Baby girl’s 1st photo shoot

I didn’t want to wait too long to take some really nice pictures of our little love bug. One  beautiful May evening Daddy and I took her to the park and took some pictures. We had to work for her to sit still and smile, but in the end we got some great pictures!!

Mama and Daddy weren’t prepared to be in pictures, but we couldn’t resist snapping a few pics of each other with her!

We are so very, very much in love with this little bundle of joy!

I must share a true story about the dress that she’s wearing in these pictures.

I bought this dress in the Summer of 2010, a few months after we started the adoption process. I saw it on a rack in the store and couldn’t resist it. We thought we’d have our girl home by the following summer, after all. I bought a few things here and there when I just couldn’t resist. When my heart felt so empty and I missed this child I’d never met so much… it helped a little bit to buy something for her. After another year passed by and the chances of us meeting our baby girl were getting slimmer and slimmer and the timeline getting longer and longer… one by one I took those sweet little items and put them in a place where I wouldn’t see them. This one little dress was the one that I kept out the longest and although it was like a knife in the heart when I would open this particular closet and see this dress, it gave me a little glimmer of home too. Reminded me that there was a little girl out there somewhere that would one day call me Mama.

When we finally got that phone call and saw the face of our gorgeous little bundle of joy my life changed forever. And once the shock wore off, I started to prepare for my girl. Buying clothes, shoes and hair bows, of course! As I was organizing her closet, I remembered this dress. I got it out and held it as I smiled at how long I’d held on to that dress.

When it came time to take her first good pics, there was no doubt what she would be wearing!