She is really still a baby herself and she already has a baby sister. She will never really know life without her. They will likely be only one year apart in school and I imagine they will share everything. There will be times when they wish the other wasn’t so close, always there but most of the time they will be eachother’s best friend. They say everything you ever needed to know you learned in kindergarten. I think they were wrong; I think you learn everything you ever need to know from your sister. I know I did.

It is almost impossible to believe how fast the past year has gone. He is our last baby, and I think maybe that is why time is slipping away so quickly. His birthday was full of lots of tears for me; something that caught me completely by surprise. And while I love watching him grow, I can’t help but want to slow down the clock. He is becoming a big boy, starting to do big boy things (although he is not even acting like he is ever going to walk) and I am soaking it all in; knowing that in a blink of an eye he will be a man. I am honord to be his mom and will spend every moment absorbing as much as I can.

My dear friend Kristie Serra and I headed down to Ybor the day before his birthday to scout out some fun new locations for some upcoming shoots I have scheduled. We rode the trolley and Kristie was nice enough to take some shots of the two of us together. And of course I had to add in the fun shot of Kristie pushing Brody in the stroller (sorry Kristie). So even though I had grand plans of how I would photograph him for his first birthday, these are the shots that I love.