A record of Weekly Baby Photo Project: Halfway Point!
Clara is officially six months old today, which means we have reached the halfway point our weekly photo project (you know, the one with the fabric backdrops and photoshopped onesies).
At 12 weeks in, we broke down the “how to” behind the project right here, so this post is simply more of an update – since we have now accumulated another three months worth of pics. Here is a snapshot of the first 25. You can check them all out up close here on Flickr.
It is hard to believe that we have taken 26 weekly portraits already. And thankfully we still look forward to our Friday afternoon appointment with the camera, some fabric, a white onesie, and our model. We worried that we’d regret the weekly decision and wish we opted simply for monthly pics, but we in fact look forward to Friday photo shoots and whatever facial expression adventure Clara will take us on each week. Whether it is yawning…
…deviously twirling an invisible mustache…
…or even breaking out a ballerina costume to celebrate Halloween (pointed toe and all).
And in the affordable but meaningful holiday gift idea category, even though there are still 26 more photos to go before we hit our one year mark, we plan to package the collection-so-far in a little photo album Christmas present for the grandparents (I realize I sort of simply gave away what they’ll find under their tree, but they’ve gotta know it is already coming). And once we amass a full year’s worth of weekly pics, we will do a fancier hardbound book version for everyone (using Shutterfly or Kodak or something).
Oh, and lately we have been thinking that we may carry on the tradition past the one year mark because we are enjoying it so much. But we will likely scale things back to simply monthly photos at that point. We can only afford/use so much fabric after all. And speaking of all those swatches, from a Hands-on quilt to framed art or a fabric bunting, we are so excited to repurpose all of the lively textiles we have been collecting thanks to this little daughter documenting project of ours. Cannot believe our baby girl is already half a year old. They grow up so fast.
