This is my baby.  Well, my first baby anyways, even if he is almost 5 years old. He has been in love with airplanes for years. The other day we made an “airplane world” and gathered every airplane that we could find in the house.  I counted 35, and that is just the ones we could find. I am not the kind of parent to just buy their kid endless toys and stuff that will be thrown away or discarded after an hour. Each one of his planes has been well loved and worth every penny.

Elijah and Amelia have been coming to my shoot locations lately with the babysitter. I just do not want the baby to be away from me for very long, and this way I get to be there for her if she needs me and still practice my art. This was taken after a shoot yesterday. Elijah was feeling a little low. I am sure bc he had to be with a babysitter while his mom tromped off through the woods with other kids. So, after the shoot he wanted me to take his photo. He looked for a piece of shade, sat down, gave me the cutest pose and said “take my picture!.” Which if course I promptly did. And then, as always, we had to take one with his airplane as well.  Classic Elijah. Please excuse the red Gatorade on his face, it ends up that that is REALLY hard to photoshop out.