This little darling was considerate enough to wait until we got her mama’s maternity photos done before making an appearance. Welcome to the world, Reese Emery! You’re as beautiful as we knew you would be.

Katie and Derek are the kind of people who were meant to be parents. They are kind and funny and smart, and exactly the type of people you’d choose as your own parents, if you could choose.

Baby Lee didn’t get to choose, but lucky boy, someone chose them for him.

They drove all the way down to Baton Rouge to meet their son, knowing they were getting closer by the mile to parenthood. And they drove straight through, 20 hours, back to Wisconsin. They just wanted to get him home.

And here they are, a family.

I met baby Lee at my studio, where I do most of my natural-light newborn sessions.

We got some very sweet images, but really it’s hard not to get a good photo of this boy. Did you get a look at him?

Still, something wasn’t quite right. He just couldn’t get settled.

So we drove to Katie and Derek’s lovely house a few blocks away. They thought it was maybe the car ride that settled him down. I thought it was that he was finally where he wanted to be: Home.

Congratulations, Katie and Derek, on your beautiful son.

Get a look at that head, will you? Sweet little baby Wyatt had the most perfectly round, bald baby head I’ve seen in a long while. I couldn’t resist rubbing the top of it a few times. I think it was good luck.

He was just a doll through the entire session and his mom and I had fun chatting about nursing, baby poop, little boys, and all kinds of mom stuff.

This was our mutual favorite from the session:

This adorable antique baby scale is a new addition to my studio, and as soon as Wyatt’s mama arrived she said, “Oh, we have to get some photos of him on there!” Once he was sound asleep we just put set him on it, curled up chubby legs and beautiful round head and all, and it was perfect. She was actually jumping for joy she was so excited — but quietly, so as not to wake the baby. I think this photo would be perfect for baby announcements, or even as a sweet print for the nursery.

I loved this exhausted pic from the end of our session. He was like, “Haven’t I done enough for you people? Did you see that baby scale picture?”

Thank you so much, Wyatt and mama, for coming to visit me. It was so nice to meet you!