Maisy Joy is 1 month old!

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Kaia Calhoun

… well actually she is 2 months next week but these photos were taken at 1 month.

Being a Mom is so much better than I imagined, Maisy is way more fun than I could have dreamed, and I am way more in love than I thought myself capable. Every time I look at this little girl my heart seems to bubble with joy. I look at her and see all the goodness there is to be had in life, especially when she smiles her big, goofy grin back up at me. I’ve been told so many times to enjoy every minute with this little girl because time will fly so I am trying my hardest to do just that! On of my ways is by taking photos of her like this. I’m thankful even more now than ever for my passion for photography because this really is the only way I get to freeze my little girl in time.

My intention for this shoot was to also get her outside but that just didn’t happen. Maybe for her 2 month I can do the outdoorsy things I had hoped to accomplish in the 1 month… we will see. What I did do though were some basic shots of her because I want to do the same shot every month for a year to better see how she’s growing and changing. I also did some on the quilt I made her and photographed her adorable little details (eyes, mouth, etc). I’m also tickled that I got some photos of her with Grammie and even me!

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OR more of Maisy… 3MO belly, 9MO belly, newborn, 2WK baby.

a Photo a Day | June 16 – 29

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Kaia Calhoun

I went into labor on June 16, finally had Maisy on June 19, and stayed at the hospital until June 21 as my husband and a bunch of fantastic family and friends moved us into our house. Finally, on June 21 my husband brought me and Miss Maisy home and I’ve been figuring this mom thing out while trying to unpack and catch up on my photography work… all while trying to rest and recover from giving birth. The past two weeks were not forgotten photographicallly though! During labor my doula took some beautiful photos on my phone. After birth and ever since I just can’t take enough photos of Maisy!

Week 1 | June 16 – 22

Week 2 | June 23 – 29

a Photo a Day | April 7 – 13

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Kaia Calhoun

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Photo 1: My 8MO session with Scarlett!

Photo 2: With the nice weather I opened the windows in the studio… I look over to see Haley trying to get as close to said window without falling off the couch.

Photo 3: A spread of my photography in BRAVA Magazine‘s April issue!

Photo 4: BRAVA Magazine gifts all their freelance photographers an ad once a year. Mine ran in the April issue!

Photo 5: Our house is a busy place with Josh hosting music lessons and me conducting my in-home photography studio. I made this sign so I can welcome his students into the house without having to drop my work to go answer the doorbell. I figure this will be particularly necessary when we have a dozing baby! You wake the baby, you die! Just kidding.

Photo 6: I also made this palette board map art this weekend. Since we can’t paint our walls in our apartment I wanted to get the baby’s colors incorporated into our space somehow!

Photo 7: An attempt at a prego selfie (31 weeks pregnant). All you folks who have mastered the prego selfie, I don’t know how you do it! I find it very troublesome standing sideways while holding the camera in a place that won’t block anything and still manage to snap the picture without dropping my phone…