Our beautiful baby girl is finally here and words cannot describe how my world is now forever changed- forever better.
Meet Charlotte Jane Barnes. These photos are her at 4 days old. And be prepared for more posts of photos of her from here on out because I just can’t help myself.
I’m still on maternity leave and will only be answering emails and returning phone calls once or twice a week so that I can fully enjoy and adjust to this new life of mine as a mom. I really appreciate your patience at this exciting time in our lives.
As I posted about here earlier this year, I’ve been really into Instagram lately. It’s such a great way to keep my eye looking for interesting ways to shoot and capture my daily life, even when I don’t have my “big camera” with me. Plus, it has a social feature to the app which makes it really fun to share images with my friends and also to see what they’re up to. I love the uniformity of the square images on the app. I usually shoot at least a couple images a day, so it’s fun to get them all together every now and then to view a quick snapshot of my life and the things I’ve seen.
Here are a few of my favorite images that pretty much sum up my April so far…
1. The amazing sunset we saw on the beach one night while celebrating my good friend’s birthday with a beach bonfire. Such a fun night! Looking forward to more bonfires with that group.
2. Shadow Bump Self-portrait. Still have the bump and love finding new ways to document this exciting time in my life.
3. Painting a little something for baby’s room. Trying to keep going with creative projects while I’m taking it easy on work projects during this maternity leave.
4. The baby room almost done! I wanted to keep it white, airy and fresh with bright pops of color throughout. Still have a few little things to add, but it’s mostly ready for our baby girl. We found that dresser and refinished it ourselves using an awesome aqua paint and miscellaneous colorful knobs I found at Anthropologie, on Etsy and at a local antique store. It’s already my favorite room in our house.
5. A reminder of some truly perfect weather we had here in LA this month. Today and the past few days it’s been a little rainy and cloudy, but this day was beyond gorgeous and I drove around doing all my errands with the windows down. Looking forward to more days like that soon!
My username on Instagram is heatherkincaid. Follow me if you’re have the app, too! It was previously just for iPhones, but recently became available in the Android Marketplace as well. Happy instagramming!
Yes, I’m technically on maternity leave. But this past weekend some friends of mine came over and one of them brought along her beautiful baby boy Davey. I had been meaning to take some portraits of this little guy since he was born (nearly 5 monhts ago!), so we finally made some time to get together and take them at our new place. Turns out, our nursery is the perfect photo studio thanks to the amazing light it gets during the day.
Davey is the sweetest baby and spending time with him makes me even more eager to finally get to meet our little one… any day now! Here are my favorite images from our short afternoon session. I have too many favorites thanks to all of his awesome expressions.
Davey and his mom.
He’s such a happy, sweet baby!
He’s scooting around quite well already…
Sometimes he needs his head to help him crawl…
There’s something babies love about their feet…
This one is one of my favorites.
Playing with Auntie Donna.
I kept hearing how much babies love this Sophie toy. I got one as a baby shower gift so I decided to try it out with Davey. He was totally fixated…
After a bit, it was time for a bottle and nap.
And this is how he woke up about 30 minutes later. Love him!
