Just spent a great holiday weekend with this boy!
Outdoor haircut/frozen berry snack time:

Miss him already – but only a few more weeks till we get together to celebrate his second birthday! ♥
Posted in Babies, Children, My Family, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, Cleveland baby photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota photographer on July 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Just spent a great holiday weekend with this boy!
Outdoor haircut/frozen berry snack time:

Miss him already – but only a few more weeks till we get together to celebrate his second birthday! ♥
Posted in Babies, Children, Families, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, family photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on April 25, 2011| 1 Comment »
It seems like 5 minutes ago that we met our friends’ little Sienna when she was just 6 days old. Actually, it kind of feels like 5 minutes ago that we met her big sister Summer, who is 2.5! Now Sienna is already 4 months old – and still really, really cute.
When we first arrived at their house, Sienna spent some time snoozing on J while Summer showed off her new swingset and iPad2:

Then Sienna woke up and showed off her smile!

And we took some sister photos of these two adorable girls:


How amazingly mischievously sweet is this expression?!

Lastly, the girls played dress-up – Sienna as a tiny Easter bunny and Summer as a fairy (with errands to run)!

Such a fun Saturday afternoon with this crew! 🙂
Posted in Babies, Children, Families, My Family, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, Cleveland photographer, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on April 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
E and Remy have developed an adorable little friendship over E’s last several visits to FL. E now even has a name for Remy (“Hem”) and talks about him a lot – and by talks about him, I mean he reminisces with sounds, signs, and pointing. He’s not quite on full sentences yet. And Remy is preparing to be a big brother, being so sweet to E, calling him “Baby Efan,” holding his hand as they go places, and protecting him from other kids who try to steal his Thomas toy. They’re crazy cute on their own, and put them together… adorableness ensues.
Here they are, two of my favorite subjects:

And no visit with E can be complete without at least a mini photo shoot, so here are some shots of this very handsome and quickly growing-up 20-month-old, showing off his amazing Cleveland-white legs in his FL shorty shorts:

The two shots that make me crazy to look at…

E and his BFF (oh, and mom) checking out the wild squirrels:

One last shot – Sweet little Rem:

Those two boys make me very happy. Lots of cuteness. 🙂
Posted in Babies, Families, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, family photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on March 28, 2011| 1 Comment »
Just a few months ago, we met Madeline for the first time when she and her parents visited us from NY. Last week, Maddie’s cousin Noah, along with his parents and grandparents, got away from the cold dreariness that is March in the northeast to enjoy some warm sunshine in Sarasota. I loved seeing the resemblance in the two cousins – They even made similar noises!
Noah is really adorable, and we all had a fun time taking some shots around the beach before the little guy got sleepy. 🙂
Here’s the whole crew:

And the sweet boy, being a sport laying in the sand:

Excited to see everyone again in June when we finally make our way to visit NY!
Posted in Babies, Children, Cleveland, Families, My Family, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, Cleveland baby photography, Cleveland children photography, Cleveland family photography, Cleveland photographer, family photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on March 10, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A couple family photos of the Cleveland crew enjoying the beautiful March FL sunshine. (E kills me in that hat.)

And the boy doing what he loves best, snacking:

Posted in Babies, Children, Families, My Family, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, family photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on March 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »
E’s in Sarasota! 🙂
Snuggle time with J, signing “water” while looking at the ocean, and hoping to see some birds:

♥ ♥ ♥
Posted in Children, My Family, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, beach photography, children photography, family photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota beach photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on January 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
For the 10 days since we’ve been home from Boston, we’ve had visitors, creating sort of an extended holiday celebration – always a great excuse to take some time off to have fun and enjoy each other and Sarasota.
First, Dana and E were here, and even though E was a bit under the weather, we had so much fun. I didn’t realize 17 months (TODAY – Happy 17 Months, E!!) was such a cute age! He understands so much, makes us laugh all day, and is a really sweet little man.
Here he is at a playground, with his eyes looking nothing short of ridiculous:

Before Dana and E left, J’s sister Lauren and her boyfriend came to visit. We took E to the beach on a very breezy, chilly day, and E actually liked it better than when it was warm and sunny!
(All of the following photos were taken with my PEN camera.)
Nokomis Beach with no one else in sight…

Getting some shells with Lauren:

And one of my favorites – E with his mama. I want to kiss that face.

After Dana and E headed back to snowy Cleveland, the weather warmed back up a bit and we spent some more time at the beach, taking some romantic shots of Lauren and Kent:

What a nice way to come home… Now it’s back to reality, although that’s not so bad when it’s 70 degrees in January! Thanks for the great visits, guys!
Posted in Babies, Children, Families, Newborns, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, family photography, newborn photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota newborn photography, Sarasota photographer on January 5, 2011| 1 Comment »
Our good friends Steve and Karin – and their adorable 2-year-old daughter Summer (some photos of Summer in May ’10 here) – just welcomed Sienna Faith to the family. We met the precious, gorgeous little one at 6 days old. We knew they’d have a cute one, and Sienna is scrumptious. Perfect newborn model, too!
Steve had a photo in mind that he really wanted to capture Sienna’s tinyness. Here it is:

Isn’t she edible and so, so pretty?

My favorite family shots… Summer doesn’t quite know what to make of Sienna quite yet, but she does know how to smile for a photo! 🙂 (And Sienna’s little mouth just makes me nuts with how cute it is!)

Congratulations, Karin, Steve, and Summer! We are already in love with Sienna. 🙂
Posted in Babies, Children, Families, My Family, Sarasota area, tagged children photography, Cleveland photographer, family photography, North Port fire station, North Port photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota photographer on December 14, 2010| 1 Comment »
My sister thought it would be fun to bake some treats and bring E to a firehouse when they were here last week since the boy is so into trucks of all kinds. His favorite noise to make is “vroom!” (it sounds something like that), and he gets super excited anytime he sees a fire truck, airplane, train, construction vehicle, and so on. Our friend Kevyn is a North Port firefighter, so we baked a bunch of brownies and cupcakes and headed down to Station 82 – which is a ridiculously awesome, well-equipped, fancy-lookin’ firehouse.
Although E was borderline terrified of Kev’s helmet (which, I have to say, was super heavy and smelled like burnt rubber, so I get it), he loved running around the station and climbing on the truck (and maybe also stealing a cupcake…).
In his glory (he’s making his truck sound in the middle shot):

Practicing his running skills:

Loving life at Station 82:

Thanks for showing us around, Kev!
Posted in Babies, Children, Families, Newborns, Sarasota area, tagged baby portrait photography, children photography, family photography, newborn photography, Sarasota baby photography, Sarasota children photography, Sarasota family photography, Sarasota newborn photography, Sarasota photographer on December 13, 2010| 1 Comment »
Second newborn this week – so cozy on these chilly days. 🙂
This one is Micah Tovi, the little guy (well, not so little – born at 9 pounds!) of Keren, Josh, and big brother Adley (check out Keren and Adley). Micah is so loved, and his grandparents flew in from all over the world to meet him.
Here’s the whole crew. Could they look any happier?

Just like Emma last week, Micah was totally alert almost the entire session. For most of the time, he was content, but he had some fussy moments and needed some calming down from his mama. Is it wrong that I find this really cute?

Now resting calmly while Adley poses with him:

One last shot… just Micah being handsome and wide-eyed:

Mazal tov, Keren, Josh, Adley, and family!