Meet Piper!!

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 You know you also feel old when your first cousin whom you grew up with playing dolls and chasing boys is a grandma!  Karen's daughter, Whitney, had her first baby!  This is Piper and I had the privilege of taking some pictures of her while in for a visit.  It was quite a photo shoot!  This was my first one with a little infant and let me say, it is one for the records!  

What these pictures do not tell you is the first 30 minutes she was awake and wide awake!  So no, I could not get the sleeping baby on a red chair that I wanted.  Nor could I get the curled up naked baby asleep on the little stool on her belly.  Piper was not sleepy and she is all arms and legs and not interested in curling up!  So we changed headbands (the headbands are a must for a bald baby and the bigger the flower, the better says Whitney) and decided to get a few of her laying in the field on a soft cream colored blanket after Whitney finished giving her a bottle.  Not only are we waiting for Piper to eat and chill, we are also being eaten alive by bugs and sweating in the humidity from the rain we had earlier, oh, and wet from the tall grass.  But we had a mission and by golly, we weren't finished!  

So Piper finished eating and we settled her on the blanket.  I began taking more pictures, really good ones, and then she glazed over.  Yes, what I mean is, she had "the look."  The happy expressions baby get when they are about to unload their lunch and feel very happy.  Next thing we know, we are not only sweating and sticky and wet, we are now those three plus trying to hold up a baby in the air and wipe her down from dirtying everywhere, including on the beautiful blanket.  UNBELIEVABLE.  And one time was not enough I might add.  Fortunately, Whitney had packed plenty and we worked right past this little fiasco and went right back to taking pictures.  In the end, it was hysterical and we all had a good laugh!  

On a side note, I found out yesterday, Piper was admitted to the hospital for high fever and they were concerned about staff infection.  Praise the Lord when we heard she has a urinary tract infection instead and is being released to go home today.  It was a scary 24 hours waiting on lab results but relieved, especially when she is still so tiny.  Little babies bring so much joy .....