Little Bennett, the Terrific Two

Here's a wonderful family I met last weekend. Please say hello to little Bennett.

Can you tell this strong little guy was getting over a stomach flu at our photo shoot? I can't either. He seems happy and still managed to give me some smiles that day.

Days before our photo shoot, his mommy emailed me and told me 2 things:

1. Bennett just rip a scab off his forehead in his sleep the other night.

2. Bennett has been having diarrhea for about a week now.

Yikes! Well, the forehead, we can lightened up the scab with some concealer and then work some magic in the post-processing. Not a problem. That's the beauty of digital images. I still remember back when I used to shoot and develop my black & white film in the dark room, I would have to mix the black retouching liquid with water to get the right grey tone before I could retouch my photo with the paint brush. Now it only takes a few clicks to fix - PS magic!

But with the diarrhea, I can't possible fix that (I wish I could). We can only have him change his diapers right away if it does happen during our shoot.

So I suggested to do the photo shoot at their house, just in case Bennett felt sick or had to change his diaper immediately, we had a comfortable place to handle all that. Well, their house turned out to be a great location because not only is the house beautiful, the light in the living room was gorgeous. We stepped outside for the rest of our session and drew all over the street with our sidewalk chalk too. Fun!

{ Thank you Sandra & Andy for having me over. I hope Bennett is fully recovered now and is back to his old self. Hope you guys enjoyed these sneak peeks }

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My little dolphin...

...finally knows how to do the butterfly. Congrats on getting your GOLD certificate my little Aidan. You should be so proud of yourself.

Our Family Tradition...

My youngest one woke up to a room filled with colorful balloons all over the ceiling on his 4th birthday this year. This have somehow became a little family tradition now. I started doing this when my older one turned 4. I surrounded his bed with helium balloons tied to little matchbox cars all around him. He was obsessed with the Cars Movie back then and that's what I tied them to. It was like all of his cars holding a balloon celebrating with him when he woke up.

This year, the night before Cooper's birthday, I decorated his room with helium balloons all over the ceiling so that when he opened his big eyes, he would see ALL the balloons right above his bed up on the ceiling. I sneaked into his room and taped streamers on his door and hung up the felt birthday banner I made him. So that morning, he woke up to a room filled LOVE.

I love birthdays. I love seeing their happy little faces when they wake up. I love balloons. And I love celebrating every occasion. And I will continue this little family tradition year after year until they are sick of their mommy sneaking into their room at night.

I snapped a few quick shots that early morning, at exactly 7:47.am, the exact time Cooper was born... just 4 years ago in 2007.

Happy 4th Birthday my dearest little one.

Now stop growing up so fast already.