Thomas is ten and a half months old as I type this, but I just now have his 8 month professional pics ready to share! I think I've mentioned it before that we purchased a "First Year" package with the ever so talented Lisa Mac when he was born. The package includes four photo sessions throughout his first year so we can capture him in all his different baby stages. We hesitated buying the package because it was a little bit pricey, but oh my goodness, Lisa is so dang talented! It is amazing to me what all she can do! She is a jack of all trades - an awesome photographer, lead singer in a band, amazing painter, and who knows what else. I could go on and on about her but instead I'll just say this: if you need pictures made, look her up!
The pictures in this post are from our third session with her. Click here to check out our newborn session and here to see Thomas's four month photos. I should note that I majorly resize these photos to upload onto the blog so the quality gets majorly compromised. I promise they are super clear and crisp in real life. Don't want anyone to think Lisa Mac isn't a crazy good photographer. :)
I had high hopes that Katie Wynn would be out of her shy stage for this photo session (I let her come to each one in hopes of getting pictures of them together) but no such luck. I even talked it up with her for the week leading up to it, and even though she was excited that morning, she clammed up and didn't cooperate when the camera came out. That girl! I had brought some cute toys with us because I thought it would be so cute getting pictures on an all white background of them just playing together. Katie Wynn wouldn't sit and play but Thomas still looks cute with the toys! I really wanted one of her pushing him in her stroller, but she just wouldn't do it.
Lisa always sends me the unedited pictures straight from her camera and then I get to choose which ones actually get edited. Having seen the original shots, I can attest that his eyes were this bright blue all on their own! It was crazy clicking through the shots and seeing them almost glowing and knowing they hadn't been touched up or anything. I hope they always stay this bright!
The blocks were another toy that I brought that I just knew they would play with together. Katie Wynn loves to build towers and knock them down, just not when there's a flashing camera around, I guess.
Lisa set up this shot and took all these photos while I consoled a tearful Katie Wynn. I couldn't believe that he sat in this top heavy basket and never once toppled over! He has this crazy eyebrow that shoots up when he really grins big and you can kinda see it in this one. I love it. The colors of this one also show off the strawberry color in his blond hair.
JOLLY POP! Here's a fun fact: the pallet wall behind Thomas has three outlets on it that all made it into the picture. Lisa waved her magic photoshop wand and made them disappear!
This picture cracks me up. Lisa wanted so bad to get a sweet picture of him laying on his belly and holding his head up looking at the camera. All Thomas wanted to do was crawl towards the camera! He wouldn't even lay still long enough for her to pick up the camera. But the very best part of the picture is that I also have the version that has not been edited...between the legs. :) It is too funny and will absolutely be making an appearance in a wedding slide show when the time comes. :)
Katie Wynn never really did warm up to the camera, but I absolutely adore this shot that Lisa got of her. My mom had brought all kinds of prizes for her (that obviously didn't work) but one was this Elmo book. (The page she's on is actually Cookie Monster.) I just love it because it so perfectly captures her right now. She loves to flip through books and look at the pictures and Sesame Street is full of her favorite little monsters!
And then there's this one that just totally melts me.
I have those two above in color as well and keep going back and forth on which way I like them better. It's going to be hard to decide which ones to print and hang!
The last set up of the day was in front of this brick wall. I chose these pictures of each of them and didn't even realize until now that they're in similar poses. Similar, but different. I think Thomas's captures his sweet little boyness and hers shows her shyness and how hard she was trying to keep from smiling.
I can't believe we only have one photo session left! It should be an adventure as I think we'll attempt to get a couple of full family shots. (Well, maybe not FULL family if the big kids aren't available.) And we're going to head outside the studio for some outdoor pictures. I'm eager to see what Lisa will pull off. In the mean time, I've got to figure out where I'm going to display all these pictures. I'm going to go broke buying picture frames!