My Pictures of Avery

     I tried taking pictures a couple of times of Avery.  I wasn't terribly thrilled with my first attempt. I wanted to do some cute little naked newborn ones of her, but every time I got her naked she woke up.  I think it was too cold.  A few of them turned out sort of cute.  But I don't expect anyone to ask for my copyright release if I take them to get developed.
These were taken Nov. 30, when Avery was 11 days old:

     The next pictures I took after my mom took those fabulous family pictures of us.  We didn't do any individual ones of Avery since she was too young to sit by herself.  So I borrowed some cute baskets from a friend and dressed her back up in the same outfit.  As a disclaimer, I'd like to say that I knew the lighting wasn't very good for these pictures when I went out to take them.  It was already a little too dark.  But I didn't want to wait another day because I was hoping to use one of these pictures in our Christmas card and I wanted to get the cards ordered right away.  We were buying them from Costco and I wanted to make sure they were going to be ready by the time we drove through on our way to Audrey's baptism so we could pick them up.  I didn't love how they turned out though so I ended up using one of my pictures from Nov. 30.  Maybe with the help of Photoshop we could make these useable. (I think I just issued a challenge to my father!)
     These pictures were taken Dec. 5 and Avery was 16 days old:

 

     I also took a picture of Avery on Dec. 4 with her beautiful blanket made by my friend Cassie's mom, Doreen Patrizio.  She has crocheted one of these beautiful blankets for every one of my kids and they are treasures.  I wanted to make sure to get a picture of Avery with her new blanket.