Cameron Joy // 6-Days-New // Waverly, New York

Meet my new little niece / angel baby.
Also known as: the baby who never sleeps. Or maybe more accurately: the baby who refused to sleep during her photoshoot.

Let me say: I am not really a newborn photographer. Nothing against new lil babes – I just don’t shoot them very often! But when I do, I really struggle with giving the lil babe enough time in front of the camera because they always seems to end up in my arms getting oodles of kisses! But, as the time got closer for lil Miss CJ to be born, I was so pumped to know that I would be able to go over to her house & just play with her for as long as I wanted – she’s my niece so it’s a privilege I have as her Auntie.

So, not being the most accomplished newborn photographer, I brushed up on my newborn photography help – I took the old electric heater Derrick & I used to use to heat our first home with [that’s another story for another day] – read up on how to get the babe to sleep & stay sleeping – studied up on my newborn posing – I was ready. Except for one thing: the sleeping part? Yeah, that didn’t exactly go as planned.

Miss CJ decided she was going to be wiiddee awake – almost the whole entire time! What 6-day-old babe does that? We still had a fabulous time – and it just meant that I got lots of images with her eyes wide open! She did eventually fall asleep though – after I wore her completely out! So, I did get a few of the sleeping baby photos which turned out to be my favorites!! We definitely did not have enough snuggling time though – we must remedy that soon!!

It’s no wonder my niece is such a natural beauty – check out her mama!

And she has a handsome big brother too!!