This morning I traveled to Dunwoody to photograph this beautiful 15 month old girl.  She was so cute, and had the biggest beautiful chocolate brown eyes!  She was a talker too, I think she is really advanced for her age, she had quite the vocabulary.

Here are a few photos from our morning together, what a cutie pie she was!

Miss Elizabeth did not want to go to sleep, she liked staying up and hanging out with us.  I’m telling you, these newborns love partying with me.  She was so alert and was so tiny and cute.  Finally she got tired of us fussing with her and she took a little nap.  I love photographing newborns, its such an amazing time for their families and to see how much they change in the first year is mind boggling.

Thank you to the M family for welcoming me to your home and being so kind, it was so much fun and I can’t wait until our next portrait session!

Her Mommy had this beautiful scarf that she got when she went to Paris, I love the color and it made a perfect wrap for baby E.

Thank you to the V family for welcoming me to your home!  You are such a sweet family and I had a wonderful time!

Sofia’s Mommy told me that she is a very serious baby, she sure is cute though and we managed to get some smiles from her, but this is her serious look.

Little Will took a power nap and he was such a happy camper when he woke up!  Check out their dog Lenox sitting behind him, he was the best dog ever.  So gentle with the babies and such a little love.

Together in the rocking chair…

Last but not least, their beautiful Mommy & Daddy!

]]> http://angelacalderon.com/blog/2008/11/01/william-sofia/feed/ 3 http://angelacalderon.com/blog/2008/10/31/happy-halloween/ http://angelacalderon.com/blog/2008/10/31/happy-halloween/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:07:07 +0000 Angela http://angelacalderon.com/blog/?p=360 I hope all of you have a safe and wonderful Halloween tonight!  Don’t eat too much candy and be sure and put the chocolate at the bottom of the bowl so if you are left with candy it will be the yummy stuff.   (just kidding!)

Here are my two little trick-or-treaters!  Email me a photo of your little ones, I would love to see them!

Alice In Wonderland and a Skeleton who said he didnt like wearing his mask because (and I quote) “It hides my cool hair Mom, people can’t see it,”  oh boy, he’s only seven, I’m going to be in trouble when he’s a teenager.

It was so hard when he was born to ever think past those first few rough days when he was sick to even think that things would be ok and that he would be the strong, smart, funny little boy that he is today. I didn’t know that he would end up with these beautiful curls that make people stop us in the grocery store. I didn’t know that he would tell me that he thinks I’m pretty every day, I didn’t know that he would want to hold my hand when we walk in to a store.

He loves pizza, Sponge Bob, Star Wars, dessert, Disneyland, sand, dirt, trains, costumes, surf boards, asking questions, talking about his limo business he’s going to have when he grows up and hats.

Today we celebrate his seventh birthday, my sweet baby boy Spencer. What a wonderful seven years it has been with him in my life. Happy Birthday to my little prince!  Oh and it’s also Talk Like A Pirate Day too!

Believe me when I say that it’s a re-enactment of each and every time that I try and photograph my own children.  Yes I’ve spoken about this many times before and I often compare it to the task of herding cats, it’s almost impossible.  Do I have this same problem with my clients children?  Not at all! They aren’t used to all my tricks and sounds and chicken noises and weird things I wear on my head, they are a breeze, a snap, a walk in the park.

My two on the other hand will pout, scream, cry, pinch, poke, push, shove, complain.  Recently, something happened.  I managed to capture something….to this day I cannot believe it, and I fully expect for it to vanish from my screen at any moment.  There is no pouting, there is no grimacing, it’s just them, together, maybe a little bit of cheese peeking out from their smiles, but trust me, I am not complaining.  I’m almost wondering if I should call The Smithsonian to see if they want this rare photograph.  It doesn’t happen that often and sometimes I find myself wondering if it will ever happen again (of course that thought usually crosses my mind when world war 3 has broken out over some random toy that is forgotten within five minutes in the playroom).

I wish I could show all of the beautiful baby twins from today, but it’s been a long day so I’ll just give you a sneak peek of a few from today.

