Noah in Neverland.

I think all of you have probably seen the creative mom's photos of her son called"Wengenn in Wonderland" by now. I think the photos of her son posed as everything from a circus clown to a babushka doll have been viewed a million times. If you haven't, you should, check this out.

So I have the greatest and also the most creative friends in the world and they were inspired by this creative mom's photos and threw a baby shower for Noah and me with this theme. I was pleasantly surprised that Noah was so cooperative and let each person set him up for the photo scene they had planned for him. He didn't even protest when he was posed as a baby merman with a pink glittery tail. It was such a fun idea for a baby shower. Which photo is your favourite??

Noah's ark

Picking apples

Merman in a fish bowl

Snowboarding

black, white & pee.

One of the perks of having a newborn is that they can't run away or whine when you want to a take photo of them. My favourite newborn photos are the black and white shots of a newborn in their birthday suit being held by daddy's big strong arms. So since you can learn to do anything on the internet, I read a few blogs about tips for getting good pictures and it said to make sure the baby was fed and asleep and in a warm room and something about lighting but I'm not a photographer so I omitted any technical advice. So yesterday morning, I made sure Noah had been fed, he had been asleep until I took his pajamas off and I figured I'd be done the pictures before he knew he was naked and cold. And as for lighting, well the lights were on in our bedroom. I figured that was as good as I could get. I got Simon to hold Noah in his forearm and before I could even snap a photo, Noah started peeing all over his arm. I actually have a photo where you can see the pee dripping off Simon's arm. The blog did not say what to do when child starts peeing and I was laughing too hard to take pictures but managed to compose myself to take a few good ones.

this is one of my favourite post-pee pictures

So far it had only been a 2 minute photo shoot and since he peed already I convinced Simon to just wipe off his arm and put Noah against his chest and again literally 5 seconds after Noah was on Simon's chest, he peed again! This time the pee didn't stop for almost a minute, I had to run to get reinforcement towels to save our carpets.  So between giggling and mopping up pee, I managed to capture a few more daddy and son moments. I think if Simon wasn't soaked in pee, it would of been more a lovely bonding moment. Ha ha.

So thank you Simon for being such a good sport about it and enjoy these black, white and pee-stained photos.