1 month photos

well, the babies will be two months on sunday/monday so it's probably about time I upload their one month photos.

a little background...

several of my friends have taken very cute pics of their babies each month in the same spot (aiden here, madeleine here, and riley here). I thought I would do this as well. As one month rolled around our chair still hadn't arrived, but we had our loaner chair. I really wanted a stuffed animal to sit in the chair with them so that you could see them grow relative to the stuffed animal. I looked all over the internet for one I liked... at a price I liked... and found nothing. then, just in time, Annemarie gave us the perfect teddy bear to use. I decided they should each get their own picture, and since their first month of life was the month of daddy's paternity leave, I dressed them each (in succession) in an "i love daddy" onesie and snapped away.

first, kaylee:

you can see we had some slouchy bear issues and some slouchy kaylee issues.
so we fixed the bear...

and we tried to fix kaylee... (whoops, flop the other way... it could be a new dance move...)


and this is the best we got.

ethan comes in wide-eyed-looking-off-somewhere-else...

or blurry cute face...

so, obviously these pics are better than nothing, but also obviously, I have no photography skills, software, good-camera-ness / maybe my camera is good but I don't know how to use it...

enter danielle. danielle sent me this link and not only was it a cool idea (that didn't involve potential slouching), but she offered to take the pictures, with her camera, and do the photoshopping. (side note: I know how to use photoshop, but don't own it at home. now that I only work in the office a few hours a week and if I want to stay late to work on fun stuff that would be asking somebody to babysit for longer... my photoshop access has just plummeted. I might buy it for myself, but have yet to feel like forking over that much $.)

anyways, we'll be doing monthly photos, not weekly, but I'm really excited about it. At the end of the year I should have a very cute grid of 12 photos for each of the kiddos which I think I'll print and frame up nicely.

so now you want to see what a quality photographer, quality camera, and a little photoshopping can do? here's a bunch of pictures from the photoshoot. you'll see the funny punching pic, a few of unhappy babies, a few of the babies being comforted, and of course, the final results! music is blake playing the piano - it happens to be one of the songs from our wedding, but that's really because that track was closest in length to the length of the video :)

enjoy!