The day I was due to have dinner at Jess & Simon’s, I got an email from Jess. “Can you please bring your camera gear?” she asked, adding, “I have this feeling it won’t be long now!”
“Sure,” I replied, “but I still think we should do some outdoors…I have this great idea for you in a nice sunny field with your big bump! It’s gonna be AWESOME!! …but sure, we can do some tonight too.”
Well, turns out that motherly instinct was kicking in early! Barely 3 hours after we took these photos, her water broke! There’s a sneak preview of their little bun fresh out of the oven at the end of this post, but for now…the bump!
9 months worth of baby in that bump, and she still looks gorgeous – swollen pregnant cankles and all! Look at those beautiful eyes & crazy cheekbones.
I think this (below) is probably my favourite photo EVER. Yep! Big call but it’s true – when I saw it, I loved it so much I made up a new tag in Lightroom: “OMG AWESOME.”
This is the future (well – current, now that he’s arrived!) nursery. I looove the colour. I was a bit worried about doing all the photos inside in such a small space…because, let’s face it, 9 months pregnant is not exactly compact! But they turned out fab. You’d never know that we were squeezed into a corner of the room!
If you were thinking this will be Jess and Simon’s first baby, you’d be wrong — this is the original, Bella the Fur Baby!
And finally…meet Liam Edward Hanlin. While Jess was pregnant his nickname was Vader (long story) and it’s still taking me a while to get used to calling him by his real name! He’s a tiny little snuggable overload of adorableness. More pics of him to come soon.
Jess and Simon…congratulations on your beautiful little bub!
