NAOMI /Burnaby Baby Photographer

Two weeks ago I met Dan, Kristina and their ten-month-old baby girl, Naomi and their brother's home in Burnaby for a family/baby photo shoot. Naomi was very keen to be photographed. She looked right at the camera, on cue, and was so adorable I loved every minute of this session!

Thank you Dan and Kristina for asking me to take these photos for you!! Naomi is so precious!

Enjoy...

PT Time

I always hoped that Girlie would be one of those kids that would potty train herself by the time she was 18 months old. =) I'm sure every mother secretly hopes for that dream to come true! I decided that today would be the day that I start encouraging Girlie to pee on the potty.

We've had a little potty sitting around for a few months now and she's always been interested in it. She'll even tell us that she wants to go "pee pee machen" (german for go pee) so we'd  take off her pants and diaper and she'd go sit on the potty for a while and play with it, but in the end she always pees beside it on the floor!

Girlie is just over 20 months old now so I thought I'd start being more proactive about this potty training business. I really don't care if she picks up on it right away or not, I just want to see if she will! A few of my friends have girls about her age and they're potty trained, so maybe Girlie can join the diaper free gang!

I bought her cute little big girl undies for Christmas so I pulled them out today. I don't even know if she recognizes when she pees because those disposable diapers absorb a ton of liquid. At least the undies will let her know that she's wet.

So, here's to Day One of Potty Training!

Not sure what she's doing in the 2nd picture here, but whatever, if it works, go for it!

Checking out all the nooks and crannies of this thing

"Mom, you want me to do what in here?"

Check out those panties. She's very proud!

I love this next one.

What's going on there? Where's my diaper?!

Love this one too.

Mission Portrait Photographer /RON, MARY-LOU & FAMILY

The morning of their photo session I looked out my window shortly before having to leave and I was shocked! We had about 4 inches of snow. I called Katy to see what the situation was like in Maple Ridge and she said it was snowy but sunny. At my house it was still snowing pretty hard. The session was going to be in Mission so I feared the roads and conditions would be even worse out there. But no. Apparently I live in some kind of modern day Narnia. I got on the highway at 176 St. and by the time I passed 200th St. there was no snow. At all. Nothing. It came back again around 264th, and gone by Mt. Lehman. As soon as I crossed over the Mission bridge it was back. That was a very strange drive!

I was so glad there was snow at Centennial Park where I met Katy and her whole family. I was picturing all the lovely picture possibilities on my drive out with the snow as the backdrop. I'm so glad it worked out! And seeing this family again was so wonderful! Like I said in their Sneak Peek, this family and I go way way back, back to Kindergarten. It's been about 12 years since I've seen them all, aside from Katy who I met up with once a few years back. A mini reunion. A surge of memories. It was wonderful.

Thank you for having me take your family photos! It was so so great to see you all again and to see how much your family has grown! The little girls are just so cute! I hope you enjoy your photos!