I wrote this for a friend's photography page as a review for our Milestone photos and figured I'd share it here so you can cry along.
When I was pregnant, I found myself
aimlessly scrolling through Pinterest and pinning the cutest baby photos I
could find. Don’t we all? I dreamed about what my baby boy would look like -
Whose nose would he have? What color would his hair and eyes be? The day he was
born, he was the spitting image of my husband, my husband’s dad, and my
husband’s grandfather; the Hinners genes run deep. A few days after getting him home, as he lost
the swollen newborn features, his features started to change. They changed so quickly, that I look back at
pictures a couple of days apart and they look like two different babies!
Lindsay came to our apartment when
Remington was a couple of weeks old to do newborn pictures. She seemed to effortlessly capture his
personality, even catching one of those sweet sleeping smiles. Even still, he
was changing. His cheeks were still chubby and pinch worthy, his eyes were
widening a bit, and his hair was growing so quickly. It was all going so quickly and I couldn’t imagine losing
one more second of each fleeting phase! I reached out to Lindsay to ask if she would
do his milestone pictures, and she agreed!
Looking back, I couldn’t fathom not
having these pictures. They are some of our favorite memories hanging in our
home. I can look at them and remember who my little baby was at that point in
time. At his three month pictures, he
was barely able to push up enough to keep his heavy head held high. He had
recently found his tongue and was obsessed.
Lindsay also captured our first professional picture as a family of three; it
is something I will always cherish!!
Between
Remy’s three and six month pictures, he developed quite the personality. He was precious and he knew it. He had the
silliest smile and was still a little wobbly when sitting up. He had just found
his pointer finger and, much like his tongue in his 3 month pictures, was
obsessed. I remember crying quite a bit after his 6 month pictures because I
couldn’t believe my sweet baby had changed so much!
By nine
months, my sweet boy had gone from being precious to being a ham. He loved being in front of the camera. I
remember by these pictures that crawling had just entered his skill set and he
had just found his voice. I was reminded, after looking through the 9 month
pictures to pull my favorites, how much Remy had started to love daddy’s
duck calls. Lindsay was so thoughtful to incorporate it into the pictures!
And lastly, for his twelve month
pictures (which I really feel like they were taken the week after his newborn pictures),
I was already a teary eyed mess going into them because I was in partial denial
that my baby was already a year old! He was trying so hard to walk, and would
take his first steps two days later! We incorporated a cake smash session, too!
Words of advice – opt out of
chocolate icing! You’ll thank me! ;)
Holding each set of pictures next to the ones before both
breaks my heart and makes me smile. (I don’t dare hold the one year next to the
newborns unless I want to cry!) I can go back and watch him grow all over
again! This has been the best investment we made in Remington’s first year!
