I couldn’t wait to get Thomas’s newborn pictures taken.  Holy sweetness.  There is nothing like a newborn baby.  The smell, the tiny toes, the barely-there hair.  Our photographer Erin came to our house on a Friday morning a few weeks ago (before our big boy went back to school) and set up our newborn shoot right there at home.  This is the best thing ever – we never had to leave the house!  Having the pictures taken at home also made for a very personal shoot, sharing bits and pieces of the home we’ve made for both of our little guys.  It was just so very special.

For Andrew, I totally themed out the pictures and they were precious.  For Thomas, I didn’t really think about theming the photos because I was busy running around a 4 year old in New Orleans summer heat.  When photo day came, I was like…um, what am I going to do with these photos?  Thankfully, Erin knew exactly what to do.  She pulled props out of our nursery and made it happen.  Our dining room rug became a great photo backdrop.  The basket that houses our extra blankets added texture to some of the shots.  And of course, Andrew popped into some of the shots using the rocking chair, his favorite place in Thomas’s room.  They even wore their matching Big Brother/Little Brother dinosaur shirts from Personalized Bayou.  Here’s some of the sweet shots from our peanut’s first photo shoot.