Cliftonnnn! I photographed this kiddo last year and his parents warned me that he was slow to warm up, but we were BFFs immediately. Something about people that like cats meeting other people that like cats and agreeing to always be friends. Clifton is my buddy. During this session he really enjoyed excitedly showing me things like his smoothie, the cup that he was drinking his smoothie out of, the color of his smoothie, the straw inside the smoothie, etc. He also enjoyed showing me his cat Jackson, who we once again gently pried from his stranger-danger hiding place to excitedly admire before he quickly ran away from us (we’re so sorry JJ, we love you). Clifton also liked having conversations such as:
Clifton: We went on vacation! Me: Where did you go? Clifton: We went on vacation! Me: Yes, but to where? Was there a beach? Were there mountains? Clifton: We went on vacation!
He’s my favorite. It was so nice to see this family again and to to see how much taller Clifton got and how much higher he can jump and that he likes kayaking now. He’s one of the most joyous little kids I’ve met and excited about everything. But mostly cats. And I respect that so much.
I’ve been really excited to photograph these guys since they listed Friday Night Lights as the best TV show and Pearl Jam as the best band on the contact form questionnaire. Then I completely even forgot to talk to them about it because I was too wrapped up in their awesome house and incredibly good looking selves. This family is adorable! Even Mason, the dog, is handsome and well behaved. Hannah and Sydney, the twins, are 3.5 and full of spunk and amazing dance moves. They’re fraternal twins instead of identical, but it’s pretty difficult for me to tell them apart, and if I were their parents, I’d definitely be dressing them as the twins from The Shining for every Halloween as long as they’d let me. They have Whitney Houston Wednesdays, where they dance around their living room to Whitney Houston songs, but they made an exception this week and moved it to Saturday. Adam and Rachel put the twins on their shoulders and then did some sort of synchronized dip like Olympic figure skaters and it was pretty amazing. So amazing, in fact, that I forgot entirely to talk to them about Coach Taylor.
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
At home lifestyle candid family photographer Cary NC
Girl jumping on trampoline
Girl jumping on trampoline
Toddler hugging mom
Family together on couch
Little kid and Halloween candy
Little kid and Halloween candy
Dad helping daughter put on shoes
Little kid walking outside
Little kid walking outside
Family together
Family together
Family together
Little kid walking outside
Little kid walking outside
Little kid walking outside
Family together
Family together
Toddler playing in leaves
Toddler playing in leaves
Family together
Kids playing with sticks
Daughter laughing at dad
Kids playing near pond
Kids laughing with parents
Are my fellow American blog readers prepared to feel really inadequate when it comes to the number of languages you speak? Good! You’ve come to the right place. Meei contacted us a while back to do a family session with her husband and two daughters. They love the age of their girls and wanted to get it documented (and we agree; 1 and 3 are super fun ages!). We knew that Meei is Chinese, and we knew we’d have about a 5% chance of pronouncing her full name correctly, but she was super nice about our American handicap and told us to call her May. We also knew that her husband’s name was William, so we were 100% confident in our ability to pronounce his name (we were right!). But what we didn’t know is that William is actually Dominican! And William speaks Spanish and Meei speaks Chinese! They met while they were living in New York and they speak English to each other! And William speaks Spanish to the kids and Meei speaks Chinese to the kids and the kids respond in Spanish to their dad and Chinese to their mom and English at school and I’m sorry for all the exclamation points but this is so impressive to an American who took 6 years of French class and forgot everything! Holy smokes. We were and continue to be incredibly impressed by these trilingual kids and their parents. Such a cool family. The best part of our job is meeting people from all over the world and hearing about their experiences. So glad this family got to be our clients this year!
