Same, but different

It's monday evening, my partner took our baby (well, toddler) for a stroller walk and I finally take a break from baby duties to sit down and edit some photographs. My partner sends me a voice mail. "I thought you would want to know that Makwa put on a pull-up diaper all by themself for the first time, and is really into doing-up their stroller harness to" my reaction to hearing this was one of full endearment, as my baby navigates the world, and their little body and all the new things they can do, when the voicemail ended with this " They are growing up SO fast.". And then my heart sank a little bit. Oh, my baby is putting on pull up diapers already. Only a couple of weeks ago we finally got rid of our diaper change table. And now this?

As i'm editing newborn photographs tonight, i'm thinking about how I was in the newborn phasenot too long ago. My baby turned 2 in february, and i've been going through all the photos and most certainly all the feels! I took so many pictures, and I am so glad I did because it feels like a blur, especially that first year. Can you relate? I do wish I had more professional photos taken, but I could not afford it. And that's a big part of why I got into maternity photography.

Growing up, my dad was a multi faceted artist, with one of his mediums being analog photography. We have so many artsy photographs of us growing up, and ive always been drawn to phtography myself. I received my first digital camera when I was 18, and eventually switched to iPhone photography. I traveled most of my twenties, which made it impossible for me to carry around a fancy camera, thus why I used my phone. Finally, in my mid thirties, after having a baby and yearning to be around that newborn phase longer, I decided to take up photography seriously. I bought a professional DLSR camera, and prayed for beautiful mothers and babies to come into my life to be photographed, documented, and seen.

I do think I got off track, but what i mean to say is that while some things remain the same, it all feels so different. Babies grow, mothers grow, our hearts grow. And where we invest our love, this too shall grow.

Same, but different.

Thank you for reading this blog. This one comes straight from my heart, mixed with all the feels of growing.

To my clients, thank you for being a part of this journey with me, and allowing me to capture pieces of yours as well. It is my biggest honour to document your little growing ones.