I know Evan’s parents have been anxiously awaiting their blog update and today I was chastised by my mother for lack of blog updates so here we go! The days are just moving by too quickly and there’s so much going on!

When I stepped in the door to Evan’s house, he smiled and he kept smiling throughout the whole session. What a happy little guy! It’s not hard to see why either, he’s obviously quite adored. :)

He was also just discovering his tongue and the joys of sticking it out.

Sweet dreams. :)

**1. I’m giving some thought to adding one more day of MINI-SESSIONS. They would be held on a Saturday in November, outdoors, and would be $500 for a 20 minute session, 10-12 proofs, 5 digital files or 4 digital files and 50 custom holiday cards. Is there interest in this? Please drop me a line if you think you’d like to book.**

2. The wife of a friend of mine (and mother to two adorably cute boys who I’ve photographed) just started a new blog called Mommyapolis. She’s sharing fun recipes and neat craft project ideas and I think it’ll be neat to watch her blog grow.

3. The North Star Roller Girls’ Season Opener is next Saturday, October 24th! If you’ve never seen a bout, now’s the time. If you just saw Whip It and want to see what derby is really like, now’s the time. The doors open at 6:30, bout starts at 7:30pm. If you sit track-side, and you should (unless you’re under 18, in which case, you can’t – but don’t worry, plenty of families bring kids and sit in general admission. Kids under 10 are free.), tickets are $12 in advance, $14 at the door. I’m excited to be going and hope to recruit some new fans this year!

And, y’know, some photos…

(Upon being asked who has the stinkiest feet.)

The Primrose gallery goes live tomorrow. I’m pretty excited for parents to see their photos! It’s been fun going through and editing them.

My first day, working with the youngest infants, I mostly made lots of goofy, really wide-mouthed faces. My face felt like a stretchy rubberband clown by the end of the day. When I got to the older kids, I developed a pretty set spiel we went through about how many brothers, sisters, cats, dogs, etc., they had. Being asked about cats or dogs made nearly everyone who had one smile (even though many of them couldn’t remember their pet’s name) but being asked about brothers or sisters…notsomuch.

Then I asked them if they had purple eyes.

Looking through the photos for each kid, I can tell on exactly which photo I asked them that question. They are either laughing at the crazy lady or looking very quizzically at the crazy lady. It was great. :) I also asked them if they had hamburgers for breakfast. Parents, either lots of your kids are good jokesters or way too many of you are feeding them hamburgers for breakfast. With ketchup.

It hasn’t been long since these four kiddos were featured on the blog after their family session. They haven’t changed a whole lot, but wait until you see little brother Brody who is now four months. He’s coming soon…

The moms of these cuties are the owners of Primrose School of West Plymouth, a preschool for infants through Pre-K that also provides before and after school care for children ages 5-12. And just like family sessions, they agreed that school portraits don’t necessarily have to be done studio-style either so I had the awesome opportunity to spend three days at the school, doing school photos Glimpses of Soul style. It was a whirlwind of photos and cute faces and new friends – I’m not even sure how many kids I ended up photographing exactly, somewhere around 180. I’m working like crazy now to get them edited and prepared for the parents and I’m so excited for them to see them! I wanted to stick up a few on the blog for now.

And a photo my trusty assistant grabbed while I was busy working, with the help of my new friends in the Infant II room. :)

I’ll try to keep posting a few every now and then while I continue to work.

I have to say, I’m kind of appreciating the dreary weather because it’s making it much easier to stay inside and edit away. Sneaking up some August pics for this post…