Pippa's newborn photos

When Pippa was six days old we had her photo taken by Erin L. Scott.  Kinda pricey, but definitely worth it.  Get ready for a gazillion photos of our beautiful baby who has already changed so much.

Pippa was only awake for these first two photos.

We wanted photos of us with Pippa inspired (okay, pretty much straight up copied) by this photoshoot and Erin was happy to do it.  We did these photos first.

Seeing these two together makes my heart glow.

It was hard knowing what to wear to the shoot.  Not hard deciding what T and Pippa would wear.  Just hard deciding what I would wear.  Mostly because I had no idea what would fit me six days after giving birth.

Love these, but next time we'll get some with our eyes open!

This one is my favorite one of all three of us.

This is my favorite one of just me and Pippa.

I know it is popular to have the baby naked for their newborn photoshoot.  But T and I both didn't want that for Pippa.  Even though newborns are ridiculously soft and have cute tushys we both kinda think naked baby photos are weird and uncomfortable and we wanted her dressed.

This is my very favorite photo from our session.

The purple and white striped onesie was part of a gift from my visiting teacher and friend M.  Before she even gave it to us I was looking for a purple and white striped onesie specifically for her newborn photos!  The purple hair flower clip was made my college friend K.  I made the elastic headband in about one minute the morning of Pippa's newborn photoshoot.

T and I aren't fans of giant satellite sized bows or quirky hats for babies, so the ribbon bows my sister-in -law K made for us are perfect!

Even though Pippa has changed a lot, she still looks a lot like the photos above and below when she sleeps.

She used to do the lopsided lip a lot but doesn't at all anymore.  It makes me laugh how squished her face is in this photo.

Seriously, these photos are perfect.  It's exactly how I remember her the first few weeks.

After the family photos, Pippa in the onesie, and Pippa in the pink swaddle I thought we were done.  We got all the photos I wanted.  It had only taken like 40 minutes though and Erin told us she was planning on three and we should pick some more swaddles / poses.  So we did.

Pippa has T's mom's family's toes.  (Plus five if you followed that with only reading it once.)

I really love turquoise and butter yellow together.  They would make a great color scheme for a wedding.  Confession:  I have like six other weddings planned.  Oh, I'm marrying T in all of them, and the weddings are all very different.  Like a sunrise mountain top wedding, a tropical beach wedding, a super sleek, modern wedding, a barn wedding, a wedding at my favorite church in Iowa, a surprise wedding, and so on.  It's kind of ridiculous how many times I want to marry T and celebrate our love with a fabulous party.

T and I also didn't want any photos where baby's head was held up in her hands. (Sorry that wasn't a good description.  Hopefully you know the pose I am talking about.)  Erin was so fantastic about working with what we wanted.

After the first two minutes Pippa slept the entire time because 1) she was a newborn and they LOVE to sleep and 2) the studio was really warm.  Like 80 or 85 degrees warm.

This photo makes me laugh for some reason.  Maybe because she looks a bit like a middle aged man?

The hair accessories (turquoise flower, brown flower, purple flowers) in the last three "outfits" were all props from Erin.  She had a TON of wraps, hats, bows, blankets, and other props to choose from.  We chose to keep it very simple and clean because that's definitely our style.  Hopefully it's Pippa's style, too!

So there you go!  Like I said before, these photos were definitely worth the money we paid.  Hopefully we can do a newborn photoshoot for all of our babies.