I recently shared a post about my session with my friend Linda and her (growing) family at their cabin in PA (check those images out here). And although I loved those photos, I consider these the true pièce de résistance.
Introducing Devon.
He is just so wonderfully and adorably precious. And, might I add, he looks just like his daddy.
Not long after Devon was born in December, he was showing signs of lung trouble. Nothing major came of it, but about a month ago he was sick again. Linda is such a trooper; when telling me about little Devon’s ordeal, she seemed so collected as she wrote:
“He was having a lot of trouble breathing and his heartbeat was all over the place and his skin was really blotchy. They checked him for RSV the flu, pneumonia – all negative. Then they thought he had a problem with his heart so they called in an echocardio gram. It was normal. No fever. They also gave him a bag of fluids cause he wasn’t eating. So once he was able to breath normally and his heartbeat was normal they let us go home.”
Here’s a photo by Linda of Devon, about three hours before he was released from the hospital:
All the while, daddy is on a submarine and has no communication with the home front…
Which brings me to the next point. Linda really wanted to do a session with baby D before daddy gets back. She wanted to surprise him (sweet, yes?) with the pics when he gets home. So as soon as Devon was better, we set up a session on one of those 60-degree February days we’ve been having, hoping to head outside. Well all baby D wanted to do was eat. He’s putting some of the weight he lost while sick, so I don’t blame the little guy.
And then – finally – the thing photographers hope for the most for a newborn session: sleep. Glorious, deep, malleable baby sleep. Linda was so patient through it all. It helped that I wasn’t rushing off anywhere, and we had time to wait for him to fall asleep. The waiting really paid off.
Happy viewing!!
He looks just like his Daddy here
Big sis (aka B) had to get her own pictures of D
Finally got a chance to get the two of them together
Enough said…
And… sleep.
I adore how his right cheek is all squished up!
Hope you sighed and smiled half as much as I did while photographing him!!
I definitely smiled! Excellent series of photographs. Thank you for sharing them!
Just lovely, Ann! Beautiful images!