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Lifestyle portraits: Turning a wild one

7/29/2017

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Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
So what if it took me 3.5 months to post these 1-year shots of Piper? I met my goal of taking portraits each month for the first year. Maybe by the time she graduates from college, I'll print them in a baby book for her? Maybe.

Good thing I wrote a few words on her birthday, because now it's a blur, like everything else from the first year:

"And just like that, she turned 1. She has been a dreamy baby—exuberant, energetic, affectionate—and has brought so much joy to our family. Now I'm sitting here watching her feed herself Cheerios, drink from a cup and wreak silly havoc all over the house. So this is what it feels like to look in the rearview mirror and see our family's babyhood phase. We're leaving it behind quite tearfully (on my part), but oh how excited I am to see what the next year brings. Happy Birthday, sweet Piper Skye!"

A week after her birthday, she took her first steps. And then she started to run. And, oh my word, it's wild around here. I've completely lost track of when she started to say specific words, but a few of my favorites from real time as I'm writing are “turtle,” “yogurt,” “thank you” and “good girls.” Also “toot.”

Piper loves to be helpful. For example, when I fold the laundry and dole out the big girls' piles for them to put away, she demands to put away her own laundry, as well. This process entails her dragging me by the hand to the stairs while practically smothering herself with her pile of clothing, dropping every item so many times while trying to navigate the stairs that she eventually abandons them all, arriving at the top of the stairs and making a break for her sisters' Legos, then finally reaching her room, riding her rocking horse with a nervous smile plastered across her face, banging on her dresser drawer until I open it, standing on her tiptoes and shoving the laundry in. Then making another break for her sisters' rooms in an attempt to eat a crayon.

She adores Finn, our yellow lab. She flaps her hands and yells, "Buh-buh!" when she sees a butterfly. She shrieks "neighhh" at every horse she comes across. She climbs up on our lowest sofa by herself, where she "reads" book after book. Then she runs over and shoves a book at me, turns around, backs up and sits on me, even if I have not yet sat down to read. (Repeat, for hours.)

There is something else she does regularly, which I hesitate to put into writing. It's something we are quite unfamiliar with. It's something we never experienced with our first two kids. She sleeps! (Let's pretend she sleeps because of something we did, shall we?)

One of the neatest things about having a baby who is almost 4 and 5.5 years younger than her sisters is that we are all in awe of her, together. It's something we have in common—the adoration of this little creature. I was worried that since Cricket and Nora are inseparable and think of themselves as twins, Piper might be the odd one out being so much younger. But as it happens, she is this little twinkling star we find ourselves huddled around, just ooing and ahhing at her sweet and silly antics, taking in everything about her perfectly chubby baby self, together.

Our lives would be so much less ridiculous without you, Piper. We couldn't stand it! Happy Much-Belated 1st Birthday!
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
Lifestyle photography: Turning a wild one (Chapel Hill, NC) By Calm Cradle Photo & Design
More of Piper's portraits: arrival, formal birth announcement, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, 10 months and 11 months.
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