Annie's Newborn Photoshoot

When we had Vivien, American Fork had a photographer in the hospital to take pictures of the baby, so you couldn't really escape pictures if you tried.  It was kind of a stressful experience for us because we were brand new parents and Vivien was crying and having a hard time nursing so we didn't want to give her a pacifier and I think Drew might have wanted to hit the photographer a little bit for bugging our baby for so long . . . so when we had Rafe we didn't have newborn pictures taken at all.  This was a mistake, because he was a beautiful baby, and the best pictures I have of him just don't do him justice.  So, I made sure we got newborn pictures taken of Andelynn.  It took 3 hours in the studio that was 80 degrees (on purpose, so the babies are comfortable in their . . . costumes . . .), and it was still stressful, but I won't feel like a terrible parent now!  

These first ones she is wearing a sleepy sack I designed and knitted.  I wanted to have a picture that had something Japanese-ish since she was born here, and I really like the koi wind socks they use for Children's Day, so I tried to make it look like koi scales.  

In hindsight, I should've gone over to Ashley's studio and looked at her backdrops because the craft store had a really pretty purple yarn that would've looked awesome with this cherry blossom background.  But, I didn't.  So, oh well.  These are my favorite of her little face.

Then there are these:

I love this backdrop, but . . .

. . . the pose kind of reminds me of this:

Ashley likes her babies to be asleep for pictures because they look more "calm and peaceful," but Andelynn was VERY interested in looking around the studio.  So, we got some with her eyes open.

Then we fed her and she was milk drunk for the rest.