This little heartbreaker has a twin brother, but he decided that he didn’t want the paparazzi bothering him, so he declined and put his hand up and said no photos, please respect my privacy. Alright so he didn’t say that in so many words, but I think that’s what he would have said if he could have.

For this next one, I can’t use the black and white version for the final one, but for my blog I just had to use it. I love how curious they look.

Hope your Monday was a good one!

And let’s have a little guessing game!  My wonderful maternity client’s belly from yesterday.  She is due in three weeks.  Can you guess what she’s having?  Many people claim they can tell by the positioning of the belly or how high or low it is.  So do you know?  I’ll tell you in a couple of days.

She loved the little chair we have in the studio and even decided she wanted to stand up in it!  Not to worry, her beautiful Mommy was right there ready to catch her if she took a tumble.  Thank you to Miss M and her Mommy for being so sweet today!

Here are a few from our morning together.  I love the little freckle on her chin, it’s her signature mark!

This one is more of an outtake but I love how cute she looks here, it reminded me of my little one who loves to do the same thing with her dresses

? 2. Have multiple power outtages.

? 3. Experience thunderstorm.

?? 4. Get lost because your GPS has no clue where anything is, and you are about as geographically challenged as they come. (deserves a double check)

?5. Order “sweet tea”

?6. Visit Gone With the Wind Museum

?7. Have someone cuss you out on the phone because you “stole” their home phone number.

?8. Get stung by a vicious monster.

??9. Listen to your security system blare for an hour because you have no clue what the passcode is because the system technically isn’t being activated until next week. (double checks because it’s happened twice already).

?10. Can’t call home because you don’t know your home phone number and your iphone reset itself and you lost all your contacts and the home number was one of them. You are reapeatedly asked for your phone number and you have to say, I don’t know. You are then asked for your cell phone number and you have to look on the side where you have taped the number on to the phone with a post it note and a piece of tape.

?11. See the big KFC Chicken

I think I can honestly say that I am now offcially initiated and I’m a Georgian. (Is that how you say it? Hmm) Last week law enforcement showed up when the power went out after the storm when we couldnt get the security system turned off. The power has gone out two times in less than two weeks. My GPS is acting like I’m crazy when I type in addresses, I’m wondering where this attitude came from, she suddenly gets upset when she starts all this “recalculating” mess when giving me directions. I’m waiting for her to scream obscenities at me when I don’t go the way she tells me to go. Sweet tea is a must if you live in the south, I’ve drank my share already and its back to Coke Zero, Diet Pepsi and that yummy Chick Fil-A Diet Lemonade.

Comcast gave us someone elses phone number, no they had not cancelled it, they were still using it and they weren’t so happy when their friends started calling and I told them they had the wrong number. Yikes. So sorry about that, didn’t mean to take your number, you can thank Comcast for that.

Today we were at the pool, I was minding my own business sitting there with my feet in the water while the kids were swimming. I started feeling a really bad sting in my arm and looked down and this huge monster was stinging me (ok it was a wasp, but just let me be dramatic and picture the hugest wasp on the planet). I immediately start screaming like I’m at a New Kids on the Block concert and try and get the darn thing off of my arm. He (I’m calling the wasp a he, he looked mean) wouldnt let go and finally I was able to flick him in to the pool. This darn thing hurts, it made me sick then I had to take a nap for a while. My arm is still swollen and I can still feel the stinging, I guess because I can’t get the stinger out. Google repeatedly talks about venom and all sorts of bad things. Yikes!

(gee I’m rather rambly tonight for someone who was stung by a monster )

This afternoon on my way back from Marietta I stopped for a quick tour through the Gone With the Wind Museum. It’s not real big but they have a lot of neat memorabilia, posters, costumes, etc. So here are a few snaps from there. Oh but before that I passed by the big huge chicken that has googly eyes on top of a KFC restaurant. Apparently it’s a big deal around here as a few people have mentioned it to me, so now I can mark that off my list!

But first, here’s one quick one of my little client Mr. J, from his at home portion of his session…

They sky was completely white for a little while this morning, it was weird!

and here’s that chicken I was telling you about…