This was my third shoot with Brooke. We got to spend a couple hours in Mundy Park in Coquitlam for her photo shoot and she was such a little darling the whole time. I learned this time around that Brooke has a sweet tooth and loves sour keys. Ironic. Obviously it’s the cutest thing ever to watch a kid eat something sour so we set her up on a log and gave her the sour key and I snapped away as her face pursed up, her tongue came out, and her eyes squinted with delight. So cute, right?

Their family is growing too! Brooke will soon have a little brother or sister. Mom is leaning toward a brother; it just feels different this time. It’s pretty neat that the first time I took Brooke’s picture she was only able to crawl and coo. Now we can ask her questions and she can answer them. She can run to where her next picture will be taken and she can chew on a sour candy with her teeth. I hope I get to document this little one as she grows up even more.

When I was editing the photos I thought I’d try adding some textures to a few of the pics so there are some before & afters. It took me forever to get the hang of it but I think they turned out all right! I also am rolling out my watermark. Little mini me and mini Punky to match my logo. Finally!

Anyways, here’s the always cute Brooke.

I remember taking field trips to the pumpkin patch every year as a child in elementary school. They’d load us on the bus, we’d sing songs together and then off we went to spend the morning picking out which pumpkin we’d like to take home with us. I of course wanted the perfect pumpkin. The one that wasn’t too heavy for me. The one that didn’t have too much dirt stuck to it. The one that had a stem big enough to grab, that wasn’t too straight or too bent. The symmetric one. I wanted the one that was styled by nature to be a picturesque pumpkin. They were surprisingly hard to find, like a four leaf clover. But when I did find it, I knew it was the one. And for the record, there isn’t any hidden meaning in this post! Just a fond memory of childhood in the Lower Mainland.

Brooke may be too young to remember this trip to the pumpkin patch first hand, but when she is old enough to look back at the pictures, she may faintly remember running around in her super cute lady bug boots. She may also remember almost losing her balance with every step because the boots were a little awkward to run in. She held it together wonderfully, as toddlers tend to do. She may also remember the wardrobe changes: the angel outfit her neighbour bought for her, the bumble bee costume her mom put her in and the little country girl shirt and jeans. Adorable.

Here’s some photos from my second photo shoot with Brooke at Laity Pumpkin Patch.

When you try something that’s really difficult and it just doesn’t seem to work for you, what do you do? Do you give up after the first couple shots, do you flip out and throw a hissy fit, do you persist and keep trying till the wee hours of the morning (coffee helps), or do you get someone else to do it? I guess a true test of character is what happens when no one is around… Guess which one of the above I did? Well I did them all, except give up. My boyfriend is quite aware of my temper tantrums when I try, try, try and can’t get it right and he’s always right there to console me. Gotta love that stand-by-you attitude!

So here’s the new WordPress theme I grabbed from Add New Themes. Someone else made it and I’m greatful they did.

And now here’s Brooke who was around 10 months old when these were taken. Her mother, Hannah has an aura of motherness about her that I envy. It was a great photography session. One of my favorite pictures was impromptu: the reluctant Hannah who barely agreed to get in front of the camera and her now happier than ever daughter sitting on her lap. Priceless!