Jade, Sophie and the bump.........

My lovely friend Jade is pregnant with her second baby.  The bub is due late January and I offered to take a few photos of her, her bump, and soon to be big sister Sophie. I know I felt particularly hideous when pregnant, but once that bump is gone, it's nice to have some photos to look back on. It's also lovely to have some photos with your first born before they become a big sister!

I am not a professional photographer, but I do enjoy  my photography, and I love taking photos for friends.  It's awesome to go to their houses and see photos I took up on their walls!  Aside from photos of my own pregnant belly,  I've never taken maternity photos. I've posted quite a few of my own bump shots previously and I did commandeer Anto (who is very handy with the camera) into doing some shots of me and Astrid when I was 38 weeks pregnant with Søren. I loved my Astrid and bump shots and hoped I could manage some lovely pictures for Jade.

We had a particularly bad weather forecast for the weekend, but we planned to meet early on Saturday morning to beat the rain and gain maximum cooperation from the toddler.  It's lucky we had an early start as not long after we finished it bucketed down ....... pretty much for the rest of the day! We did catch some awesome storm clouds as a backdrop though - and no one got wet, so it all worked well.

Jade is definitely in the 'feeling big, uncomfortable and over it' stage of pregnancy but I think she looks awesome. Hopefully these pictures will remind her of how lovely she looks.........

Of course I had a get a few pictures of the very cute Sophie!  Sophie and Astrid have been attending each others birthday parties for a few years now and Sophie is rather photogenic, so regular blog readers might recognise her from some previous posts.

Like many 2 year olds Sophie was a little shy and had definite ideas about what she wanted to do and when, but she was more than happy to have a chat about Peppa Pig and have a good run around with Astrid. We ended up with more than enough gorgeous photos, even if I did have to keep Astrid out of some of them (my girl likes to have her picture taken!).

We also got some great shots of Sophie with Jade's bump.  Jade will have the same age gap between Sophie and the baby as I have between Astrid and Søren.  I'm sure Sophie will be a great big sister too! She was quite keen to tell me about the baby in there, although she did thin her new brother or sister should be called 'Blue'.

Some of my favourite photos though were of Sophie and Jade together. I think we got some crackers, and I really hope some of them end up printed and framed! So much cuteness.........

Favourite Photo Friday 5/12/14

Something a little different for my 'Favourite Photo Friday' post this week.......  I can't believe it's yet again the first week of December and the year is almost over, time goes far too quickly!  It seems like not that long ago we were heading back from our 2012 Europe trip, but it was 2 years ago...to the day!  That business class flight back is only a memory now :) Astrid seemed to turn from a baby to a toddler on that trip and we thought she was all grown up, but little did we know.....

Last December we still had a very tiny, and very sleepy, newborn Søren, and big sister Astrid seemed rather grown up all of a sudden.  She was certainly getting in the spirit of Christmas baking and looking after her little brother. Now the formerly tiny Søren is just taking his first steps and his big sister is a little girl, not a toddler anymore.

For fun I've picked just a few of my favourite photos from the first week of December in 2012 and 2013..... a lot has happened since then!

2012

Bruges

D80 with Tokina 12-24mm f4.0

ISO 640 focal length 12mm

Exposure: 1/400 @ f5.6

Bruges

D80 with Tokina 12-24mm f4.0

ISO 640 focal length 14mm

Exposure: 1/320 @ f5.6

Ghent

D80 with Tokina 12-24mm f4.0

ISO 1000 focal length 14mm

Exposure: 1/400 @ f4.0

London

D80 with Tokina 12-24mm f4.0

ISO 1000 focal length 15mm

Exposure: 1/60 @ f5.0

2013

D7000 with Nikon 35mm f1.8G

ISO 500 focal length 35mm

Exposure: 1/320 @ f1.8

D7000 with Nikon 35mm f1.8G

ISO 1600 focal length 35mm

Exposure: 1/200 @ f3.2

D7000 with Nikon 35mm f1.8G

ISO 800 focal length 35mm

Exposure: 1/125 @ f1.8

D7000 with Nikon 35mm f1.8G

ISO 640 focal length 35mm

Exposure: 1/80 @ f1.8

Mr Grumpy Pants......

I was sorting through the last couple of months of photos and found a bunch of photos from early October, when  Søren' was 11.5 months, that I had tagged but not done anything with.  We had taken the alpacas for a walk to the nearby paddock to have a play and an eat.   Søren was not in a good mood and demonstrated his general annoyance at the world.  From memory I was trying to get a few cute photos of him playing with his favourite ball.  It did not go to plan.......

Here is photographic evidence that babies do not always cooperate, and some days grumpy faces are all you are going to get.

Mr not happy grumpy pants.....

Yep, some good cranky faces there! See he isn't, always smiley and happy....... although most of the time he is still my happy  Søren.
Eventually he decided to have a play with his big pink ball. It's actually Astrid's ball but he loves that ball!  Cute Søren was actually back for awhile........

 

Not many smiles this day, but a few cheeky looks, some crazy hair, and some quiet contemplation.  At least the screaming stopped!

 Luckily I have plenty of opportunity to take pictures of happy Søren.  It doesn't hurt to have photos of his other moods....... he has such an old man face when he is grumpy!