November 3rd, 2009 by Overallgirl

Well, yesterday our photographer friend Wendy came over to take Nolan’s newborn photos. Usually these are artistic photos of newborns fast asleep in creative positions. I surmised this was rather unlikely to happen with Nolan as he is a feisty little guy. Nolan has been taking a long 3 hour nap mid-morning for a few days now, so I hoped perhaps yesterday would be the same. Mistake #1- never think babies will do the same thing they’ve done before. Their job is to always do something you’re not expecting. I had a feeling that he would somehow know something different was going on and the performance pressure would prove to be a little too much. Indeed, as soon as Wendy arrived and I gently picked him up out of the bassinet where he had started napping not too long ago, he woke right up…and tears followed not too long after. The highlight of the photo shoot was towards the end when we tried to quickly slip off his diaper for those coveted naked shots. On our white couch Wendy placed her beautiful white fleece blanket, and topped that with a smaller piece that she crocheted herself. We placed him on top of that and Wendy started to take a few photos while he was still not crying. Next thing we know….an all too familiar sound to our ears came…I guess Nolan was so comfy sitting on Wendy’s blanket and crochet he decided to release his bowels. We weren’t sure if we should just leave him for a second and take a few more pictures before he started crying or lift him off right away- while we were debating, more of that all too familiar sound started and that made the decision easy- get a diaper on that little bum and fast!

Poor Nolan was not the happiest camper yesterday, but he made it through the day and today he is feeling much more relaxed.