Number Two

Everett Newborn Photographer

It isn’t often I can drive a new, sleep deprived father to tears of laughter. The kind of laughter where you bend over yourself, hold onto your guts and do the ugly cry. This rare event did, however, happen last Saturday! Colin and Molly brought baby Radley out to the studio for his newborn session. Another interesting point, Radley is my oldest newborn every at 8 weeks old (he decided to show up a few weeks early).

Towards the end of the session, we were working on family shots. Colin and Molly elected to have Radley go au naturale (my preference). This includes the new parent cradling their baby just so and covering up all the bits. I warned Colin and Molly ahead of time that their son may choose to do a number one or a number two while they were holding him and IF that happened they should NOT drop the baby in the instinctual desire to throw their hands up to avoid…contact. Can you see where this is going?

Colin went first. No problems. Then… it was Molly’s turn. The pose was perfect, so snuggly and warm and… uh-oh. Yep. All of the sudden Molly exclaimed “OH MY! SOMETHING is coming OUT!!!” and went to lift her hands… and I grabbed Radley and there was… it. Everywhere.

And Colin was behind us crying like a little girl bent over in fits of laughter. SO great. That is one for the memory books, y’all!