Jiaxing Shanghai, China. Newborn, Babies, Children and Family Portrait and Commercial Photographer
This precious baby was all smiles for me during this newborn session. Hard to believe he is about to celebrate being 100 days old. And he is still as smiley as ever.
While my previous post was of a newbie who arrived just after our return from the US, this little spud arrived just before our trip to the US. Another case of good timing – I am so glad I was able to capture him before leaving China!
Had the privilege of photographing this handsome young fellow last weekend. His timing was perfect — first, arriving right after my return to China, so I could catch him at 11 days old. Then his parents said he was up quite a bit the night before. Perhaps not so fun for mom and dad, but it allowed him to sleep beautifully through his first photo shoot, and allowed me to capture everything right before a big thunderstorm hit!
And I love the little mohawk. So nice to meet and spend time with you and your family, London.
September 2, 2011 - 1:46 pm - Love the sneak preview! So excited to see the rest. Thanks again, Anita!
Yes, it has been a while. Life has been full. Not sure I am ready for summer to end. We spent the past couple months in the US with family and friends. We traveled to the West Coast, East Coast, South, and Midwest. Perhaps a bit ambitious with three young ones – but we survived and had a lot of great times. So keeping up with this blog has taken the sidelines to just keeping up with life.
But we are long overdue for an update. So thought I’d start with an updated family portrait, now that we’ve grown by an extra two feet.
November 2, 2011 - 12:13 am - Excellent ! Not only the picture is so creative, but also can feel the love surrounding 5 of you, good effort!
August 31, 2011 - 12:02 pm - love this portrait! nice choice of clothes, too.
August 31, 2011 - 9:17 am - LOVE it. Love the new chunky two legs!
August 28, 2011 - 10:03 am - what a good picture :-p
August 26, 2011 - 12:05 am - love it. :) so cute.
a partial glimpse at my “kaykay”
fearless, explorer, determined, active, resourceful…
whenever we walk this stretch in our neighborhood, she exclaims “钓鱼! 钓鱼!” (fishing! fishing!) we find a fallen willow tree branch, she takes it and proceeds to “fish”. (thankfully) she has yet to fall into the water, but has no qualms about going right up to the edge. similarly, i admire the way she goes at most things full force, with no fear.
on a more superficial note, this was also the first time i got her hair up into pigtails. a new look for her. =)
May 16, 2011 - 10:15 pm - love the one where she's squatting and looking up... and the pigtails! waiting for the time when I can start "girlifying" serena's hair :)
May 13, 2011 - 8:39 am - Love that fearless and exploratory personality. She definitely holds her own ground. Yep for the pigtails !!
when our oldest, hannah, was first born, everyone asked and analyzed who she looked like more – me or luke.
when isabella was born, everyone asked and analyzed who she looked like more – hannah or kaylah. mom and dad are now completely out of the picture.
tried to reenact one of kaylah’s newborn photos with isabella. (K is on the left, I is on the right) so what do you think? do they look alike?
on a separate note, there’s an amazing giveaway going on over here. besides the fact that giveaways are just plain fun, i also enjoyed getting inspiration from the many talented vendors listed. go take a look.
June 17, 2011 - 9:54 am - WOW! i seriously didnt know they were different children until i read further.
May 13, 2011 - 8:47 am - Such a great comparison! They sure have the same facial features.
May 7, 2011 - 7:40 am - I thought it was the same baby!!
Look who turned 5 last week.
At the age of five, she…
… has her own sense of style.
…loves pink – always picks the pink set of dinnerware, refuses to share it with her sister.
…has developed quite the love of princesses – she plans to live in a castle when she grows up and wants a tail like Ariel for her 6th birthday (she thinks ahead a lot).
…will automatically translate what she hears in Chinese into English or vice versa, depending on who she is repeating it to
…is very sentimental – i wonder where she gets it from…
…is generally very timid, but willing to hike mountains and climb along rocks in a creek to catch shrimp
…loves her family, traveling, hotels, the swimming pools in the hotels, drawing, craft projects, road trips, the snacks she gets to pack for road trips, dancing around, and even photoshoots (most of the time)
…our beloved first daughter and so excited to turn 5.
(the sign she is holding says “5 years old” plus her birthdate… my standard mugshot set up for these milestones)
People ask me how it is taking care of three kids. It’s kind of like this…
The other day, it was a nice day out. I successfully got the 2 little ones all ready to go out and pick up big sister from the school bus stop on time. And i thought after picking her up, we could take a nice stroll around the neighborhood. And the spring flowers are out, and we have been talking about taking pictures of them. So i grabbed my camera along with 2 kiddie cameras. We pick up big sister, walk a few minutes, and stop at a nice tree to start to take pictures. All is well. Curious neighbors immediately come up to us and ask questions about the girls. I try to answer as I click. click. 2 shots with my camera. Then – big sister is crying. She tripped going down a small incline, face hit the sidewalk, mouth is bleeding, (thankfully) hasn’t choked on the sucker that was in her mouth.
So we quickly pack up our things and head home. Big sister ends up with a nice fat lip that scars up the next day. Nice stroll lasted a good 5-7 minutes, perhaps, and no leisurely picture taking as envisioned. But I did manage those 2 quick shots shown above.
So life feels kind of like that right now – you never know what could happen. Changing, adjusting, or scrapping plans at any given moment. And moments – both the good and the bad – can be very fleeting. Kind of like those spring flowers. But beautiful, nonetheless. Kind of like those spring flowers.
Went strawberry picking earlier this week. This has started to become a happy annual tradition. We picked almost 10 pounds of strawberries… and probably had almost as much in our tummies. Last year, kaylah was still strapped in the bjorn. This year, she got to join in on the fun too, and ate the most strawberries out of all of us (while isabella was strapped in the bjorn). It was a beautiful day to be out and to enjoy the nearby countryside. I had fun playing with my macro lens too.
We’ve since had strawberry shortcake, strawberry smoothies, strawberry ice cream, and just plain fresh strawberries. Yum.
We will be sad when strawberry season ends (soon). But my friend has promised to invite me to whatever other seasonal fruit-picking outing they go on. I hear Jiaxing peaches are delish.
May 27, 2011 - 6:15 pm - Did you guys end up making strawberry jam? how'd it tur out?
Thought I’d take a break from the newborn photos and show some of my older two. I have mentioned before here that I took up a personal photo project last year with another friend to make an ABC Book for my girls.
Well, I finally did finish it and am so happy that I did. Aside from it just being a fun way to go through your ABCs, I love how it captured my girls through the course of a year – things they liked, places we went to, particularities of whatever stage they were in. There is a story behind each picture.
I printed it through Asukabook, who did an amazing job. And I was surprised, flattered, honored, when they made it their Book of the Month in January. Thanks Asuka! If you head over to their site, you can see the complete book. (i.e. here are a lot of images to make up for all the blog entries i have wanted to post but never did)
I also had smaller versions printed and sent to all the grandparents for Christmas, and it was a huge hit. A perfect brag book. I think they’ve all memorized the book by now. =)
And I am realizing time really does go by much faster the more kids you have. Can’t believe it’s almost April, and I am blogging about a January occurrence. And we one quarter into 2011 and I am still writing about 2010. Yet for some reason, I still fool myself into thinking I will catch up on everything eventually…
April 6, 2011 - 10:36 pm - love the abc book! Such a cute idea for kids :)
more images of our little one, 11 days old here.
March 31, 2011 - 10:12 am - She is so BEAUTIFUL! Can't wait to meet her in person this summer :) ... And Grandpa Warns dropped off the birth announcement today - absolutely gorgeous.
by anita
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