I’d love to tell you I was running the show during this session, but that would just be a lie.  That said, I can tell you I came well prepared.

You see, I have one of these. Nearly the same make and model to be exact.

The same hands-on-hips-tell-you-how-it’s-gonna-be little firecracker. Preschool-going-on-20. Yep, that one.

Minus those beautiful golden curls.

And, hey, the picture says it all. “Don’t mess with the curls, people.”

My to do list was long this weekend, including staging all of Bella’s clothing/toys/baby gear from the past four years to sell it in an “un-garage” style kind of way. Whew! So now, I’m on to blogging – seven sessions to catch you up on and I’m going to attempt to share one every day this week. We’ll see if I’m successful. The writer in me would love to pen a novel about each one of them. The photographer in me (and the crazed mom who desperately wants to make it to bed at a reasonable hour tonight) says keep it short and let the images do the talking. I’ll probably reach some sort of compromise with myself as the week goes on.

For now, enjoy sweet Payton – you’ve seen her on the blog and my business cards before. She was my original hot pink tutu girl at 9 months. Now, she’s officially a “big girl” about to be a big sister. After several months of cooler weather studio sessions, tons of newborns and lots of shooting on location downtown and other places, it was nice to get back to a simple, natural light photography session at a client’s home just capturing the many expressions of a child.  Enjoy!