Snow day photo shoot with Mommy

Check out these artsy photos I took of Alexa on our afternoon walk on Sunday. I used my new camera and we had some fun! Alexa enjoyed watching all the dogs running around at the park. She also enjoyed eating snowballs! I had to go make them with clean snow and then she would drop them and point for me to go make her more. Oh dear, what have I started?!

Our little MODEL!

Both of the wonderful photographers who have taken photos of Alexa are now showcasing shots of her on their Web sites! Of course, we're not surprised. She's so cute!

Amber from Little Moon Photography features this photo of Alexa in her baby slide show:

Erin Nephew Photography also features a photo of Alexa on her gallery page! Actually, she features several shots of Alexa's friends Avery, Ella and Brandon too... Because they are all such cute babies!

We have another photo shoot coming up with Erin this weekend. We can't wait to take some Fall and holiday photos! Stay tuned to see how they come out!

Alexa's Photo Shoot, Part II

Are you ready to be blown away by cuteness? Get ready, because Alexa really is that cute... Adorable! Her family isn't bad either. We had so much fun taking these pictures. It was a little chilly out, but it warmed up quickly, especially in the sun. We started out taking some photos of our new walker practicing her stride...

We twirled her, kissed her, swung her... She was in such a good mood and had a ball with everything. What a little diva! Love her serious face too!

As I mentioned earlier, so many people were out walking their dogs that Alexa had a ball pointing and calling for them. She was so full of smiles. Her excitement was cracking us up. What fun!

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Alexa's Photo Shoot, Part I

We go the CD from our recent photo shoot in the mail! And we LOOOOOVE the photos! Yay! Thanks again to Erin Nephew for taking these gorgeous photographs. Here is darling Alexa as we got ready to head to the park. She is just precious. I love her outfit and I love her expressions!

In case you are wondering about Alexa's darling outfit, the skirt and hair clip are from Pettiskirt Style. The adorable cupcake tee shirt is from Etsy. Under the skirt, she's wearing a ruffle diaper cover, also from Etsy.

Alexa's cake smash! Whoo hoo!

One of the fun things we did during Alexa's 12-month photo shoot is a CAKE SMASH! Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. Baby + cake = Smash! Or, err, something like that was supposed to happen. Honestly, after Alexa's fun with cupcakes last week, I thought for sure that she'd be into it. Alas, we learned a lesson of how unpredictable babies can be! After a few swipes at the cake, Alexa decided that it was too messy!

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We hope she still had fun. We sure did. Thanks to our fabulous photographer Erin Nephew for this wonderful photo montage of the smash! LOVE IT! Also, here's a special behind-the-scenes shot of Erin in action. If anyone in the DC area is looking for a fantastic baby photographer, please call her!

Alexa's 12-month photo shoot!

We woke up early for Alexa's photo shoot, which started at 7 a.m.! I wanted to get pictures of Alexa with her aunts and in her birthday outfit... After shaking everyone awake, we took off for the park down the street. Everyone else in our neighborhood was out walking their dogs, so Alexa was full of smiles the whole time! Here are some shots my sisters took... Consider them sneak peeks until I get the professional ones from our amazing photographer, Erin Nephew.

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Today, we did NOTHING!

Because it rained. Again. Argh! Rain, rain, go away! Since it's cold and rainy, we don't want Alexa to get cold or sick, so we stayed in. And watched TV and slept and ate. It was fabulous.

First, I caught up on all of the "Flash Forward" shows... Addicted! Love it! I also took more cute pictures of Alexa...

And click HERE for today's cute Alexa video!

Also today, we got this ADORABLE storyboard from Alexa's photo shoot! LOVE IT! Now to decide where to hang it... In her nursery?

Alexa's eyes... Are from her daddy!

A big mystery since birth has been Alexa's blue/grey eyes! Since both of us have brown eyes, we were surprised to see our baby have such fair eyes.

As some of you might recall, we did some family research a while back and found out that our baby would have a 5.5% chance of having green eyes and a 1.8% chance of having blue eyes. Brown eyes? We have a whopping 92.5% chance!

So... What gives? Why the gorgeous steely blue/grey eyes?

We just got a surprise in the mail from Papa Bean's mom: Papa Bean's baby book! And... It turns out that he too had blue/grey eyes at birth!

Mystery solved Her eyes are from her daddy! But they most likely will, like his, turn brown as she gets older.

Alexa's newborn photo shoot!

Wow! As if our baby wasn't already the cutest baby in the world... Check out THESE photos from Monday's newborn photo shoot!

Amber from Little Moon Photography was amazing. So patient, cheerful and creative. She got some amazing shots! The ones on her blog are just a few... I can't wait to see the rest! Including the amazing shots she took of Daddy and his little girl all curled up like a ball in his hands!

Alexa's gaining weight!

We had another pediatrician appointment this morning and got some good news: Alexa is already back up to birth weight! Usually babies get back to birth weight around 2 weeks. So, once again, our darling daughter is ahead of the curve!

Not that I am surprised... She eats like a champ. So I figured she must have gained weight since last week!

To recap:

• Her birth weight on Sept. 9 was 7 pounds, 12 ounces.
• However, at midnight on Sept. 12, she was just 6 pounds, 15 ounces.
• By her first pediatrician appointment on Sept. 14, after my milk had come in, she was up to 7 pounds, 2 ounces.
• Today, Sept. 21, she weighed in at 7 pounds, 11.5 ounces!

This all goes to show that she is growing up so fast! Soon she'll be headed off to college...

But until then, the only thing that seems to fit are these adorable onesies from Zara, a gift from Aunt Jen! How cute is she? Too cute...

And speaking of cuteness, we had our professional photo shoot today with Amber from Little Moon Photography. She got some great shots! Can't wait to see them!