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Practice makes perfect, right? Today I spent nap time practicing some newborn posing. Only thing is, I don't have a newborn so I had to use one of Taylor's baby dolls. And unfortunately, she doesn't move quite like a real baby, but the upside is she doesn't cry or demand to be fed either :)

I find that I love looking at newborn portraits. I think that I would love to take them, too. What I need is some experience with real, live babies to know for sure. (Yes, I have two children, but I didn't get my camera until a month before the youngest was born so I had no idea what I was doing then.) Anyway, a good friend of mine has graciously agreed to let me photograph her newborn soon so I want to be ready. I'm only putting a couple of pictures from my practice session on here so that it won't be too weird if I'm posting "real baby" pics in the same poses soon :)

She has WAY more hair than any newborn I've ever seen!

I love this turquoise bowl. In my family all of the children are traditionally bathed in a blue bowl similar to this one as newborns. There's usually a lot more crying involved :)

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We had a frost here this morning and I managed to get myself out in the cold to snap a few photos of the ice crystals. So neat! These make me love my 60mm macro lens :) and these have zero editing because it's 1am and I'm tired!!

Some small ice crystals.

This is frost on the arm of one of our Adirondack chairs.

Ice crystals on a piece of grass.

And I want to give a shout out to my good friend, Juli, and her new baby Gibson. I got to visit with them for a short time today and love on little Gibs for awhile. He is so sweet! Here's one pic I got to snap today quickly. I hope to get back over soon and capture some more of this sweet little boy. Thanks Jules and congrats!!