The Shelton Family Blog: Baby Viv

Time really has flown by with three kiddos in the mix. I'm not promising that I will catch up or even attempt to cover all that has happened in the last 7 months, but I must hit some highlights! We had the opportunity to get Vivian's newborn photos done by a photographer here in Frisco, Liz Labianca. Holy cow! She was AMAZING! How do you even pick which ones to print??? I am so glad we did them this time around, and I know I will treasure them forever. Here are some of the shots.

This was one of the shots for our Christmas card. Love it!

Their first family photo. This has a funny story that I don't want to forget. These pictures were taken on Monday after Viv's birth the previous Wednesday. We all thought it would be super cute to do a nude shot of the baby with the kids sans shirts. I love the natural look of it, and I wanted a great black and white for above the fireplace. Greyson had been banned from holding the baby since she came home Friday, because he had pneumonia :-(. This was the first time he was able to hold her all weekend, and he was SOOO excited to be the big boy holding the baby. Right when she took this photo, Viv decided she needed to go #2 in a hurry and exploded all over his leg. Oops! Greyson was upset, but we were trying to keep him from fully loosing it so we could take more pictures. He kept saying that the baby "spit up" on him since the breast milk poop doesn't look like the poop he is used to seeing. We decided that we would just go with that story that she spit up since he seemed less upset about it. This picture will always make me think of the time that Vivi "spit up" on her big brother. He was pretty heartbroken about the whole series of events with not getting to hold her the first few days and then the spitting up. He actually was very gun shy and refused to hold her for the first few weeks after that. I was so worried that they wouldn't bond which was absolutely not something I was expecting. I thought that Greyson would instantly fall in love and Hannah would have to work up to sharing Mommy with her. Boy was I wrong. It was the exact opposite, but over the next few weeks, Greyson came around and now they are completely inseparable.