Coincidentally, today also happens to be the day when Audrey’s umbilical chord fell off, which means it’s time to don her water melon swim suite and hit the pool! Here’re some of my favs from the party and her spending her very first dip in the pool with  dad.

Thanks baby girl for the cute pics and looking forward to the baptism!

Big congratulations to my great friends Virginia and Chris on their very first newborn. Welcome home Audrey! We’ve been waiting for you for quite some time now. Even though you were late, you were fashionably late so all is forgiven.

One of my dearest friends from college recently had a baby a few weeks back and I was lucky enough to visit baby Audrey on her birthday, which was about a week later than we all had expected. We tried everything to get her out on her due date. From hiking to eating extra spicy Indian food, but man was she persistent. Took a little extra patience, but I’m glad to say that we’ve got a beautiful bundle of joy for both Chris and Virginia as well as the first official addition to my close group of friends.

After shooting a newborn for the first time in my life last December at the Paris Family house, I was invited out again for round two! This time I came prepared! I made sure to take the photoshoot outside, brought some very fast prime lenses and made sure the venue was just perfect. So that being said, we had originally planned on heading to a small park with a baseball field and some flat grassy fields. I wasn’t too happy with the lack of variety so we ended up driving around for another 30 minutes looking up parks with my iPhone and eventually went to the Kenneth Hahn Recreational Area. That place is HUGE! It comes with such fine amenities such as a playground, waterfal, pond and an AMAZING view of downtown LA. The LA shots will have to wait for another day, so hopefully these will whet your appetite.

Oliver is a 6 month old that can be described as scary cute. This blue eyed blond little kid was so easy to work with. He’d always keep eye contact with me and never shed a single tear.