You may remember Avery from her mom’s maternity portraits, or from her newborn portraits.  It’s a funny thing about kids…you have to keep a very close eye on them, because if you even so much as blink, when you open your eyes they’ll be SO BIG!  It has been so much fun to watch Avery grow into toddler-hood.  She’s a very fun, sweet, spunky, and energetic little girl (and adorable, but that much is obvious).  In fact, she’s so sweet, that when I was trying to catch her playing in her natural element, she kept trying to sit in my lap and have me read her a story.  I’m sure she was very confused by my big camera, as usually when we’re together it’s with my 2 little ones, and she gets to play play play!

After we took some pictures indoors, Avery was all too excited to head to the park.  She got all bundled up (but saved time for some loving on daddy), and the 4 of us headed out.  It was a little colder than we were prepared for, hence poor Avery’s watery eyes!  It looks like she might have been crying, but that was not even close to the case.  The cold didn’t bother her one bit, and she was ecstatic to be at the park!  Once she saw the slide, there was no keeping her from it!  She ran, with no fear, to the equipment and slid down the biggest slide she could find.

I had such a fun time photographing this little girl!  She is definitely one of my favorites.  Her parents are pretty cool too!  It doesn’t seem possible that she is almost a year and a half old, but then again, I think kids are their own sort of time warp.  Once they come along, life seems to move at least twice as fast!

Thanks again, Brooke and Scott!  I’m glad you love your pictures!  :)