This mom brought her little buddy to our planning session. I walked down the stairs and when he saw me for the first time (like, ever) he ran and hugged me so big! I felt loved. It was good. 

:) What a sweet boy. 

So I get to their house thinking he's going to be quiet and sweet and cuddly...um. No. This little fella is everywhere in his domain! Can I tell you? The boy is ruthless on machinery! He has some super cool little things to drive around the driveway and the yard with and he will flat - out - "get it"...as in pedal to the metal BABY! Loved hanging at his house, watching him play with his "rides", his toy trains, jumping on his bed, playing in the back yard and best of all, watching how he is loved so much by his parents. Love is so fun to watch. ;) 

My favorite thing about this session is that it has kind of an everyday feel to it. Just an ordinary day. Ordinary days when you're 4yo are incredibly cool to look at when you're 24yo. :) 

I could go on and on (and I do most times) about how much I love childhood and real moments. Today won't be much different.

A newborn comes into a family where there's just been one happy little punkin floating around the house for several years and bam! There's a WHAT coming to live with us? A baby??? What's a baby? I'm going to be a big brother? Oh. Okay....whatever that means. 

Fast forward, the baby comes. I've seen alot of things transpire at this point...jealousy, resentment, tenderness and affection....lots of different things. For this family, it honestly felt so  natural. It felt like just another day. Big brother didn't show any huge swings in behavior. He loved and cared for his new baby brother, but he still played and did his thing, too. His whole little self wasn't completely wrapped up in the newness of the change in their home. I loved watching that. 

Sure personalities go a long way but what great parents they are to have prepared their home to roll with the punches. Very inspiring. Very. Loved every second of seeing it all play out. 

This is the first Life, Actually piece we've done with a child under 1. ( The prime age group for this is 1-5yrs. )

How incredibly precious that for her first professional pictures to look back on when she's 20something, she will be able to see how her first words sounded and how much she was loved by her granddad and her "bb". I can't tell you how special it is for us to be able to give such an invaluable memory through the combination of digital images and video. It's powerful...or it WILL be powerful, I should say. Hope you enjoy the show!

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Life, Actually...Remember the moments clearly.
This concept photographed and orchestrated by Tina Wilson Photography (photography of life for life)

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Here are a few of my very favorites from the session....

Laughing, wrestling, tickling, giggling, playing to the camera, hiding from the camera, these are just a few of the ingredients that made this session so fun....and fun-ny!

I've had the sheer pleasure of photographing these kids for several years now and get excited every time I have an opportunity to do so. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times...it just never gets old...I LOVE watching kids grow up! Such an honor. 

Studio sessions are great because they show those sweet little features that we love so much in our children. Like how their little faces are losing baby fat and definition is starting to show. Like how their "big" teeth are coming in and how it's changed the shape of their mouths and their little smiles. We're getting to see a truer depiction of what they are going to look like when their grown. Is that cool to you like it's cool to me? 

Don't you love looking back at pictures when you were little and being able to see "the age" when you could easily tell that THAT was the moment in time when you started to look like you were going to look? This may be much too "Tinaesque" to try to put into words, so sorry if I'm doing a poor job describing it. I just see and feel it and wonder if other people think about those same things. 

There were so many incredible images from this session it was hard to select what to showcase here. The whole session from start to finish was one fun expression after the other. Looking through his images from the shoot, I laughed and laughed and laughed.....umm...out loud. It was quite disruptive to  my staff. Such a funny boy! I enjoyed the giggles. 

You can see his newborn session here if you'd like.

And what is it again that makes me want to chew on those little baby cheeks? Oooh. Love those chunky little parts. Love em. Love em. Love em.