This DFW baby photographer feels like my Project 365 hit a bit of a slump this week. I kept forgetting to take photos until the last second of the day–oops. I think it’s just those summer doldrums getting to me. Plus, my husband has been out of town a lot recently and I have been solo parenting it. The baby is getting two teeth as well, and has been in a horrible mood. My maternal grandma has also been hospitalized for pneumonia, so I feel like my heart just wasn’t into photography this week.
Oh well, I try to remind myself that getting it done is what counts and maybe next week I will do better!
DFW BABY PHOTOGRAPHER | WEEK 31

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Baby J is quite the rascal. He loves digging through our lower cabinets, emptying their contents all over the kitchen floor. I can’t get through the kitchen without tripping over plastic cups and bowls. I’d love to put a lock on everything, but I would be depriving him of such a small, simple joy. So, instead I look the other way when he’s up to his mischief, and then I curse under my breath when I step on Tupperware in the middle of the night.

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More summer fun. Holden and Daddy having some water gun fun. Poor Baby J caught in the cross fire.

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We had a few glorious mornings in the low 70s and high 60s last week. It was bliss, and we had to take advantage of that with a bike ride around the neighborhood.

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Did I mention Baby J gets into everything? Here he is trying to disengage the child lock on my china cabinet.

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After a busy morning at the splash park, my boy is spending some quality time in the covers enjoying a movie.

216 | 365 Judd’s favorite toy are these spinning gears. He loves to place his sippy cup, snacks and pretty much anything he can get his hands on onto the top of this gearbox to see what’s going to happen. Love this little baby and his experiments.

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I looked forward to this day for months!! Our family is headed on a beach vacation soon, and we have been keeping that info under wraps all summer. I considered waiting until the day before our trip to break the news to H, but in the end my husband convinced me to do it a few weeks early so H would have time to anticipate the trip and learn more about our destination. We surprised H by sinking a message in a bottle at the bottom of the pool. H found the bottle, which led him on a scavenger hunt to the movie room where a promotional video of our resort was playing. It was so much fun watching his confusion turn to elation! Of course, this silly boy was super perplexed as to how the message in a bottle ended up at the bottom of the pool in the first place. He couldn’t believe that his dad and I were sneaky enough to have dropped it in there when he wasn’t looking. Apparently, that was more surprising than the actual vacation!! Kids are goofs.

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We had an adventurous morning that took us about 1.5 hours from home, and on the way back we got to stop at one of my husband’s favorite restaurants. Granted, we had kids surrounding us so it kind of changed the dynamic, but it was still a treat.
H Parker Photography is a DFW Baby Photographer with a residential studio in Roanoke,TX.
She specializes in classic, timeless studio baby photographs.