maisy smiling at me while I work, rockin’ the Moby Wrap facing forward, a view of my little gangsta from the backseat mirror, more Moby Wrap riding but this time snuggled in and sleeping, and a big morning yawn. I did also squeeze in a senior portraits session this week and a baby session among huge quantities of wedding editing, daily mothering, and house loving (I picked paint colors, rearranged, set up a new dining table, planted blueberry and raspberry bushes…). Yup, Josh wasn’t home so I got LOTS done!
Lots of Maisy. Of course. But this week I also photographed a fun event with lots of good food for BRAVA Magazine and a surprise wedding with Brittania Drew!
I knew I loved Maisy even before a pee stick told me I was pregnant. I distinctly remember praying for her on a run one day, a week before even taking the test was a possibility, and I prayed that she would love Jesus to her very core, be so full of joy, and come out perfectly healthy.
The moment I touched her I knew I loved her. This love was more a provident love. I knew all I wanted to do was provide for her and care for her better than anyone else in the world has ever cared for anyone.
But it wasn’t until the day after the hardship of trying to care for a newborn while photographing Sarah + Travis‘ wedding and the full day of mothering maddness that followed that my head love for Maisy found my heart. The thing is, I knew I loved Maisy but I didn’t feel it for a little while. Perhaps part of this is due to the zombie-like nature I found myself in for the first week and a half of new motherhood, but perhaps it is the hardship that finally connected my head with my heart. I have found it is only really “doing life” with someone that seals a friendship. Maisy is and was an easy baby. Motherhood and Maisy made sense to me and I was stress free… until Maisy’s 9th day. On Maisy’s 9th day I photographed a wedding. The wedding went well and Maisy was a champ, but the next day all hell broke loose. Maisy seemed desperate to eat all day long despite the fact that overeating only ended in projective vomit (see”Upchuck and Church“). It was an exhausting day and by the end of it I cried. The next day I woke up to the same baby but with a new dose of help: the moment my sleepy eyes met my newborn’s face my heart filled with this most bubbly, lovely goodness. That was the moment I truly fell in love with my daughter. A couple days later she knowingly smiled at me and we’ve been best friends ever since.
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