I know so far I've just really been talking about "stuff". But even a high maintenance mama knows that stuff is the least important part of having a sweet baby. When she's long grown out of her nursery, her toys, her sweet little dresses only the memory of this time will remain. Well, the memory and the photos!
For this mama, the 40 weeks I was preggo with Baby Girl was the absolute most special time I had had in my life to that point. I'm sure it sounds nuts, but from the very beginning I absolutely couldn't wait to have my baby bump! After years of exercise and keeping it all "sucked" in, I couldn't wait to let my belly hang out at the beach. Couldn't wait until I could balance a bowl of popcorn on it. You get the picture! During my pregnancy, I felt the best I've ever felt and was just absolutely blissfully happy each and every day. All of this brings me to something I had so much fun doing and am so glad my husband and I took part in: bump pictures!
My hubby wasn't too keen on the thoughts of the pics and even asked to not be in many of them, but once her saw them, he was so glad we did them. Especially now, looking back, even though it was just last year, it's so nice to almost see how we were feeling at that point.
So obviously if I'm going to say that bump pics are important, you can only imagine my thoughts on baby pics! Oh yeah, we have LOTS of baby pics! We were so thankful to be able to have
Brandi Pitts with us at the hospital the day Baby Girl arrived. We had already formed a good relationship with her from the bump pics and by the time the baby was here, she already felt like a friend so it wasn't intrusive at all to have her there with us. She just kind of hid in the corner while we snuggled and cuddled our new bundle, completely oblivious to her even being there. It wasn't until a couple of weeks later when we were looking at our photos that I was able to remember some of those moments that I had already forgotten during the rush of Baby Girl's first few hours.
Since Baby Girl's arrival, we've had newborn, 3 month and 6 month photo sessions with Brandi. I truly feel so blessed to be able to keep up with the changes and milestones from each session. We will continue to have photos taken every 3 months until her first birthday. At that point, my husband says we'll do photos once a year, but I say that's still negotiable. I mean, I don't plan to have 96 month photos taken of her, but as long as she changing so quickly, I want these changes captured!
I suppose to this point, this may the topic I feel strongest about. You don't have to spend a ton of money or have your walls plastered with baby photos (not that that's a bad thing...our house is now a gallery), but at least find someone who knows how to work a camera well and take those sweet pics of your sleeping newborn, your smiling 6 month old, etc because believe me, when that sweet sleeping newborn is big enough to splash in the dog's water, crawl faster than you can walk and sneeze green peas all over the kitchen table you'll want to remember it!
