11th on the 11th....(my 211th post)

ANOTHER SNEAKPEAK FROM THE RECENT "just babies" PROMO Just for fun, comment and tell me if you recognize this little guy!

I was going to post this photo last night. I want to post a few images from the spring promo that took place on the 2nd. I want to post an image or two over the next few days as I start trying to do some catching up around (now that LSU finals are over)! Last night when I realized that this post would be my 11th post for May and that tomorrow (now today) would be the 11th, I decided to save it for today so that I could call it the 11th on the 11th. How ironical when I realized that it was my 211th post on this blog too! So this post of this handsome little guy is my 211th post to post since I started blogging for Jami Ainsworth Portraits and it is the 11th post of the month posted on May the 11th. So maybe today my lucky number is the 11th!

~~jami~~

BOYS CAN BE BEAUTIFUL TOO...

SEE WHAT I MEAN... Michael and Nicholas (above image)

Nicholas...

walking several months before his first birthday...

Can you say handsome...

Babies always love to eat the grass and clovers. This little guy was no exception as you can see here. I think that is clover flower in his mouth.

What a beautiful face!

pat-a-cake...

I haven't been able to work much the last few weeks. I have been on Mimi Duty and as some of you may know, my little sweetheart requires lots of my time when she is around. Today I was planning on doing lots of work from blogging to editing to housework, but my body had different ideas. I woke up with one of the worst headaches. After all the MD appointments that I had attended this year (while I am suppose to be working and getting re-organized), it looks like I will be making more if these headaches continue. I don't know if they are migranes are maybe hormonal related. I've done research, but I feel like the only way I will know for sure is try to Migrane meds and if they don't do it I am leaning toward the later. After sleeping the first half of these day in efforts to deal with this pain and since the naseau is better, I thought I would do some of the work that I want to do rather than what I need to do...sometime it is easier to do those things when I feel so yucky like this...though now I am beginning to feel worse again. So who knows.

So back to the blog post, I hope you enjoy these images of these little guys and if I can stand it it may do a few more posts today that I have in mind.

Thanks for viewing.

~~jami~~

MY LITTLE SWEETHEART and PORTRAIT RECOMMENDATIONS

MY LITTLE SWEETHEART, NATALIE POOH!

A recent image (October 1, 2007) of Natalie, before she had her first hair cut...

AGES THAT I RECOMMEND FOR FORMAL PORTRAITS FOR INFANTS: I recently had someone to email requesting images of a 5 month old. I could probably dig a little deeper to find some 5 month...but most would be 4 mos. or 6 mos. I recommend babies to be photographed at intervals of milestones rather than age.

• NEWBORN 5 days to 3 wks. (preferably the younger the better)
• HOLDING HEAD UP (for a long period of time) while on tummy... 3-4 mos.; but usually closer to 4 mos.
• SITTING UP (w/o aid and also for long period of time) 6-8 mos., but usually closer to 7 mos.
• STANDING UP (with or w/o aid) this is usually close to first birthday thus make a great one-year/birthday portrait session

THE FIRST IMAGE IN THE GROUP OF POSTS IS A PRETTY RECENT PHOTO OF NATALIE, MY GRANDDAUGHTER, MOST PEOPLE WHO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY BUSINESS KNOW ABOUT HER. SHE IS MY LITTLE SWEETHEART...HER POPPA'S LITTLE PRINCESS. RECENTLY, I WAS WORKING ON SOME OLDER IMAGES OF NATALIE FOR A SPECIAL PROJECT...THESE OLDER IMAGES ARE ABOUT THE AGE OF THE ABOVE REQUEST. NATALIE IS ALMOST 6 MONTHS OLD IN THESE. THIS WAS MY FAVORITE TIME TO PHOTOGRAPH HER...I WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH MORE FILES TO ADD LATER. IT WAS MY FAVORITE AGE BECAUSE SHE WAS STRONG ENOUGH TO SIT UP, BUT NOT ROLLING FAST OR CRAWLING YET! ONCE THEY GET MOBILE...LIFE CHANGES FOREVER AS YOU KNOW IT!

Natalie: 9 mos.

I just realized she was older in the photo when I was going to list the age. I noticed it because the pink onsie with the cotton logo was purchased in Memphis at annual farm and gin show. It is always the first weekend in March. Thus I knew she was older than 6 months because she was 7 mos old the first time we went after she was born.

I did photograph Natalie at the usual recommended time frame, but I found there wasn't enough time between sessions to get images edited, ordered and back before the next age. This was actually part of her 9 month portrait. I never really finished editing these because I did her birthday portrait with her eating her cake for her invitations for her first birthday party a few weeks later (about 6 weeks before her first birthday). So these were put on the back burner, because of the party plans and next the formal one-year portrait that we did in Hot Springs, Arkansas, because we happen to be there on a gin trip/vacation trip. I will have to post some of those soon too.

Another 9 month image!

ANOTHER ONE: I love my flower babies!
I have played with some of the 9 month portrait images, but I never order wallets, 5x7 and 8x10 for family because I did those of the birthday session so soon afterwards. They are also some of my favorites images and ideal age to photograph her. She learned to sit very early...sitting really good by 5 mos., but she was a little later on the crawling and rolling which gave her a larger window of the ideal age to photograph an infant. Babies do learn things at such different rates...some babies (I think mind did) will learn to roll before sitting and even some learn to crawl before sitting.

This one is actually from one of several sessions that I did at 6 mos. THE ABOVE IS IMAGE IS ONE OF MOMMY'S FAVORITES TOO. I DO THINK I DID DO SOME WALLETS OF THIS ONE FOR MY WALLETS PORTFOLIO THAT I KEPT ON HAND WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER TO SHOW OFF MY LITTLE SWEETHEART!

I hope you enjoy view these images of Natalie. I am sure you won't enjoy them as much as I do, but who could resist falling for that beautiful and even that cute little bottom!---Jami