My Heart is Smiling: Nine months old

My little angel baby is already nine months old. I cannot believe it. Evan is already 3/4 of the way through his wonderfully precious first year of life and time is just a 'rollin. I'd love it if I could slow down time for just awhile or find a way to bottle him up, just as he is right now, for a special treat to pull out when he is all grown up and refuses to snuggle with me anymore (I secretly hope that this never actually happens . . . although, I'll admit, I'm a naive mommy). I just adore his stage right now and can't hardly believe that we'll be celebrating his first Thanksgiving, first Christmas and first birthday in only a few short months. Seems like I was just enormously pregnant for the holidays last year and here we are, celebrating them again already!

I vividly remember the day we learned that we were to be blessed with another little angel, and it seems like only moments ago. In keeping with our tradition, Dan was actually the first to find out that we were expecting (he read the result on the pregnancy test and I simply looked directly up at his face, rather than down at the stick, to determine the results). I'll never forget his expression for each of the three times that that beautiful 'pee-soaked' stick indicated that a baby was in our future. Magical moments, for sure.

Given my love for photography and my obsession with having a ba-zillion photographs documenting every move my children make, I decided that it was time to stop paying other photographers for every milestone and that I should take ownership of Evan's nine months photo session myself. So while Owen took his 4+ hour nap this afternoon (what an awesome sleeper, he is:), Drew, Evan and I headed outside on a gorgeous Sunday evening and enjoyed some beautiful natural golden light.