My niece's 3 month photoshoot

 I must gush as my niece is just the cutest lil' baby girl and I could take pictures of her non-stop...but alas, my bro and his family along with this sweetie live in Cheese-land, WI and so we only see each other about every 3 months anyway.  So to make our yearlong photo documentation of Anna's life "official", they came to us for a visit / photoshoot.  You can see Anna's beginning moments at by clicking the following links: 

http://mommasandbabies-jennsorbe.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-new-niece.html

http://mommasandbabies-jennsorbe.blogspot.com/2010/08/more-images-from-my-niece-anna-session.html

 My son giving his little cousin some love.  =)

Baby Alika

~Meet the adorable Alika~

...So small she fits inside a Twins baseball cap...this little one has her own story. Weighing in at only 1 pound, 10 ounces and 13 inches long, Alika had some fighting to do.

She was born April 23, 2010 at 4:11 in the morning; her mommy was only twenty seven weeks pregnant when this she made her entrance into our world. Alika spent 96 day in the NICU.

Now home, I had the great privilege to photograph her. Alika is still on oxygen and you will see in some of the photos her O2 tubing as well as her feeding tube in her belly. We were able to take the tubing off for short moments to photograph her without it; however, these things are part of her story and take nothing away from how beautiful she is. Her parents agree. What a wonderful experience.

Thank you Mesa and Dustin!

Had to share

If it were up to me, I'd have more of this man's babies!  Seriously, look..can you blame me?  It melts my heart.  (btw - this man is my husband... in case you were wondering.)

More images from my niece Anna's session

~Miss Anna~

The following are a bit more candid of my beautiful niece with the natural light coming in from their bedroom window. There is just something so moving [to me] with natural light photography; especially with babies. It's just so real and maybe I'm just a sap for these little babies (especially if she's my niece)!

My brother with his little girl...

Here with his eldest and prior to Anna, only daughter of 4...

Diaper changing time with the former "baby" of the family...

Below we're trying to see if we can prop her us a bit with mommy & daddy's help but being only 48 hours old, she was just way too floppy, as she should be...But the image shows how little she is inside her parents hands. Love it!

Mr Braxton - 2 weeks old

My beautiful and glowing friend Holly gave me a call after her little darling entered this [crazy] world so that we could capture his newness [before the new wore off into babyness...we moms know how fast that goes! Can't believe mine is 6 months old already! Oie!]. I had taken Holly's pregger pics just weeks before our little Braxton decided that he was ready for the outside world; earlier than expected but right on time for mom & dad! I will be uploading pics as I have them done over the next 2 weeks.