Lydia's One Year session

For Lydia's One Year session, we had to start with "the blue dress", as we call it in our family. Becky's mother, all of her sister's and our oldest daughter have all worn this dress for their One Year sessions, so it's been a tradition for a while. We also chose a fun dress, as a change from the tradtional look of the blue velvet.

Meeting Ida

Today, Appleby Photography had the honor of photographing Ida Wyman. Ida is a photographer, herself, having started in the craft when she was a teenager back in the 1940's. I think she could be described as a photojournalist, as many of her images captured Americana. Ida shared some of her fantastic black & white photographs with me today, including many that dated to the beginning of her career in the 40's and 50's. At our session today, we captured Ida with her daughter, Nancy, and her granddaughter, Heather. I'm sure Ida has many wonderful stories that I hope to hear someday!

Lydia is Walking!

Finally! Lydia started pulling up and cruising on furniture when she was 6 1/2 months old. We thought for sure that she would be an early walker. This just goes to prove that children do not care about impressing their parents or about bragging rights. Now that she turned a year old yesterday, Lydia took 11 steps. I wish I could share the video clip for proof! Our peanut weighed in at 17 pounds and 7 ounces (4thth percentile) at her one year well-check today, but she is 29.25 inches tall (50th percentile), so she is "long and lean". We will be doing her birthday portrait session soon, but we wanted to share a couple of images from her February session. Look how big she is getting!