Graham's Newborn Pictures

I'm a little behind on posting these (December was a crazy month), but here on a few of the pictures from Graham's newborn photo shoot. Gina Guthrie took these at our house, and I think they turned out really well. She was amazing to work with, and seriously took about a million pictures. He started to get hungry and fussy during a few of the shots that I really wanted to turn out, that didn't as much as some of the others (the one of him in the Utah hat and shoes that my mom made, and the one of him in the basket with the blue and yellow blanket that she also made), but I guess you can't expect a one week old to cooperate all the time! I hadn't realized how much he'd changed, but looking back on these now, he really has. It's so sad because I want him to stay a newborn forever (not sure I should admit this but I nearly cried when his umbilical cord stump came off - but I'll blame that on the hormones instead of me being a crazy mother. Though I am totally afraid now of how I'll act when he starts kindergarten - or worse, when I go back to work in a few weeks), but I admit that it's also so fun to see him grow up. He smiled at me for the first time yesterday and it melted my heart.

I was telling my sister today how I used to hate when people said things like 'I love you more everyday,' as if the days prior they didn't love them as much as they could have. But I get it now...I really love Graham more everyday. I loved Graham as much as I had the capacity to love the day he was born, but somehow my love for him has gotten even deeper since that day. It's like in 9th grade science class when you learn that the universe, which is everything, is expanding....it shouldn't make sense because you'd think that something would have to expand into something else in order for it to get bigger. But somehow, it just works. So my love for Graham is like the universe. One cheesy metaphor for sure, but that's how I think of it.